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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rabbit, with 
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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
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
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 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 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, 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 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.
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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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Neil Simon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 21° Virgo 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.
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
Neil’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.2° to 1.4° orb
Neil’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune1.5° to 2.4° orb
Neil’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturntrineUranus1.6° orb
Neil’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionPluto3.2° to 4.2° orb
Neil’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareSaturn4.2° to 5.2° orb
Neil’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune6.7° to 6.8° orb
Neil’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 5°29′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Neil building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 8°33′ (moves 0.13° 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.
♡ ErosCancer 19°24′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Neil is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaLibra 9°02′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Neil is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 13°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Neil that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.8°
- Hygiea square Sun 2.6°
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. ☉ 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
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Neil is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Neil Simon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Neil’s family here
One relative of Neil Simon also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Neil’s cards
Every card is computed from July 4, 1927, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for Neil Simon, 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 Q315808, 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.
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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit.
- 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 time was Neil Simon 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 Simon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 4, 1927 birth date.
- What was Neil Simon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 4, 1927 birth date.
- 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.
