Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958, Manhattan, United States), aged 68, is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. Tyson's honours include Knight Innovation Award, Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and Isaac Asimov Science Award.
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Neil
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
In 1958, 1,711 American boys and 7 girls were registered Neil — 174th among boys and 5,251st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Neil’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
22
Soul Urge · legacy
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
Neil’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1958, 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 Neil apart
Kate Winslet (1975) and Jesse Eisenberg (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Neil, according to the stars
Core essence
Neil makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Neil 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, Neil is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Neil needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Neil wants to be loved
Neil wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Neil gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Neil creates
How Neil makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Neil creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Neil is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Neil 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: 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. Working below.
Where Neil sits
Six lines
Neil’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Neil deGrasse Tyson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Manhattan was Deneb, in Cygnus, 84.2° up.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Manhattan on any night.
Sun 28° below the horizon, Moon down and 50% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Manhattan, United States
- Lives in
- Tribeca
Wikidata records Tribeca as Neil deGrasse Tyson'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 Neil deGrasse Tyson: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Neil's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Libra · A leaning bowl · No retrogrades at all
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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Neil deGrasse Tyson's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 5, 1958, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Dog
Earth DogThe first call when it's bad.
Neil deGrasse Tyson was born on October 5, 1958, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Sees what the rest missed.
Neil deGrasse Tyson's birth date, October 5, 1958, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Neil’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Neil deGrasse Tyson's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Neil’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Cancer 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.5° orb
Neil’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineMars0.0° to 0.7° orb
Neil’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb
Neil’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquarePluto0.9° to 1.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune1.8° to 2.0° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurysextileUranus2.5° to 4.2° orb
stableSunsextileUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.2° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Neil’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 17°55′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 2°54′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 19°59′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 22°57′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.4°
- Ceres trine Mars 0.5°
- Eros square Saturn 0.6°
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 2.4°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 2.6°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.6°
Neil’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Neil’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Mars quintile Uranus 1.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.2°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.8°
More people like Neil
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Born in United States
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- David RemnickAmerican journalist, writer and editor (born 1958)
- Tim BurtonAmerican filmmaker and artist
- Jamie Lee CurtisAmerican actress and author
- Jeff YassAmerican businessman, co-founder of Susquehanna International Group
- Tim RobbinsAmerican actor
More charts like Neil’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Elie WieselRomanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor
- Jimmy Carterpresident of the United States from 1977 to 1981
- T. S. EliotUS-British poet
Born in Dog years
- Derrick WhiteAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Ben SarafIsraeli basketball player (born 2006)
- Egor DeminRussian basketball player (born 2006)
Also born on October 5
- Kate Winslet1975
- Jesse Eisenberg1983
- Guy Pearce1967
- Ray Kroc1902
- Travis Kelce1989
- Nicky Hilton1983
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- William Cabell BruceAmerican politician
- Jerome WeidmanAmerican writer
- Mary ChaseAmerican writer, playwright
Other Libra Dog charts
- Nicole Ari ParkerAmerican actress
- Hannah BrownAmerican beauty pageant titleholder
- Stephen "tWitch" BossAmerican actor
- Kieran CulkinAmerican actor (born 1982)
Other Evergreen Visionarys
- Martin HairerAustrian-British mathematician working in stochastic analysis
- Michel MayorSwiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
- Otto Heinrich WarburgGerman physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate
- Albert Abraham MichelsonAmerican physicist
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Daniel YerginAmerican author and speaker (born 1947)
- Alan DuganAmerican poet
- Tad MoselAmerican playwright
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Neil’s cards
Computed from October 5, 1958. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Neil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310903 (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 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Neil deGrasse Tyson at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, 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 Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Quick answers about Neil deGrasse Tyson’s chart
- How old is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
- Neil deGrasse Tyson is 68 years old, born October 5, 1958 in Manhattan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
- Neil deGrasse Tyson is a Libra: born October 5, 1958, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Neil deGrasse Tyson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 5, 1958 birth.
- What is Neil deGrasse Tyson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Neil deGrasse Tyson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Neil deGrasse Tyson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Neil deGrasse Tyson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
