Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey (born January 5, 1931, Rogers, United States; died 1989), was an African-American dancer, choreographer and activist. Ailey is best remembered for Revelations and Jerico-Jim Crow. Ailey's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Kennedy Center Honors and Spingarn Medal.
Alvin Ailey’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Alvin
Alvin Ailey’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Alvin in the U.S.?
#838
US rank in 2025
~162,512
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
Alvin ranked 80th among boys and 1,504th among girls in 1931, the year of this birth, with 2,299 American boys and 25 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alvin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alvin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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 Alvin apart
The shelf Alvin Ailey is read from: Jerico-Jim Crow and Revelations.
The classrooms behind this chart: Jefferson High School (Los Angeles) and Los Angeles City College.
Cause of death is recorded as death from AIDS-related complications; the grave is at Rose Hills Memorial Park.
Wikipedia's editors put Alvin Ailey under Burials at Rose Hills Memorial Park, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Dancers from Texas.
The same date carries Robert Duvall. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Jerico-Jim Crow and Revelations
- Educated at
- Jefferson High School (Los Angeles), Los Angeles City College and San Francisco State University
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014), Kennedy Center Honors (1988) and Handel Medallion (1988)
- Cause of death
- death from AIDS-related complications
- Buried at
- Rose Hills Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 45
What the chart says
Alvin, according to the stars
Core essence
Alvin is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Alvin is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Alvin wants to be loved
Alvin wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Alvin and watch them fall for you again.
How Alvin creates
How Alvin makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Alvin creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Alvin 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Alvin is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Alvin fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Alvin's birth date. Working below.
Where Alvin sits
Six lines
Alvin’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 Alvin Ailey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rogers 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 Rogers that night
Computed for 30.93°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Rogers was Atik, in Perseus, 87.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
From 30.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −59.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon up and 96% lit at full moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Rogers, United States
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 1989.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alvin Ailey: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Alvin's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · T-square onto Uranus · Five planets retrograde
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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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Alvin Ailey's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 5, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Alvin Ailey was born on January 5, 1931, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Alvin Ailey's birth date, January 5, 1931, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Alvin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alvin Ailey's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alvin Ailey combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Alvin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 8° Cancer or 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 2.1° orb
Alvin’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
Alvin’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Alvin’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn0.4° to 1.8° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter0.6° to 1.7° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn1.2° to 1.5° orb
stableSunsquareUranus2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus2.9° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus3.1° to 4.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.9° to 5.2° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune3.9° to 4.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Alvin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 14°10′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 10°49′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo or Leo during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 5°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 6°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Saturn 0.1°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.1°
- Chiron trine Sun 0.3°
- Chiron square Mars 0.4°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.2°
- Eros square Venus 1.2°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 1.4°
Alvin’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Alvin’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Uranus · Mercury, Jupiter, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Jupiter, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
- T-square onto Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.0°
- Sun quincunx Mars 0.1°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°
Born the same day as Alvin
Robert Duvall was born on January 5, 1931 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Rogers, at 30.9°N, nothing below −59.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Alvin
Other ballet dancers
- Paul Taylor1930
- Arthur Mitchell1934
- Maria Tallchief1925
- Larisa Latynina1934
- Jerome Robbins1918
- Edward Villella1936
Born in United States
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Alvin’s cards
Computed from January 5, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alvin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q449037 (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 Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Quick answers about Alvin Ailey’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alvin Ailey?
- Alvin Ailey was a Capricorn: born January 5, 1931, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Alvin Ailey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 5, 1931 birth.
- What was Alvin Ailey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alvin Ailey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Alvin Ailey's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alvin Ailey's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
