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Malcolm X

Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925, Omaha, United States; died 1965), was an American Black rights activist. Malcolm's honours include Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

Malcolm X’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Malcolm X’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

#272

US rank in 2025

~70,328

Americans share it since 1880

1992

its peak year

Malcolm ranked 218th among boys and 3,550th among girls in 1925, the year of this birth, with 618 American boys and 9 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Malcolm’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Malcolm Little, not the name they published under.

3

Expression · expression and voice

3

Soul Urge · being heard

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on M (4) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Malcolm’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid

Ivory · Blush · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1925, 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 Malcolm apart

Malcolm X took the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards in 1966, at 41.

The working life starts in 1954, at 29.

Cause of death is recorded as gunshot wound; the grave is at Ferncliff Cemetery.

Malcolm X was born to Louise Little and Earl Little, married Betty Shabazz and raised 5 children.

Wikipedia's editors put Malcolm X under American Islamists, African-American history in Omaha, Nebraska and African American-Jewish relations.

Sam Smith (1992) and Grace Jones (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (1966)
Working from
1954
Cause of death
gunshot wound
Buried at
Ferncliff Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
135

What the chart says

Malcolm, according to the stars

Core essence

Malcolm is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Malcolm is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Malcolm wants to be loved

Malcolm wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Malcolm like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Malcolm creates

How Malcolm makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Malcolm creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Malcolm is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Malcolm is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Malcolm does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Malcolm's birth date. Working below.

Where Malcolm sits

Six lines

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Intimate circleWide network
Malcolm

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Malcolm

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Malcolm

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Malcolm

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Malcolm

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Malcolm

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Malcolm’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 77.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 26.3° 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 Omaha that night

Computed for 41.26°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Omaha at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.4° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 100 catalog stars were up in all.

From 41.3°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 Omaha at all: they sit past the −48.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 4° below the horizon, Moon down and 7% lit at waning crescent.

The name and the places

Born as
Malcolm Little
Known as
Malcolm X
Born in
Omaha, United States

The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 1965.

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

How unusual Malcolm's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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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Malcolm X in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Malcolm X's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 19, 1925, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Wood Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Malcolm X's birth date, May 19, 1925, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Malcolm’s chart

Malcolm’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.3° orbSaturn flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.4° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.4° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.4° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.5° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.8° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 5.8° orbSun in Taurus · 28°10′☉28°Moon in Aries · 23°44′☽23°Mercury in Taurus · 2°48′☿2°Venus in Gemini · 4°58′♀4°Mars in Cancer · 6°12′♂6°Jupiter in Capricorn · 22°23′ · retrograde♃℞22°Saturn in Scorpio · 9°42′ · retrograde♄℞9°Uranus in Pisces · 24°46′♅24°Neptune in Leo · 19°53′♆19°Pluto in Cancer · 11°58′♇11°

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

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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

  • stableSaturntrinePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb

    Malcolm’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus2.4° orb

    Malcolm’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsextileUranus2.9° to 3.9° orb

    Malcolm’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysextileMars3.1° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn3.2° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter5.3° to 6.3° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto5.5° to 6.1° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn6.3° to 7.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.7° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 3.2° to 15.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 26°11′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 11°24′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosTaurus 4°28′ (moves 0.74° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 8°56′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 17°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros conjunction Mercury 1.7°
  • Eros sextile Mars 1.7°

Malcolm’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Malcolm’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.

  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.1°
  • Jupiter quintile Saturn 0.7°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 1.2°
  • Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.2°
  • Mars semi-square Neptune 1.3°
  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 2.5°

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Malcolm’s cards

Computed from May 19, 1925. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Malcolm’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q43303 (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 Marion S. Trikosko, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Malcolm X 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 Malcolm X.

Quick answers about Malcolm X’s chart

What zodiac sign was Malcolm X?
Malcolm X was a Taurus: born May 19, 1925, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Malcolm X's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 19, 1925 birth.
What was Malcolm X's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Malcolm X's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Malcolm X's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Malcolm X's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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