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Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson (born August 6, 1809, Somersby, United Kingdom; died 1892), was a British Poet Laureate. Tennyson is best remembered for Idylls of the King, The Lady of Shalott and The Charge of the Light Brigade. Tennyson's honours include Chancellor's Gold Medal and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Alfred Tennyson’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Alfred Tennyson’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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

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Alfred’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Gold

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What the chart says

Alfred, according to the stars

Core essence

Alfred is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Alfred is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Alfred processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Alfred needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Alfred wants to be loved

Alfred 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 Alfred like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Alfred creates

How Alfred makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Alfred builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Alfred is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Alfred is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Alfred runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Alfred's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Alfred sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Alfred

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alfred

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

PrivateExpressive
Alfred

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alfred

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

PracticalVisionary
Alfred

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alfred

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alfred Tennyson

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

Alfred’s birth-night reference starEltaninwarm orange · DracoEltanin, in Draco. A warm orange star, 87.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Eltanin →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 18.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Leo Sun

The room rearranges itself.

Alfred Tennyson's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 6, 1809, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.

Earth Snake

Watches. Waits. Then precisely.

Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6, 1809, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Alfred Tennyson's birth date, August 6, 1809, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Alfred’s chart

Alfred’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Alfred Tennyson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.5° orbMercury grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.1° orbMercury flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.3° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.1° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.8° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 6.9° orbSun in Leo · 13°31′☉13°Moon in Gemini · 19°14′☽19°Mercury in Cancer · 25°54′☿25°Venus in Gemini · 27°54′♀27°Mars in Scorpio · 6°17′♂6°Jupiter in Aries · 24°48′♃24°Saturn in Scorpio · 27°13′♄27°Uranus in Scorpio · 5°48′♅5°Neptune in Sagittarius · 4°07′ · retrograde♆℞4°Pluto in Pisces · 15°25′ · retrograde♇℞15°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus0.2° to 0.7° orb

    Alfred’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurysquareJupiter0.4° to 1.8° orb

    Alfred’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn0.6° to 2.1° orb

    Alfred’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableVenussextileJupiter2.6° to 3.6° orb

    Alfred’s affections open doors for their growth.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.9° orb

    Alfred’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.3° to 11.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 3.2° to 14.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 13°37′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Alfred making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 13°32′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Alfred is read as someone who shows care by providing.

  • ♡ ErosLeo 16°06′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

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

    Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Alfred loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 16°07′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Alfred at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 15°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Alfred that says the unsayable and does not take it back.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Ceres square Sun 0.0°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.4°
  • Ceres sextile Pluto 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.4°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 2.6°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 2.6°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Alfred’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. ☉ Sun5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Venus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts

    disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Alfred is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Alfred’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Saturn · Venus, Jupiter, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 0.7°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 1.9°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 2.0°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alfred Tennyson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Alfred’s cards

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Temperance

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Western zodiac

Leo

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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Gold Au

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Alfred Tennyson, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Alfred’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q173869, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by Julia Margaret Cameron / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alfred Tennyson at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Alfred Tennyson.

Quick answers about Alfred Tennyson’s chart

What zodiac sign was Alfred Tennyson?
Alfred Tennyson was a Leo: born August 6, 1809, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Snake.
What was Alfred Tennyson's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 6, 1809 birth.
What time was Alfred Tennyson born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What was Alfred Tennyson's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 6, 1809 birth date.
What was Alfred Tennyson's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 6, 1809 birth date.
Where was Alfred Tennyson's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Alfred Tennyson's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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