Neil Simon
Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927, New York City, United States; died 2018), was an American playwright, writer, and academic. Simon is best remembered for Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Lost in Yonkers. Simon's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and Kennedy Center Honors.
Neil Simon’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Neil
Neil Simon’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 609 American boys named Neil in 1927: 221st 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
11
Soul Urge · insight
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet
The record
What sets Neil apart
Post Malone (1995) and Michael Sorrentino (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Neil, according to the stars
Core essence
Neil feels the room before entering it. The core of Neil is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Neil, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Neil is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Neil needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Neil wants to be loved
Neil wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Neil openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Neil creates
How Neil makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Neil creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Neil is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Neil is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Neil fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Simon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 13.5° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 32% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 5° below the horizon.
How unusual Neil's chart is
Chart pattern score
63 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Leo · Grand trine · Only two elements
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Neil Simon's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 4, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Neil Simon's birth date, July 4, 1927, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Neil’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Neil Simon's date-only chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Air.
- Neil Simon combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Neil’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Virgo 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
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.2° to 0.4° orb
Neil’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.5° orb
Neil’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.8° orb
Neil’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.0° to 1.1° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus1.2° to 1.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.5° to 2.4° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus1.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.2° to 4.2° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.0° to 6.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire7 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 5°29′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 8°33′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 19°24′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 9°02′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 13°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.8°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.6°
Neil’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Pluto
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
5 major aspects
Configurations in Neil’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Mercury, Venus, Mars, 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.
Grand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Mercury, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.2°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
Neil’s family here
One relative of Neil Simon also has a chart on AsterNym.
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More charts like Neil’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Megan RapinoeAmerican soccer player (born 1985)
- Courtney RobertsonAmerican model
- Sarah PidgeonAmerican actress
Born in Rabbit years
- Ted KooserAmerican poet
- Ernest Cook PooleAmerican journalist and novelist
- Anthony DavisAmerican pianist and composer
Also born on July 4
- Post Malone1995
- Michael Sorrentino1981
- Douglas Leone1957
- Becki Newton1978
- Alyssa Miller1989
- Malia Obama1998
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- RuPaulAmerican drag performer, actor, and musician
- Lauren GrahamAmerican actress, producer and novelist
- Golshifteh FarahaniIranian actress and musician
Other Cancer Rabbit charts
- Collin GillespieAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Jamaree BouyeaAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
- Li ShufuChinese billionaire entrepreneur (born 1963)
- John DoerrAmerican businessman
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Tom HiddlestonEnglish actor
- RobinhoBrazilian former association football player
- Philippe CoutinhoBrazilian association football player
- Alexis SánchezChilean footballer
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Ron DeSantisAmerican politician (born 1978)
- Fidel CastroCuban politician, author and revolutionary
- Ruben GallegoAmerican politician (born 1979)
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Neil’s cards
Computed from July 4, 1927. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Neil’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q315808 (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 New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Neil Simon at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Simon.
Quick answers about Neil Simon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Neil Simon?
- Neil Simon was a Cancer: born July 4, 1927, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Neil Simon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 4, 1927 birth.
- What was Neil Simon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Neil Simon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Neil Simon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Neil Simon's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Moon is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
