Alwin Nikolais
Alwin Nikolais (born November 25, 1910, Southington, United States; died 1993), was an American choreographer. Nikolais's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Medal of Arts.
Alwin Nikolais’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dog, with 
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Alwin Nikolais’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Alwin in the U.S.?
#12109
US rank in 2025
~901
Americans share it since 1880
1915
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Alwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Rose-gold · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Alwin, according to the stars
Core essence
Alwin is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Alwin is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Alwin wants to be loved
Alwin 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 Alwin and watch them fall for you again.
How Alwin creates
How Alwin makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Alwin builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Alwin is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Alwin 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Alwin 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 Alwin's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
Alwin Nikolais's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 25, 1910, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Metal Dog
Metal DogLoyal past the point of sense.
Alwin Nikolais was born on November 25, 1910, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Nervy, gifted, tuned high.
Alwin Nikolais's birth date, November 25, 1910, 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 Alwin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Alwin Nikolais' date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Alwin Nikolais combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Alwin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Alwin Nikolais, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.1° to 0.3° orb
Alwin’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.2° orb
Alwin’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn1.8° to 2.1° orb
Alwin’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsextilePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb
Alwin’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrinePluto5.4° to 5.6° orb
Alwin’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunconjunctionMercury7.1° to 7.6° orb
Alwin’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.4° to 7.7° orb
Alwin’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 1.6° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.7° to 13.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Alwin’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 28°00′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Alwin making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 9°05′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Alwin looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosCapricorn 20°60′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Alwin is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 12°48′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Alwin carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Alwin is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.1°
- Eros opposition Neptune 0.3°
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.6°
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.8°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 2.9°
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°).
Alwin’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. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Alwin is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Alwin’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 Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
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.
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 1.4°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Alwin Nikolais, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Alwin’s cards
Every card is computed from November 25, 1910, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Alwin Nikolais, 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
Alwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q449880, 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.
The same Alwin Nikolais 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 Alwin Nikolais’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Alwin Nikolais?
- Alwin Nikolais was a Sagittarius: born November 25, 1910, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dog.
- What was Alwin Nikolais's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 25, 1910 birth.
- What time was Alwin Nikolais 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 Alwin Nikolais's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the November 25, 1910 birth date.
- What was Alwin Nikolais's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 25, 1910 birth date.
- Where was Alwin Nikolais's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Alwin Nikolais's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
