Alfred Bester
Alfred Bester (born December 18, 1913, Manhattan, United States; died 1987), was an American author. Bester is best remembered for The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination. Bester's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame and Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
Alfred Bester’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Alfred
Alfred Bester’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Alfred in the U.S.?
#840
US rank in 2025
~245,153
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
Alfred ranked 42nd among boys and 1,888th among girls in 1913, the year of this birth, with 2,577 American boys and 11 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alfred’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on A (1) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alfred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Alfred apart
Steven Spielberg (1946) and Brad Pitt (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Alfred, according to the stars
Core essence
Alfred is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Alfred 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.
How Alfred wants to be loved
Alfred wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Alfred and watch them fall for you again.
How Alfred creates
How Alfred makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Alfred creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Alfred 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Alfred is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Alfred does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Alfred's birth date. Working below.
Where Alfred sits
Six lines
Alfred’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Alfred Bester
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening: Algol of Perseus, within 1.9° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 68% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.
How unusual Alfred's chart is
Chart pattern score
40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · Mars retrograde · 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
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Alfred Bester's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 18, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Water Ox
Water OxCarries the load without comment.
Alfred Bester was born on December 18, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Alfred Bester's birth date, December 18, 1913, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Alfred’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alfred Bester's date-only chart is Venus opposition Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alfred Bester combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
Alfred’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenusoppositionSaturn0.1° to 1.4° orb
Alfred’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.6° to 1.1° orb
Alfred’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.7° to 2.0° orb
Alfred’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionPluto3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.4° to 5.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 6.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn6.4° to 7.8° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune7.7° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Alfred’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 10°48′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 5°33′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 17°29′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 16°25′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 2°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Venus 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.8°
- Chiron square Saturn 3.0°
Alfred’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Alfred’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 0.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 0.5°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.4°
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- Rahm EmanuelAmerican politician (born 1959)
- Michael BennetUnited States Senator from Colorado since 2009 (born 1964)
- Anna ChlumskyAmerican actress (born 1980)
Born in Ox years
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Also born on December 18
- Steven Spielberg1946
- Brad Pitt1963
- Christina Aguilera1980
- Sia1975
- Katie Holmes1978
- DMX1970
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Debbie GibsonAmerican singer and actress
- Adrian GrenierAmerican actor, director, producer, musician
- Jennifer HudsonAmerican singer, actress, model and spokesperson
Other Sagittarius Ox charts
- Julie HarrisAmerican actress
- Jorge Sánchez RamosMexican association football player
- Gabriel MagalhãesBrazilian footballer (born 1997)
- Patrick BergNorwegian footballer (born 1997)
Other Tidal Storytellers
- Steve SmithAustralian international cricketer
- George RussellBritish racing driver (born 1998)
- Viktor HovlandNorwegian golfer
- Alexandra IgnatovaRussian figure skater (born 2004)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Greg BearAmerican writer best known for science fiction
- Joe MayhewAmerican fan artist, science fiction writer, and librarian
- Jeffrey PriceAmerican screenwriter and producer (born 1949)
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Alfred’s cards
Computed from December 18, 1913. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alfred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q286116 (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.
The same Alfred Bester at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alfred Bester.
Quick answers about Alfred Bester’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alfred Bester?
- Alfred Bester was a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1913, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Alfred Bester's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1913 birth.
- What was Alfred Bester's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alfred Bester's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alfred Bester's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alfred Bester's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
