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Alyson Hannigan

Alyson Hannigan (born March 24, 1974, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 52, is an American actress and television presenter. Notable films include How I Met Your Mother, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and American Pie. Hannigan's honours include Young Hollywood Awards, Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television and Teen Choice Award for Choice TV - Villain.

Alyson Hannigan’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Alyson Hannigan’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Diplomat

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Alyson in the U.S.?

#1388

US rank in 2025

~29,740

Americans share it since 1944

1990

its peak year

The SSA recorded 300 American girls named Alyson in 1974: 555th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Alyson’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on A (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Alyson’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 4

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Botanical green

The record

What sets Alyson apart

The Young Hollywood Awards came in 2000, when Alyson Hannigan was 26.

The schooling ran through North Hollywood High School and California State University, Northridge.

Alyson Hannigan was 12 when the work began in 1986.

Alyson Hannigan was married Alexis Denisof.

Jessica Chastain (1977) and Steve Ballmer (1956) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
North Hollywood High School and California State University, Northridge
Awards
Young Hollywood Awards (2000), Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television (2002) and Teen Choice Award for Choice TV - Villain (2002)
Nominated for
People's Choice Award for Favorite Actress in a New TV Series and Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actress Age Ten or Younger
Working from
1986
Wikipedia editions
67

What the chart says

Alyson, according to the stars

Core essence

Alyson leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Alyson is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Alyson runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Alyson needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Alyson wants to be loved

Alyson wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Alyson be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Alyson creates

How Alyson 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. Alyson 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: Alyson is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Alyson 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Alyson scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Alyson's birth date. Working below.

Where Alyson sits

Six lines

Alyson’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Alyson

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Alyson

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Alyson

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Alyson

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Alyson

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Alyson

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Alyson Hannigan

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Alyson’s birth-night reference starCastorwhite · GeminiCastor, in Gemini. A white star, 81.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Castor →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 59° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Washington that night

Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Castor, in Gemini, 81.1° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.

Sun 19° below the horizon, Moon down and 2% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Washington, D.C., United States
Lives in
Los Angeles

Wikidata records Los Angeles as Alyson Hannigan's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Alyson Hannigan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Alyson's chart is

Chart pattern score

15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

No Earth planets

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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If you only read one paragraph

Aries Sun

First through every door.

Alyson Hannigan's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 24, 1974, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Wood Tiger

Leads by moving.

Alyson Hannigan was born on March 24, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Alyson Hannigan's birth date, March 24, 1974, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Alyson’s chart

Alyson’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 19° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.4° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.7° orbSun faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.9° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.2° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.3° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 3.4° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4° orbSun in Aries · 3°38′☉3°Moon in Aries · 12°54′☽12°Mercury in Pisces · 5°54′☿5°Venus in Aquarius · 17°41′♀17°Mars in Gemini · 14°19′♂14°Jupiter in Pisces · 3°43′♃3°Saturn in Gemini · 28°21′♄28°Uranus in Libra · 26°41′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Sagittarius · 9°34′ · retrograde♆℞9°Pluto in Libra · 5°32′ · retrograde♇℞5°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunoppositionPluto1.4° to 2.4° orb

    Alyson’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus1.6° to 1.7° orb

    Alyson’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb

    Alyson’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune3.1° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenustrineMars3.2° to 3.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune4.4° to 5.0° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.8° to 5.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn5.3° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune5.4° to 6.4° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.7° to 6.0° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Alyson’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 19°22′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 21°29′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 27°29′ (moves 0.57° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAries or Pisces during this date

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 24°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Uranus 0.8°
  • Eros trine Saturn 0.9°
  • Chiron sextile Venus 1.7°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.1°

Alyson’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Alyson’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.

  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Mercury quincunx Pluto 0.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
  • Sun quintile Mars 1.3°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.8°

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Alyson’s cards

Computed from March 24, 1974. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Empress

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Diplomat

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Alyson’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q199927 (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 vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Alyson Hannigan at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Alyson Hannigan.

Quick answers about Alyson Hannigan’s chart

How old is Alyson Hannigan?
Alyson Hannigan is 52 years old, born March 24, 1974 in Washington, D.C., United States.
What zodiac sign is Alyson Hannigan?
Alyson Hannigan is an Aries: born March 24, 1974, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Alyson Hannigan's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 24, 1974 birth.
How tall is Alyson Hannigan?
Alyson Hannigan is 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Alyson Hannigan's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Alyson Hannigan's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Alyson Hannigan's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Alyson Hannigan's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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