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, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Ned
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
The SSA recorded 279 American boys named Ned in 1923: 353rd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ned’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on N (5) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ned’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Ned apart
Pelé (1940) and Paul Kagame (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Ned sits
Six lines
Ned’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 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.
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 Ned Rorem
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Richmond 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 Richmond that night
Computed for 39.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Richmond was Scheat, in Pegasus, 76.7° up.
Of the 94 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Richmond sits at 39.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −50.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Richmond on any night.
The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 47° below the horizon.
How unusual Ned's chart is
Chart pattern score
79 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Libra · Grand trine · T-square onto Pluto
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 →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.
What Libra means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Aries 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
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
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.8° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn5.0° to 5.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 18°16′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 3°13′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 27°14′ (moves 0.89° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 2°43′
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 13°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Ned’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ned’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.6°
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on October 23
- Pelé1940
- Paul Kagame1957
- Ryan Reynolds1976
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Dick DurbinUnited States Senator from Illinois
- Anjelica HustonAmerican actress (born 1951)
- Andy SerkisBritish actor
Other Libra Pig charts
- Amber RoseAmerican model and television personality
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- Jason AlexanderAmerican actor, comedian, director and television host
- Billy BushAmerican radio and television host (born 1971)
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- Herman WoukAmerican writer
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Famous people with Life Path 3
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Ned’s cards
Computed from October 23, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ned’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q733299 (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 AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ned Rorem at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ned Rorem.
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.
- 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 was Ned Rorem's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Ned Rorem's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
