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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Neil
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
In 1960, 1,446 American boys were registered Neil — 199th 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
7
Soul Urge · understanding
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, 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
American Gods, Coraline and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. That is the work the name is attached to.
Neil Gaiman was 24 when the work began in 1984.
Neil Gaiman was born to David Gaiman and married Amanda Palmer.
Mary Jordan shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- American Gods, Coraline and The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Awards
- Bram Stoker Award for Novel (2001), Nebula Award for Best Novel (2003) and Hugo Award for Best Novella (2003)
- Nominated for
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature and Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
- Working from
- 1984
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 82
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. Working below.
Where Neil sits
Six lines
Neil’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Gaiman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Portchester 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 Portchester that night
Computed for 50.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Portchester was Schedar, in Cassiopeia, 83.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 100 catalog stars were up in all.
Portchester sits at 50.8°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −39.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 57% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.
How unusual Neil's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart · No Air planets
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.
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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.
What Scorpio means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Leo 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
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
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.0° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSunsextileSaturn3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.7° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.3° to 7.4° orb
stableMercurytrineMars5.5° to 6.8° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.3° to 6.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 27°25′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 18°37′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 22°23′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 23°23′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Neil’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Neil’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-square Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.3°
Born the same day as Neil
Mary Jordan was born on November 10, 1960 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. From Portchester, at 50.8°N, Capella and Deneb are circumpolar. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Neil
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Born in United Kingdom
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- Vera Michalskibook publisher
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Born in Rat years
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- Sasha FarberAustralian and American professional dancer
Also born on November 10
- Brittany Murphy1977
- João Félix1999
- Ellen Pompeo1969
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Brittany FurlanAmerican comedian
- Brian Austin GreenAmerican actor
- Corey HaimCanadian actor
Other Scorpio Rat charts
- Alfred Hermann FriedAustrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- William Daniel Phillipsphysics Nobel laureate
- Neil SheehanAmerican writer, historian, soldier
- Ann Telnaescartoonist
Other Tidal Scholars
- Nahuel MolinaArgentine association football player
- Marco FriedlAustrian footballer
- Jesús GallardoMexican association football player
- Nicolás GonzálezArgentine association football player (born 1998)
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Seiji OzawaJapanese orchestra conductor
- James TaylorAmerican singer and guitarist
- James LevineAmerican conductor and pianist
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Neil’s cards
Computed from November 10, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Neil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q210059 (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 Kyle Cassidy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
- 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 is Neil Gaiman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Neil Gaiman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
