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Allan Temko

Allan Temko (born February 4, 1924, New York City, United States; died 2006), was an American academic. Temko's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Allan Temko’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Allan Temko’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

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

#1013

US rank in 2025

~96,711

Americans share it since 1880

1947

its peak year

The SSA recorded 692 American boys and 5 girls named Allan in 1924: 201st among boys and 5,091st among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Allan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5).

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

Allan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1923, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Allan apart

The Guggenheim Fellowship came in 1957, when Allan Temko was 33.

Study took Allan Temko to University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University.

Wikipedia files Allan Temko under Military personnel from San Francisco, Architects from San Francisco and California State University, East Bay, faculty.

Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931) and Jenny Shipley (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship (1957) and Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1990)
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
4

What the chart says

Allan, according to the stars

Core essence

Allan is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Allan 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.

The vibe

Underneath, Allan needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Allan needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Allan wants to be loved

Allan wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Allan, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Allan creates

How Allan makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Allan 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: Allan is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Allan is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Allan 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 Allan's birth date. Working below.

Where Allan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Allan

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Allan

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

PrivateExpressive
Allan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Allan

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Allan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Allan

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Allan’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 85.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 79.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 4.4° of the exact zenith.

Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States

The death is recorded at Orinda, Contra Costa County in 2006.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Allan Temko: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Allan's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Yod onto Neptune · 1 unaspected planet

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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Aquarius Sun

Ideas first, people second.

Allan Temko's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 4, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Water Pig

Assumes the best. Usually right.

Allan Temko was born on February 4, 1924, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

Allan Temko's birth date, February 4, 1924, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Allan’s chart

Allan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.1° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.2° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.6° orbJupiter grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.1° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.5° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 4° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 4.3° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 4.4° orbSun in Aquarius · 14°38′☉14°Moon in Aquarius · 10°02′☽10°Mercury in Capricorn · 19°10′☿19°Venus in Pisces · 19°45′♀19°Mars in Sagittarius · 10°12′♂10°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 14°33′♃14°Saturn in Scorpio · 2°18′♄2°Uranus in Pisces · 15°42′♅15°Neptune in Leo · 19°08′ · retrograde♆℞19°Pluto in Cancer · 10°41′ · retrograde♇℞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

  • stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Allan’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.5° to 0.7° orb

    Allan’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Allan’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.5° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune4.0° to 5.0° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.1° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars4.2° to 4.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune4.5° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter4.7° to 5.7° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMarssquareUranus5.2° to 5.8° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 17°10′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 5°23′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 24°60′ (moves 0.55° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaPisces 23°19′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 24°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Mercury 2.0°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 2.0°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 2.5°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 2.6°

Allan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mars; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Allan’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Neptune · Mercury, Venus, NeptuneTwo 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.0°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 0.5°
  • Venus quincunx Neptune 0.6°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 1.2°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.6°

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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?

Allan’s cards

Computed from February 4, 1924. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

4 · Architect

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Allan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2648070 (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 Allan Temko at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Allan Temko.

Quick answers about Allan Temko’s chart

What zodiac sign was Allan Temko?
Allan Temko was an Aquarius: born February 4, 1924, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Allan Temko's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 4, 1924 birth.
What was Allan Temko's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Allan Temko's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Allan Temko's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Allan Temko's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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