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Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón (born November 28, 1961, Mexico City), aged 64, is a Mexican filmmaker (born 1961). Cuarón's honours include Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Golden Globe Award for Best Director.

Alfonso Cuarón’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Alfonso Cuarón’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Healer

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

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

#1012

US rank in 2025

~41,579

Americans share it since 1881

1991

its peak year

In 1961, 399 American boys were registered Alfonso — 397th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Alfonso’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

5

Soul Urge · freedom

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on A (1) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

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

Alfonso’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Rose-gold · Silver

The record

What sets Alfonso apart

Anna Nicole Smith (1967) and Alan Ritchson (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Alfonso, according to the stars

Core essence

Alfonso is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Alfonso is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Alfonso needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Alfonso needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Alfonso wants to be loved

Alfonso wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Alfonso even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Alfonso creates

How Alfonso makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Alfonso creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Alfonso is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Alfonso is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Alfonso has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Alfonso's birth date. Working below.

Where Alfonso sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Alfonso

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alfonso

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Alfonso

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alfonso

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Alfonso

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alfonso

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alfonso Cuarón

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mexico City 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 Mexico City that night

Computed for 19.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Mexico City was Algenib, in Pegasus, 78.8° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.

Mexico City sits at 19.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The Moon was at last quarter, 61% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.

How unusual Alfonso's chart is

Chart pattern score

32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Sagittarius Sun

Blunt, cheerful, gone by morning.

Alfonso Cuarón's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 28, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Metal Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Alfonso Cuarón was born on November 28, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 2

Holds the room together.

Alfonso Cuarón's birth date, November 28, 1961, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Alfonso’s chart

Alfonso’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 25° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.3° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 2° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.8° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 4° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun in Sagittarius · 6°16′☉6°Moon in Leo · 19°57′☽19°Mercury in Scorpio · 26°33′☿26°Venus in Scorpio · 21°57′♀21°Mars in Sagittarius · 10°44′♂10°Jupiter in Aquarius · 3°45′♃3°Saturn in Capricorn · 26°14′♄26°Uranus in Virgo · 0°31′♅0°Neptune in Scorpio · 11°58′♆11°Pluto in Virgo · 10°05′♇10°

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

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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

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Alfonso’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableMarssquarePluto0.3° to 1.0° orb

    Alfonso’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° orb

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

  • stableSunsextileJupiter2.1° to 2.9° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus3.2° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto3.3° to 4.3° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn3.7° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMars4.3° to 4.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.4° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus5.2° to 6.3° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.5° to 7.6° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 2°01′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 16°11′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 17°32′ (moves 0.56° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 29°46′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 3°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea trine Uranus 0.7°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.9°

Alfonso’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Alfonso’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus quintile Pluto 0.1°
  • Venus quintile Jupiter 0.2°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.3°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 0.5°
  • Uranus quintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°

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Alfonso’s cards

Computed from November 28, 1961. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The High Priestess

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Healer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alfonso’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28028 (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 Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alfonso Cuarón at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alfonso Cuarón.

Quick answers about Alfonso Cuarón’s chart

How old is Alfonso Cuarón?
Alfonso Cuarón is 64 years old, born November 28, 1961 in Mexico City.
What zodiac sign is Alfonso Cuarón?
Alfonso Cuarón is a Sagittarius: born November 28, 1961, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Alfonso Cuarón's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 28, 1961 birth.
How tall is Alfonso Cuarón?
Alfonso Cuarón is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Alfonso Cuarón's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Alfonso Cuarón's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Alfonso Cuarón's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Alfonso Cuarón's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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