Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson (born October 31, 1959, Fort Meade, United States), aged 67, 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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Neal
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
Neal ranked 223rd in 1959, the year of this birth, with 1,222 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Neal’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on N (5) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Neal’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, 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 Neal apart
Neal Stephenson took the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996, at 37.
Ames High School and Boston University shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1984, at 25.
Wikipedia's editors put Neal Stephenson under American electronic literature writers, Novelists from Maryland and Environmental fiction writers.
Peter Jackson (1961) and Dunga (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Ames High School and Boston University
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Novel (1996), Arthur C. Clarke Award (2004) and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1996)
- Nominated for
- Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel and Endeavour Award
- Working from
- 1984
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 40
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. Working below.
Where Neal sits
Six lines
Neal’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Neal Stephenson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Fort Meade 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 Fort Meade that night
Computed for 39.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Fort Meade at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.5° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 94 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.1°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 Fort Meade at all: they sit past the −50.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 45° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Fort Meade, United States
- Lives in
- Seattle
Wikidata records Seattle as Neal Stephenson's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Neal Stephenson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Neal's chart is
Chart pattern score
73 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart
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 →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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 11° Libra or Scorpio 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
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
stableMarssextilePluto0.9° to 1.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
stableSunsextilePluto1.2° to 2.2° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn3.8° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter4.0° to 4.9° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto4.5° to 5.6° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 22°41′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 14°58′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 8°16′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 23°06′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 8°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.3°
- Eros square Pluto 2.5°
Neal’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Neal’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Neal
Other writers
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- George Saunders1958
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- Rick Bragg1959
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- Annette Gordon-Reed1958
Born in United States
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- Saul PerlmutterAmerican astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
- Aaron Jay KernisAmerican composer and professor of music composition
- Emeril LagasseAmerican chef
- Patricia ClarksonAmerican actress
- Dave CoulierAmerican actor and comedian
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Neal’s cards
Computed from October 31, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The High PriestessAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Neal’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q312853 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Neal Stephenson.
Quick answers about Neal Stephenson’s chart
- How old is Neal Stephenson?
- Neal Stephenson is 67 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.
- 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 is Neal Stephenson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Neal Stephenson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
