Nia Long
Nia Long (born October 30, 1970, Brooklyn, United States), aged 56, is an American actress. Notable films include Michael, NCIS: Los Angeles and Spy.
Nia Long’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dog, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Nia
Nia Long’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Nia in the U.S.?
#702
US rank in 2025
~25,432
Americans share it since 1951
2000
its peak year
The SSA recorded 19 American girls named Nia in 1970: 3,397th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nia’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on N (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1970, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Nia apart
Nia Long was taught at Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets.
Nia Long was 21 when the work began in 1991.
Nia Long was born to Talita Long and Doughtry Long.
Wikipedia files Nia Long under Actors from Iowa City, Iowa, American women motivational speakers and Actresses from Iowa.
Diego Maradona (1960) and Ivanka Trump (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets
- Working from
- 1991
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 41
What the chart says
Nia, according to the stars
Core essence
Nia does not do surface. The core of Nia 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 Nia is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Nia feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Nia needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Nia wants to be loved
Nia wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Nia even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Nia creates
How Nia makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Nia creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Nia is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Nia 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Nia fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Nia's birth date. Working below.
Where Nia sits
Six lines
Nia’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 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 Nia Long
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alpheratz stood nearest the zenith over Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.1° above the horizon in Andromeda.
Of the 97 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual Nia's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Scorpio · No Fire planets · Venus retrograde
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 SunIntense, private, loyal.
Nia Long's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 30, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Nia Long was born on October 30, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Nia Long's birth date, October 30, 1970, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Nia’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nia Long's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Nia Long combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Nia’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Scorpio 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
Nia’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.8° to 2.4° orb
Nia’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn2.9° to 3.3° orb
Nia’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.1° to 4.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 6.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn5.6° to 5.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 6.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter7.1° to 7.9° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 1.7° to 14.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water6 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Nia’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°51′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 29°17′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 21°19′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 13°15′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 6°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Mars 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.5°
- Hygiea square Jupiter 1.1°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.2°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.6°
Nia’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Nia’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.4°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
More people like Nia
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Born in United States
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More charts like Nia’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Stephen GreenblattAmerican literary critic, theorist and scholar
- Colson WhiteheadAmerican novelist (born 1969)
- David RemnickAmerican journalist, writer and editor (born 1958)
Born in Dog years
- Eli SaslowAmerican journalist
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Also born on October 30
- Diego Maradona1960
- Ivanka Trump1981
- Devin Booker1996
- Ashley Graham1987
- Simon Doonan1952
- Harry Hamlin1951
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Jackson WangChinese rapper and singer
- Lil Uzi VertAmerican rapper
- Ester ExpósitoSpanish actress
Other Scorpio Dog charts
- Owen D. YoungAmerican businessman, lawyer, diplomat
- William ThurstonAmerican mathematician
- August KroghDanish physiologist
- Stanley CohenAmerican biochemist
Other Tidal Guardians
- Johnny MundtAmerican football tight end
- Jermar JeffersonAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Phidarian MathisAmerican football player
- Jake BoboAmerican football player
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Burt YoungAmerican actor
- Harve PresnellAmerican actor and singer
- Harry Dean StantonAmerican actor
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Nia’s cards
Computed from October 30, 1970. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272956 (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 MingleMediaTVNetwork, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nia Long 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 Nia Long.
Quick answers about Nia Long’s chart
- How old is Nia Long?
- Nia Long is 56 years old, born October 30, 1970 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Nia Long?
- Nia Long is a Scorpio: born October 30, 1970, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Nia Long's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 30, 1970 birth.
- What is Nia Long's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Nia Long's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Nia Long's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nia Long's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
