Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond (born January 24, 1941, Brooklyn, United States, 23:04), aged 85, is an American recording artist; singer-songwriter. Diamond's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Kennedy Center Honors and MusiCares Person of the Year.
Neil Diamond’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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Neil Diamond’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Neil apart
Dan Shechtman and Gary K. Wolf shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.
What the chart says
Neil, according to the stars
Core essence
Neil is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Neil is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Neil is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Neil needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Neil wants to be loved
Neil wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Neil you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Neil creates
How Neil makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Neil creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Neil is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Neil is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Neil has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Neil Diamond's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Neil Diamond was born on January 24, 1941, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4The one who reads the manual.
Neil Diamond's birth date, January 24, 1941, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Neil’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Neil Diamond's timed chart: Moon in the 4th house and Venus in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Neil Diamond's timed chart is Moon trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Neil Diamond combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
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.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoontrineJupiterapplying · 0.4° orb
Neil’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
MercurysextileMarsseparating · 0.4° orb
Neil’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
JupiterconjunctionSaturnapplying · 1.4° orb
Neil’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunoppositionPlutoseparating · 1.6° orb
Neil’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MoontrineSaturnapplying · 1.8° orb
Neil’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunsquareJupiterapplying · 1.9° orb
Neil’s core identity grinds against their growth.
SunsquareSaturnapplying · 3.3° orb
Neil’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 3.6° orb
Neil’s growth grinds against their depths.
SaturnsquarePlutoseparating · 5.0° orb
Neil’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 5.3° orb
Neil’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercurysquareSaturnseparating · 6.0° orb
Neil’s mind grinds against their discipline.
VenustrineSaturnseparating · 6.0° orb
Neil’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonconjunctionVenusapplying · 7.8° orb
Neil’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth6 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 27°58′ · House 10
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Neil is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 16°35′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Neil is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosPisces 3°00′ · House 6
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.
⚕ HygieaAries 3°26′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Neil feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°21′ · House 7
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.
- Ceres sextile Ascendant 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Pluto 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.4°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.8°
- Hygiea square Moon 2.9°
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. ♄ Saturn12.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon, Venus; 6 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Neil is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Pluto, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Sun, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.4°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Moon 1.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
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 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 4 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 11 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Taurus, house 8 | Mars | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Capricorn | Saturn in Taurus, house 8 | Moon, Venus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aquarius | Uranus in Taurus, house 8 | Sun, Mercury | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 12 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aries | Mars in Sagittarius, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 4 | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 5 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Cancer | Moon in Capricorn, house 4 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Leo | Sun in Aquarius, house 5 | Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 5 | Neptune | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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2 other people here were born on January 24, 1941, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Neil’s cards
Every card is computed from January 24, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Neil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q294531, 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 Irisgerh at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 Diamond’s chart
- How old is Neil Diamond?
- Neil Diamond is 85 years old, born January 24, 1941 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Neil Diamond?
- Neil Diamond is an Aquarius: born January 24, 1941, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
- What is Neil Diamond's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 24, 1941 birth.
- What time was Neil Diamond born?
- 23:04 local time in Brooklyn, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Neil Diamond's rising sign?
- Libra rising, calculated from the documented 23:04 birth time in Brooklyn, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Neil Diamond?
- Neil Diamond is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Neil Diamond's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the January 24, 1941 birth date.
- What is Neil Diamond's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 27°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 24, 1941 birth time.
- Where is Neil Diamond's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°, in the seventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Neil Diamond's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (12.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon, Venus; 6 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
