Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson (born October 31, 1959, Fort Meade, United States), aged 66, is an American science fiction writer (born 1959). Stephenson's honours include Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Neal Stephenson’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Neal Stephenson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Neal in the U.S.?
#1914
US rank in 2025
~55,305
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Neal’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Crimson · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Neal, according to the stars
Core essence
Neal does not do surface. The core of Neal is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Neal is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Neal wants to be loved
Neal wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Neal and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Neal creates
How Neal makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Neal creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Neal is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Neal is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Neal 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 Neal's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Neal sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Neal Stephenson's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 31, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Neal Stephenson was born on October 31, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
Neal Stephenson's birth date, October 31, 1959, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Neal’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Neal Stephenson's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Neal Stephenson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Neal’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Neal Stephenson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Neal’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.3° to 1.3° orb
Neal’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMars0.4° to 0.7° orb
Neal’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableJupitersquarePluto0.5° to 0.7° orb
Neal’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMarssextilePluto0.9° to 1.5° orb
Neal’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
Neal’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextilePluto1.2° to 2.2° orb
Neal’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturntrinePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb
Neal’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileSaturn3.8° to 4.4° orb
Neal’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.8° orb
Neal’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter4.0° to 4.9° orb
Neal’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquarePluto4.5° to 5.6° orb
Neal’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Neal’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 22°41′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Neal making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 14°58′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Neal is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosSagittarius 8°16′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Neal attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaLeo 23°06′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Neal at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Neal that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.3°
- Eros square Pluto 2.5°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Neal’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♇ Pluto12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 6 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Neal is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Neal’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.3°
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Neal Stephenson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Neal’s cards
Every card is computed from October 31, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Neal Stephenson, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Neal’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312853, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Neal Stephenson at Wikipedia, nealstephenson.com, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Neal Stephenson.
Quick answers about Neal Stephenson’s chart
- How old is Neal Stephenson?
- Neal Stephenson is 66 years old, born October 31, 1959 in Fort Meade, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Neal Stephenson?
- Neal Stephenson is a Scorpio: born October 31, 1959, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- What is Neal Stephenson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 31, 1959 birth.
- What time was Neal Stephenson born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Neal Stephenson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the October 31, 1959 birth date.
- What is Neal Stephenson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 31, 1959 birth date.
- Where is Neal Stephenson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Neal Stephenson's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 6 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
