Allen Drury
Allen Drury (born September 2, 1918, Houston, United States; died 1998), was an American novelist. Drury is best remembered for Advise and Consent. Drury's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Golden Plate Award.
Allen Drury’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Allen
Allen Drury’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Allen in the U.S.?
#578
US rank in 2025
~273,662
Americans share it since 1880
1951
its peak year
In 1918, 1,779 American boys and 22 girls were registered Allen — 98th among boys and 1,754th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Allen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
9
Soul Urge · meaning
22
Personality · quietly formidable
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Allen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
The record
What sets Allen apart
Keir Starmer (1962) and Keanu Reeves (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Allen, according to the stars
Core essence
Allen notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Allen is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Allen needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Allen needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Allen wants to be loved
Allen wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Allen openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Allen creates
How Allen makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Allen creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Allen is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Allen is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Allen 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 Allen's birth date. Working below.
Where Allen sits
Six lines
Allen’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Allen Drury
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Houston 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 Houston that night
Computed for 29.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Houston at 9 p.m. that evening: Sheliak of Lyra, within 6.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 79 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Houston sits at 29.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman cannot be seen from Houston at all: they sit past the −60.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 16° below the horizon, Moon down and 6% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Allen's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Allen Drury's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 2, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Allen Drury was born on September 2, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Allen Drury's birth date, September 2, 1918, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Allen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Allen Drury's date-only chart is Mars trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Allen Drury combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Allen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Leo 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
stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 6.6° orb
Allen’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.1° to 0.6° orb
Allen’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.3° to 2.2° orb
Allen’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.4° to 1.2° orb
stableSunsextileMars1.0° to 1.3° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto1.3° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.5° to 2.6° orb
stableMercurysextileMars1.6° to 3.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn2.0° to 3.1° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableSunsextilePluto2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto3.7° to 3.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Allen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°10′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 26°47′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 11°15′ (moves 0.93° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 23°52′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 14°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mars 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 3.0°
Allen’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Allen’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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.1°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Allen’s cards
Computed from September 2, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Allen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q733850 (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 Jack Kightlinger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Allen Drury 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 Allen Drury.
Quick answers about Allen Drury’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Allen Drury?
- Allen Drury was a Virgo: born September 2, 1918, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Allen Drury's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 2, 1918 birth.
- What was Allen Drury's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Allen Drury's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Allen Drury's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Allen Drury's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
