Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958, Manhattan, United States), aged 67, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Dog, with 
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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
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
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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Neil 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 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.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for Neil deGrasse Tyson, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Cancer 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.
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
Neil’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune1.8° to 2.0° orb
Neil’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
Neil’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.5° to 4.2° orb
Neil’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileUranus3.0° to 3.9° orb
Neil’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrineUranus5.2° orb
Neil’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
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
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 ℞Aquarius 17°55′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Neil making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLibra 2°54′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Neil is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 19°59′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Neil is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaGemini 22°57′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
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 LilithAries 25°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Neil carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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 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°
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 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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Neil 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 Neil’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, 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Neil deGrasse Tyson, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Neil’s cards
Every card is computed from October 5, 1958, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for Neil deGrasse Tyson, 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
Neil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310903, 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 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. 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 deGrasse Tyson’s chart
- How old is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
- Neil deGrasse Tyson is 67 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Dog.
- 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 time was Neil deGrasse Tyson 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 is Neil deGrasse Tyson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the October 5, 1958 birth date.
- What is Neil deGrasse Tyson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 5, 1958 birth date.
- 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.
