
Alice Walker
Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944, Eatonton, United States), aged 82, is an American author and activist (born 1944). Walker is best known for The Third Life of Grange Copeland, The Temple of My Familiar and Possessing the Secret of Joy. Walker's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, California Hall of Fame and O. Henry Award.
Alice Walker’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Your match with Alice
Alice Walker’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Alice in the U.S.?
#65
US rank in 2025
~590,106
Americans share it since 1880
1921
its peak year
The SSA recorded 7,102 American girls and 27 boys named Alice in 1944: 38th among girls and 1,284th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alice’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on A (1) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alice’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
The record
What sets Alice apart
J. M. Coetzee (1940) and Tom Hiddleston (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Alice, according to the stars
Core essence
Alice is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Alice is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Alice wants to be loved
Alice wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Alice you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Alice creates
How Alice makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Alice 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: Alice is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Alice 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Alice scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Alice's birth date. Working below.
Where Alice sits
Six lines
Alice’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Alice Walker
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Eatonton 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 Eatonton that night
Computed for 33.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Eatonton at 9 p.m. that evening: Elnath of Taurus, within 9.9° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
Eatonton sits at 33.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.
How unusual Alice's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · Five planets retrograde · No Water planets
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Original, and fine with it.
Alice Walker's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 9, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Monkey
Inventive, restless, funny.
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 2
Listens first, then decides.
Alice Walker's birth date, February 9, 1944, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Alice’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alice Walker's date-only chart is Sun trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
- Alice Walker combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Alice’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° 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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
Alice’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.9° orb
Alice’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.0° to 3.2° orb
Alice’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMarssextilePluto2.5° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.5° to 2.6° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.0° to 5.3° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune5.9° to 6.2° orb
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Alice’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 14°21′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 24°26′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 26°21′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 9°04′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 29°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Mercury 0.3°
- Chiron trine Venus 0.9°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.1°
Alice’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Alice’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.
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Venus biquintile Mars 0.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 1.1°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.1°
More people like Alice
Other screenwriters
- Joe Haldeman1943
- Richard Ford1944
- Eric Idle1943
- R. Lee Ermey1944
- Peter Handke1942
- Craig T. Nelson1944
Born in United States
- Michael ParksPulitzer Prize winning journalist and educator
- Carl BernsteinAmerican journalist (born 1944)
- Wallace ShawnAmerican actor
- Henry ThreadgillAmerican jazz musician (born 1944)
- Stephen GreenblattAmerican literary critic, theorist and scholar
- Richard FordAmerican novelist and short story writer
More charts like Alice’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Travis EtienneAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Chauncey GolstonAmerican football player
- Cameron SkatteboAmerican football player (born 2002)
Born in Monkey years
- Philip Showalter HenchAmerican physician
- David TrimbleFirst Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002
- Robert S. MullikenAmerican physicist, chemist and botanical collector
Also born on February 9
- J. M. Coetzee1940
- Tom Hiddleston1981
- Sócrates1954
- Michael B. Jordan1987
- Bella Poarch1997
- Avan Jogia1992
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Max MeltonAmerican football cornerback
- Luke AltmyerAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Nick FolkAmerican football player (born 1984)
Other Aquarius Monkey charts
- Baba MillerSpanish basketball player (born 2004)
- Scoot HendersonAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
- Hannah StockingAmerican internet personality and actress
- Nusli WadiaIndian businessman (born 1944)
Other Tidal Guardians
- Jeana KeoughAmerican playmate and actor
- Scott PorterAmerican actor
- Sofia PernasMoroccan-American actress
- Cody SimpsonAustralian singer
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Martinus J. G. VeltmanDutch theoretical physicist
- Johann DeisenhoferGerman scientist
- Richard SmalleyAmerican chemist
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Alice’s cards
Computed from February 9, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
2 · Diplomat♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alice’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q215868 (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 Liberty Media for Women, LLC, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alice Walker at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alice Walker.
Quick answers about Alice Walker’s chart
- How old is Alice Walker?
- Alice Walker is 82 years old, born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Alice Walker?
- Alice Walker is an Aquarius: born February 9, 1944, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Alice Walker's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 9, 1944 birth.
- What is Alice Walker's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Alice Walker's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Alice Walker's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Alice Walker's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.







