Neil Sheehan
Neil Sheehan (born October 27, 1936, Holyoke, United States; died 2021), was an American writer, historian, soldier. Sheehan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Neil Sheehan’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Neil
Neil Sheehan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
In 1936, 913 American boys were registered Neil — 158th 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.
1
Expression · starting things
7
Soul Urge · understanding
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
11 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Crimson · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1936, 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
The The Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism came in 1972, when Neil Sheehan was 36.
The schooling ran through Northfield Mount Hermon School and Harvard University.
Cause of death is recorded as Parkinson's disease.
On Wikipedia the categories read Writers from Holyoke, Massachusetts, Historians of the Vietnam War and Military personnel from Massachusetts.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Northfield Mount Hermon School and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1988), National Book Award for Nonfiction (1988) and The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism (1989)
- Cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 15
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.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Neil channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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.
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 Sheehan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Holyoke 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 Holyoke that night
Computed for 42.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Holyoke was Alpheratz, in Andromeda, 75.2° up.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 95 catalog stars above the horizon.
Holyoke sits at 42.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −47.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Holyoke on any night.
The Moon, 93% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Holyoke, United States
The death is recorded at Washington, D.C., District of Columbia in 2021.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Neil Sheehan: 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
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Jupiter
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.
Score your own chart →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Neil Sheehan's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 27, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Neil Sheehan was born on October 27, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Neil Sheehan's birth date, October 27, 1936, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Neil’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Neil Sheehan's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Neil Sheehan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Neil’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 5° Pisces or Aries 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
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.7° to 1.3° orb
Neil’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.3° to 2.8° orb
Neil’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.9° to 2.0° orb
Neil’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.6° to 3.3° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter3.2° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.8° to 5.8° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.3° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.6° to 14.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Neil’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 22°56′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 14°33′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 24°24′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 2°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 1.5°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.7°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.4°
Neil’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Neil’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Mars 0.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.1°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.4°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 2.2°
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- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva1945
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Neil’s cards
Computed from October 27, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
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 Q1238740 (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.
The same Neil Sheehan at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Neil Sheehan.
Quick answers about Neil Sheehan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Neil Sheehan?
- Neil Sheehan was a Scorpio: born October 27, 1936, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Neil Sheehan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 27, 1936 birth.
- What was Neil Sheehan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Neil Sheehan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Neil Sheehan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Neil Sheehan's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
