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Phillip Alford

Phillip Alford (born September 11, 1948, Gadsden, United States), aged 78, is an American actor.

Phillip Alford’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Phillip Alford’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Healer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

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

#651

US rank in 2025

~312,891

Americans share it since 1880

1960

its peak year

The SSA recorded 5,018 American boys and 8 girls named Phillip in 1948: 69th among boys and 4,132nd among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Phillip’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

7

Soul Urge · understanding

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on P (7) and closes on P (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 9: voice against empathy.

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

Phillip’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia

Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta

The record

What sets Phillip apart

Taraji P. Henson (1970) and Julia Nickson-Soul (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Phillip, according to the stars

Core essence

Phillip notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Phillip is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

How Phillip wants to be loved

Phillip wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Phillip openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Phillip creates

How Phillip makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Phillip creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Phillip is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Phillip is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Phillip 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 Phillip's birth date. Working below.

Where Phillip sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Phillip

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Phillip

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Phillip

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Phillip

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

PracticalVisionary
Phillip

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Phillip

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Phillip Alford

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

Phillip’s birth-night reference starAlbireowarm orange · CygnusAlbireo, in Cygnus. A warm orange star, 83.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Albireo →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 14.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Gadsden that night

Computed for 34.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Gadsden was Albireo, in Cygnus, 83.4° up.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.

Gadsden sits at 34.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Gadsden at all: they sit past the −56.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 68% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 25° down.

How unusual Phillip's chart is

Chart pattern score

36 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

A bowl chart · 2 planets at a critical degree · No retrogrades at all

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

Virgo Sun

Order first. Then rest, in theory.

Phillip Alford's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 11, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Virgo means →

Earth Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Phillip Alford was born on September 11, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Phillip Alford's birth date, September 11, 1948, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Phillip’s chart

Phillip’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.2° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 1.3° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 2.2° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.8° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.6° orbSun in Virgo · 18°51′☉18°Moon in Capricorn · 5°12′☽5°Mercury in Libra · 11°48′☿11°Venus in Leo · 3°11′♀3°Mars in Scorpio · 5°24′♂5°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 20°11′♃20°Saturn in Leo · 29°06′♄29°Uranus in Cancer · 0°19′♅0°Neptune in Libra · 11°51′♆11°Pluto in Leo · 15°36′♇15°

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Phillip’s mind and imagination act as one.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.9° to 1.8° orb

    Phillip’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus1.2° to 1.3° orb

    Phillip’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussquareMars2.0° to 2.4° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto3.1° to 4.5° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto4.6° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus4.8° to 5.4° orb

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 6.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.5° to 12.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

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

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 20°54′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 28°53′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 1°50′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 18°49′ (moves 0.34° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 5°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.4°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.4°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 1.5°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 2.1°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 2.7°

Phillip’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

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

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Phillip’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.

  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.2°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.5°

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Phillip’s cards

Computed from September 11, 1948. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Healer

Western zodiac

Virgo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

6 · Guardian

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Phillip’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3381068 (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 trailer screenshot (Universal Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Phillip Alford at Wikipedia and IMDb.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Phillip Alford.

Quick answers about Phillip Alford’s chart

How old is Phillip Alford?
Phillip Alford is 78 years old, born September 11, 1948 in Gadsden, United States.
What zodiac sign is Phillip Alford?
Phillip Alford is a Virgo: born September 11, 1948, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
What is Phillip Alford's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 11, 1948 birth.
What is Phillip Alford's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Phillip Alford's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Phillip Alford's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Phillip Alford's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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