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Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973, Albuquerque, United States), aged 53, is an American actor. Harris is best known for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, How I Met Your Mother and Glee. Harris's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and Drama League Award.

Neil Patrick Harris’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Neil Patrick Harris’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Explorer

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, 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

The SSA recorded 1,297 American boys and 6 girls named Neil in 1973: 182nd among boys and 8,094th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Neil’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

7

Soul Urge · understanding

22

Personality · quietly formidable

The name opens on N (5) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Neil apart

The record Neil Patrick Harris is measured by: 8-Bit Christmas, How I Met Your Mother and Glee.

The schooling ran through La Cueva High School.

Neil Patrick Harris was 14 when the work began in 1987.

On the family side, Neil Patrick Harris was married David Burtka.

Xi Jinping (1953) and Mohamed Salah (1992) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
8-Bit Christmas, How I Met Your Mother and Glee
Educated at
La Cueva High School
Instruments
voice
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (2010) and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (2014)
Working from
1987
Wikipedia editions
72

What the chart says

Neil, according to the stars

Core essence

Neil is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Neil needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Neil is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Neil needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Neil wants to be loved

Neil wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Neil gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

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 steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Neil is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Neil slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Neil

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Neil

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Neil

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Neil

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Neil

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Neil

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Neil Patrick Harris

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Albuquerque on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Neil’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 82.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 15.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Albuquerque that night

Computed for 35.08°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Albuquerque was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 82.1° up.

Of the 84 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Albuquerque sits at 35.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −54.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Albuquerque on any night.

Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Albuquerque, United States
Lives in
East Hampton

Wikidata records East Hampton as Neil Patrick Harris'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 Patrick Harris: 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

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mars · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth 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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The quick version

Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

Neil Patrick Harris's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 15, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Water Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Neil Patrick Harris was born on June 15, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Neil Patrick Harris's birth date, June 15, 1973, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Neil’s chart

Neil’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 0.3° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.7° orbMoon faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.9° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 1.2° orbSun grinds against Mars · Square, 2.1° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.4° orbMoon grinds against Mars · Square, 3.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun in Gemini · 24°28′☉24°Moon in Sagittarius · 23°19′☽23°Mercury in Cancer · 18°17′☿18°Venus in Cancer · 12°10′♀12°Mars in Pisces · 26°37′♂26°Jupiter in Aquarius · 11°44′ · retrograde♃℞11°Saturn in Gemini · 24°10′♄24°Uranus in Libra · 18°59′ · retrograde♅℞18°Neptune in Sagittarius · 5°33′ · retrograde♆℞5°Pluto in Libra · 1°41′♇1°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunoppositionMoon0.0° to 6.6° orb

    Neil’s core identity pulls against their feelings from across the wheel.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Neil’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Neil’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.1° to 6.7° orb

  • stableSunsquareMars2.0° to 2.3° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn2.2° to 2.7° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto3.9° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto4.7° to 5.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineUranus5.0° to 6.0° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.1° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.1° to 6.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Neil’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 20°16′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 7°45′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosLeo 11°26′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 25°53′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 23°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Jupiter 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.0°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 1.3°
  • Hygiea trine Sun 1.4°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 1.7°
  • Chiron square Mercury 2.0°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.2°

Neil’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon4 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Neil’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
  • Venus quincunx Jupiter 0.4°
  • Venus biquintile Neptune 0.6°
  • Mercury quintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.6°

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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong

Neil’s cards

Computed from June 15, 1973. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Neil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q485310 (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 PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Neil Patrick Harris 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 Patrick Harris.

Quick answers about Neil Patrick Harris’s chart

How old is Neil Patrick Harris?
Neil Patrick Harris is 53 years old, born June 15, 1973 in Albuquerque, United States.
What zodiac sign is Neil Patrick Harris?
Neil Patrick Harris is a Gemini: born June 15, 1973, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Neil Patrick Harris's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 15, 1973 birth.
What is Neil Patrick Harris's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Neil Patrick Harris's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Neil Patrick Harris's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Neil Patrick Harris's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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