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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Horse, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~162,512
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Alvin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Alvin sits
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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.
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Alvin Ailey in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for Alvin Ailey, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 8° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Alvin’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableSunoppositionJupiter0.6° to 1.7° orb
Alvin’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn1.2° to 1.5° orb
Alvin’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsquareUranus2.4° to 3.4° orb
Alvin’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.7° to 2.8° orb
Alvin’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarstrineUranus2.9° to 3.2° orb
Alvin’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareUranus3.1° to 4.5° orb
Alvin’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.9° to 5.2° orb
Alvin’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussquareNeptune3.9° to 4.6° orb
Alvin’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 14°10′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Alvin building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLibra 10°49′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Alvin is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosVirgo or Leo during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Alvin is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 5°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Alvin needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 6°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Alvin is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Alvin’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Alvin is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Alvin’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alvin Ailey, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Alvin
Robert Duvall was born on January 5, 1931 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Alvin’s cards
Every card is computed from January 5, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Alvin Ailey, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Alvin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q449037, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Alvin Ailey at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- 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 time was Alvin Ailey born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Alvin Ailey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the January 5, 1931 birth date.
- What was Alvin Ailey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 5, 1931 birth date.
- 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.
