Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem (born October 23, 1923, Richmond, United States; died 2022), was an American composer and diarist. Rorem is best remembered for Piano Concerto No. 2. Rorem's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Rome Prize.
Ned Rorem’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Pig, with 
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Ned Rorem’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ned in the U.S.?
#9452
US rank in 2025
~17,297
Americans share it since 1880
1939
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ned’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ned, according to the stars
Core essence
Ned makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Ned 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Ned runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Ned needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Ned wants to be loved
Ned 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 Ned even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Ned creates
How Ned 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. Ned 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: Ned 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ned is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Ned fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Ned's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ned sits
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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.
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Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Ned Rorem's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 23, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Ned Rorem was born on October 23, 1923, which falls in a Water 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 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Ned Rorem's birth date, October 23, 1923, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Ned’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ned Rorem's date-only chart is Venus trine Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ned Rorem combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Ned’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ned Rorem, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Aries 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.
stableVenustrinePluto1.1° to 2.3° orb
Ned’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.5° to 3.0° orb
Ned’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrinePluto1.7° orb
Ned’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineUranus2.7° to 4.0° orb
Ned’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.8° to 3.0° orb
Ned’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
Ned’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn5.0° to 5.9° orb
Ned’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileNeptuneorb from 4.7° to 6.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Ned’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 ℞Aries 18°16′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Ned may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresAquarius 3°13′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Ned is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosCancer 27°14′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Ned is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaPisces 2°43′
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Ned needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 13°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Ned is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Ceres trine Mars 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.9°
- Eros square Sun 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 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°).
Ned’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. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ned is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Ned’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 Libra · Sun, Mercury, Mars, SaturnThree 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.
Grand trine · Venus, Uranus, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ned Rorem, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Ned’s cards
Every card is computed from October 23, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ned Rorem, 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
Ned’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q733299, 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 AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ned Rorem at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
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Quick answers about Ned Rorem’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Ned Rorem?
- Ned Rorem was a Libra: born October 23, 1923, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
- What was Ned Rorem's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 23, 1923 birth.
- What time was Ned Rorem 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 was Ned Rorem's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 23, 1923 birth date.
- What was Ned Rorem's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 23, 1923 birth date.
- Where was Ned Rorem's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Ned Rorem's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
