Ne-Yo
Ne-Yo (born Shaffer Chimere Smith; October 18, 1979, Camden, United States), aged 47, is an American R&B singer. Best-known releases include Year of the Gentleman, In My Own Words and Because of You. Ne-Yo's honours include Grammy Awards.
Ne-Yo’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Goat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Ne-Yo
Ne-Yo’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
What Ne-Yo’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Shaffer Chimere Smith, not the name they published under.
22
Expression · building at scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on S (1) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ne-Yo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets Ne-Yo apart
Training came by way of Las Vegas Academy of the Arts and Rancho High School.
The working life starts in 1998, at 19.
Zohran Mamdani (1991) and Brittney Griner (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Las Vegas Academy of the Arts and Rancho High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Working from
- 1998
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
What the chart says
Ne-Yo, according to the stars
Core essence
Ne-Yo makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Ne-Yo is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Ne-Yo wants to be loved
Ne-Yo wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Ne-Yo even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Ne-Yo creates
How Ne-Yo makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Ne-Yo creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Ne-Yo is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Ne-Yo 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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Ne-Yo fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Ne-Yo's birth date. Working below.
Where Ne-Yo sits
Six lines
Ne-Yo’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 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 Ne-Yo
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Camden 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 Camden that night
Computed for 33.57°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Camden at 9 p.m. that evening: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 10.6° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 33.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Camden at all: they sit past the −56.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon down and 4% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Shaffer Chimere Smith
- Known as
- Ne-Yo
- Born in
- Camden, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ne-Yo: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ne-Yo's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Ne-Yo's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1979, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatArtist first, everything second.
Ne-Yo was born on October 18, 1979, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Ne-Yo's birth date, October 18, 1979, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Ne-Yo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ne-Yo's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Ne-Yo combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
Ne-Yo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb
Ne-Yo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.2° orb
Ne-Yo’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareMars2.3° to 3.0° orb
Ne-Yo’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.7° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.3° to 5.0° orb
stableMarstrineNeptune4.4° to 4.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.9° to 5.8° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.7° to 6.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.2° to 7.3° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.4° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 2.5° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Ne-Yo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 12°19′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 9°39′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 13°03′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 19°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 11°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.2°
- Eros opposition Mars 0.7°
- Chiron square Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.5°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.1°
Ne-Yo’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Ne-Yo’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.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Sun quintile Mars 1.0°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 2.0°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Ne-Yo’s
Fellow Libra suns
- A.J. GreenAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Jericho SimsAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Jalen SlawsonAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
Born in Goat years
- Max CharlesAmerican actor (born 2003)
- Miss Maud Angelica Behneldest child of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn
- Emily CareyBritish actor
Also born on October 18
- Zohran Mamdani1991
- Brittney Griner1990
- Zac Efron1987
- Martina Navratilova1956
- Bristol Palin1990
- Freida Pinto1984
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Lucy LawlessNew Zealand actress
- Anna PaquinNew Zealand actress
- Diego SimeoneArgentine association football player and manager
Other Libra Goat charts
- Guy PearceAustralian actor
- John KrasinskiAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Gavin Newsom40th governor of California since 2019
- Peter ThielGerman-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
Other Steadfast Visionarys
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- DaraBulgarian singer-songwriter (born 1998)
- Kim Hong-joongSouth Korean rapper and singer
- Vinnie JonesBritish footballer and actor
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Andrew NiccolNew Zealand screenwriter, producer and film director
- H. L. GoldAmerican writer
- Jim ReardonAmerican animator, director, and screenwriter
From the journal: Cusp signs aren't real. Here's why · Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
Ne-Yo’s cards
Computed from October 18, 1979. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ne-Yo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193710 (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 The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ne-Yo at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ne-Yo.
Quick answers about Ne-Yo’s chart
- How old is Ne-Yo?
- Ne-Yo is 47 years old, born October 18, 1979 in Camden, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ne-Yo?
- Ne-Yo is a Libra: born October 18, 1979, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Ne-Yo's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1979 birth.
- What is Ne-Yo's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ne-Yo's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ne-Yo's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ne-Yo's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
