Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong (born August 5, 1930, Wapakoneta, United States, 00:31; died 2012), was an American astronaut and lunar explorer. Armstrong's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, United States Astronaut Hall of Fame and Order of the White Elephant.
Neil Armstrong’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Horse, with 
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Neil Armstrong’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Scholar
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Neil in the U.S.?
#851
US rank in 2025
~105,254
Americans share it since 1880
1954
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Neil’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Neil, according to the stars
Core essence
Neil is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Neil is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Neil is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Neil needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Neil wants to be loved
Neil 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 Neil and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Neil creates
How Neil makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Neil creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Neil is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Neil is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Neil scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Neil's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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The quick version
Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Neil Armstrong's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Neil Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Neil Armstrong's birth date, August 5, 1930, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Neil’s chart
- One of the ten planets sits in angular houses in Neil Armstrong's timed chart: Sun in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Neil Armstrong's timed chart is Moon square Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Neil Armstrong combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Scholar.
Neil’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoonsquareVenusseparating · 0.3° orb
Neil’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarssextileUranusapplying · 0.4° orb
Neil’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 0.7° orb
Neil’s mind and imagination act as one.
JupiteroppositionSaturnseparating · 2.4° orb
Neil’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
SunsextileMarsapplying · 2.8° orb
Neil’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
SuntrineUranusapplying · 3.3° orb
Neil’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
SaturntrineNeptuneapplying · 3.7° orb
Neil’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 4.5° orb
Neil’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
UranussquarePlutoseparating · 4.5° orb
Neil’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
VenussextilePlutoseparating · 4.8° orb
Neil’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupitersquareUranusapplying · 6.6° orb
Neil’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoontrineMercuryapplying · 6.9° orb
Neil’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Neil’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 18°44′ · House 1
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Neil building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresLeo 9°57′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Neil is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosTaurus 16°19′ · House 1
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Neil wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 8°47′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Neil needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 19°07′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Neil at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 2.1°
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°).
Neil’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; disposes Moon; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Neil is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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 Neil’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°
Neil’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 5 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Gemini | Mercury in Virgo, house 5 | Mars | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 8 | Jupiter, Pluto | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Leo | Sun in Leo, house 4 | Sun | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Virgo | Mercury in Virgo, house 5 | Mercury, Venus, Neptune | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 5 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 3 | Moon | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 9 | Saturn | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 12 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 5 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aries | Mars in Gemini, house 2 | Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Neil’s cards
Every card is computed from August 5, 1930, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Neil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1615, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Neil Armstrong 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 Neil Armstrong’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Neil Armstrong?
- Neil Armstrong was a Leo: born August 5, 1930, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- What was Neil Armstrong's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 5, 1930 birth.
- What time was Neil Armstrong born?
- 00:31 local time in Wapakoneta, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Neil Armstrong's rising sign?
- Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 00:31 birth time in Wapakoneta, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Neil Armstrong's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the August 5, 1930 birth date.
- What was Neil Armstrong's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 5, 1930 birth time.
- Where was Neil Armstrong's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 19°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Neil Armstrong's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
