Andrew Niccol
Andrew Niccol (born June 10, 1964, Paraparaumu, New Zealand), aged 62, is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer and film director. Niccol's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Andrew Niccol’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Andrew
Andrew Niccol’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Andrew in the U.S.?
#73
US rank in 2025
~1,334,415
Americans share it since 1880
1987
its peak year
Andrew ranked 37th among boys and 1,892nd among girls in 1964, the year of this birth, with 10,494 American boys and 39 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Andrew’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on A (1) and closes on W (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Andrew’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1964, 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 Andrew apart
Andrew Niccol took the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1999, at 35.
Auckland Grammar School shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1997, at 33.
The family line: married Rachel Roberts.
Wikipedia's editors put Andrew Niccol under People from Paraparaumu, New Zealand science fiction film directors and Best Original Screenplay BAFTA Award winners.
Judy Garland (1922) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Auckland Grammar School
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1999)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- Working from
- 1997
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
Andrew, according to the stars
Core essence
Andrew is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Andrew needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Andrew processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Andrew needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Andrew wants to be loved
Andrew wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Andrew gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Andrew creates
How Andrew makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Andrew creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Andrew is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Andrew is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Andrew is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Andrew's birth date. Working below.
Where Andrew sits
Six lines
Andrew’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 Andrew Niccol
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Paraparaumu 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 Paraparaumu that night
Computed for 40.91°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkent stood nearest the zenith over Paraparaumu at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.9° above the horizon in Centaurus.
Canopus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 67 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 40.9°S there are stars that never set at all. Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman stay up year round.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.
How unusual Andrew's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Mercury · No Fire planets · Venus retrograde
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 →Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Andrew Niccol's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 10, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Andrew Niccol was born on June 10, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Andrew Niccol's birth date, June 10, 1964, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Andrew’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Andrew Niccol's date-only chart is Venus trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- No planet falls in Fire signs in this chart.
- Andrew Niccol combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Andrew’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 24° Gemini 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
stableVenustrineSaturn0.6° to 1.0° orb
Andrew’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus1.2° orb
Andrew’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenussextileUranus1.8° to 2.2° orb
Andrew’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune1.8° to 2.0° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto1.9° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.6° to 5.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus4.8° to 6.5° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.5° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto6.7° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Andrew’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 18°44′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 2°30′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 1°46′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 13°23′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 16°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Sun 0.4°
- Ceres opposition Venus 1.7°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.5°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 2.8°
Andrew’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Andrew’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Saturn, Uranus, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Andrew’s cards
Computed from June 10, 1964. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Andrew’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q360737 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Andrew Niccol 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 Andrew Niccol.
Quick answers about Andrew Niccol’s chart
- How old is Andrew Niccol?
- Andrew Niccol is 62 years old, born June 10, 1964 in Paraparaumu, New Zealand.
- What zodiac sign is Andrew Niccol?
- Andrew Niccol is a Gemini: born June 10, 1964, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Andrew Niccol's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 10, 1964 birth.
- What is Andrew Niccol's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Andrew Niccol's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Andrew Niccol's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Andrew Niccol's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
