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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.

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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.

Intimate circleWide network
Alice

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alice

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

PrivateExpressive
Alice

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alice

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

PracticalVisionary
Alice

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alice

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 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.

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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

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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Saturn · Trine, 0° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.9° orbMoon fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.1° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.6° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.6° orbJupiter opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2.6° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.4° orbSun in Aquarius · 19°48′☉19°Moon in Leo · 24°32′☽24°Mercury in Capricorn · 26°06′☿26°Venus in Capricorn · 15°16′♀15°Mars in Gemini · 9°57′♂9°Jupiter in Leo · 22°23′ · retrograde♃℞22°Saturn in Gemini · 19°47′ · retrograde♄℞19°Uranus in Gemini · 4°50′ · retrograde♅℞4°Neptune in Libra · 3°55′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Leo · 7°19′ · retrograde♇℞7°

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

  • 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. 1. ♅ Uranus7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  3. 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°

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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

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese 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.

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