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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Alwin
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 1895
1915
its peak year
US records hold Alwin from 1895 onward, though not for 1910 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 1915 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Alwin’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Alwin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Alwin apart
Andrew Carnegie (1835) and Christina Applegate (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Alwin sits
Six lines
Alwin’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 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.
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 Alwin Nikolais
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Southington 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 Southington that night
Computed for 41.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Southington was Almach, in Andromeda, 83.8° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Southington at all: they sit past the −48.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 28% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 50° down.
How unusual Alwin's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Dog means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 1° Virgo or Libra 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
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
stableJupitertrinePluto5.4° to 5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury7.1° to 7.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.4° to 7.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 28°00′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 9°05′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 20°60′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 12°48′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 27°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Alwin’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Alwin’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on November 25
- Andrew Carnegie1835
- Christina Applegate1971
- Pedri2002
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- Cristian RomeroArgentine association football player (born 1998)
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Other Sagittarius Dog charts
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Other Evergreen Seekers
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Famous people with Life Path 11
- Jack KerouacAmerican writer
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Alwin’s cards
Computed from November 25, 1910. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Alwin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q449880 (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 Alwin Nikolais at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alwin Nikolais.
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.
- 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 was Alwin Nikolais's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Alwin Nikolais's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
