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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rat, with 
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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
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
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
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.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Neil sits
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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 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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. 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.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for Neil Sheehan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 5° Pisces or Aries 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.
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
Neil’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSunoppositionUranus3.1° to 4.1° orb
Neil’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMarssquareJupiter3.2° to 3.7° orb
Neil’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.4° to 4.6° orb
Neil’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquarePluto4.8° to 5.8° orb
Neil’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.3° to 6.5° orb
Neil’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 22°56′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Neil turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 14°33′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
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.
♡ ErosScorpio 24°24′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Neil is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. Neil is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 2°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Neil is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- 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°
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. ♃ 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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Neil is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Neil Sheehan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Neil’s cards
Every card is computed from October 27, 1936, 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
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
No birth time is on public record for Neil Sheehan, 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 Q1238740, 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.
The same Neil Sheehan at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rat.
- 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 time was Neil Sheehan 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 was Neil Sheehan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the October 27, 1936 birth date.
- What was Neil Sheehan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 27, 1936 birth date.
- 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.
