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Alexander Rybak

Alexander Rybak (born May 13, 1986, Minsk, Belarus), aged 40, is a Norwegian singer, actor, violinist, composer, pianist. Best-known releases include Fairytales, No Boundaries and Christmas Tales. Rybak's honours include Spellemann Award of the year and First prize of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Alexander Rybak’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Alexander Rybak’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Alexander in the U.S.?

#30

US rank in 2025

~740,668

Americans share it since 1880

1993

its peak year

Alexander ranked 41st among boys and 809th among girls in 1986, the year of this birth, with 10,609 American boys and 207 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Alexander’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on A (1) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Alexander’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Ivory · Blush · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1986, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Alexander apart

Alexander Rybak took the Spellemann Award of the year in 2009, at 23.

Training came by way of Columbia College Chicago and Barratt Due Institute of Music.

The same date carries Lena Dunham and Robert Pattinson. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Columbia College Chicago and Barratt Due Institute of Music
Instruments
guitar, piano, fiddle and voice
Awards
Spellemann Award of the year (2009) and First prize of the Eurovision Song Contest (2009)
Working from
1991
Citizenship
Norway
Languages
English, Russian and Norwegian
Wikipedia editions
72

What the chart says

Alexander, according to the stars

Core essence

Alexander is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Alexander is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Alexander is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Alexander needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Alexander wants to be loved

Alexander wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Alexander like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Alexander creates

How Alexander makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Alexander creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Alexander is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Alexander is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Alexander does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Alexander's birth date. Working below.

Where Alexander sits

Six lines

Alexander’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Alexander

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alexander

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Alexander

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alexander

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Alexander

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alexander

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alexander Rybak

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Minsk on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Minsk that night

Computed for 53.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Minsk at 9 p.m. that evening: Merak of Ursa Major, within 7.1° of the exact zenith.

Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

At 53.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 20% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -7° below the horizon.

How unusual Alexander's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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The quick version

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Alexander Rybak's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 13, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Fire Tiger

Big heart, short fuse.

Alexander Rybak was born on May 13, 1986, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 6

Home is the project.

Alexander Rybak's birth date, May 13, 1986, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Alexander’s chart

Alexander’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 0.8° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.4° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.6° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.6° orbSun flows with Mars · Trine, 3.2° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 4° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 4.8° orbSun in Taurus · 22°16′☉22°Moon in Cancer · 10°16′☽10°Mercury in Taurus · 11°05′☿11°Venus in Gemini · 20°04′♀20°Mars in Capricorn · 19°06′♂19°Jupiter in Pisces · 17°30′♃17°Saturn in Sagittarius · 7°29′ · retrograde♄℞7°Uranus in Sagittarius · 21°30′ · retrograde♅℞21°Neptune in Capricorn · 5°29′ · retrograde♆℞5°Pluto in Scorpio · 5°30′ · retrograde♇℞5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.0° orb

    Alexander’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus0.8° to 2.1° orb

    Alexander’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter1.5° to 1.7° orb

    Alexander’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter2.0° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSuntrineMars2.8° to 3.5° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus3.9° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune4.6° to 6.6° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto4.6° to 6.6° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 5.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 1.3° to 13.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Alexander’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 13°14′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 4°47′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 18°32′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 24°09′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres trine Neptune 0.7°
  • Ceres sextile Pluto 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.9°
  • Eros trine Venus 1.5°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.9°
  • Ceres square Saturn 2.7°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 3.0°

Alexander’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Alexander’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Uranus, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.0°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 0.8°
  • Venus quincunx Mars 1.0°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 1.0°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°

Born the same day as Alexander

2 other people here were born on May 13, 1986, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 53.9°N, Minsk keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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Alexander’s cards

Computed from May 13, 1986. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alexander’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q131259 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Fredrik Arff, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alexander Rybak at Wikipedia, alexanderrybak.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alexander Rybak.

Quick answers about Alexander Rybak’s chart

How old is Alexander Rybak?
Alexander Rybak is 40 years old, born May 13, 1986 in Minsk, Belarus.
What zodiac sign is Alexander Rybak?
Alexander Rybak is a Taurus: born May 13, 1986, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Alexander Rybak's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 13, 1986 birth.
What is Alexander Rybak's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Alexander Rybak's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Alexander Rybak's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Alexander Rybak's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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