Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman (born November 10, 1960, Portchester, United Kingdom), aged 65, is an English writer (born 1960). Gaiman is best known for The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Graveyard Book and Stardust. Gaiman's honours include Bram Stoker Award for Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novel and Carnegie Medal.
Neil Gaiman’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rat, with 
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Neil Gaiman’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, 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
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
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 does not do surface. The core of Neil is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Neil is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Neil needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Neil needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Neil wants to be loved
Neil wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Neil and watch them fall for you again.
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 quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Neil is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Neil leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Neil does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Neil's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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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Neil Gaiman in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Neil Gaiman's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 10, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Neil Gaiman was born on November 10, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Neil Gaiman's birth date, November 10, 1960, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in Neil’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Neil Gaiman's date-only chart is Sun trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Neil Gaiman combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
Neil’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Neil Gaiman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Leo 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.
stableSuntrineMars0.0° to 0.6° orb
Neil’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableVenustrineUranus0.9° to 2.1° orb
Neil’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
Neil’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.9° to 3.1° orb
Neil’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.0° to 3.1° orb
Neil’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableMercurysextilePluto3.3° to 4.4° orb
Neil’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileSaturn3.4° to 4.3° orb
Neil’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.7° orb
Neil’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableJupitertrinePluto5.0° to 5.2° orb
Neil’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.3° to 7.4° orb
Neil’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineMars5.5° to 6.8° orb
Neil’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb
Neil’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air 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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°25′
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.
⚳ CeresAquarius 18°37′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Neil is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosLeo 22°23′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Neil loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaLibra 23°23′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Neil is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Neil guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 square Sun 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.7°
- Eros trine Venus 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 2.8°
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. ♇ Pluto10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Pluto; 5 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Neil is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Neil Gaiman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Neil
Mary Jordan was born on November 10, 1960 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Neil’s cards
Every card is computed from November 10, 1960, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Neil Gaiman, 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 Q210059, 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 Kyle Cassidy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Neil Gaiman at Wikipedia, neilgaiman.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Neil Gaiman.
Quick answers about Neil Gaiman’s chart
- How old is Neil Gaiman?
- Neil Gaiman is 65 years old, born November 10, 1960 in Portchester, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Neil Gaiman?
- Neil Gaiman is a Scorpio: born November 10, 1960, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rat.
- What is Neil Gaiman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 10, 1960 birth.
- What time was Neil Gaiman 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 Gaiman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the November 10, 1960 birth date.
- What is Neil Gaiman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 10, 1960 birth date.
- Where is Neil Gaiman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Neil Gaiman's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
