Nia Long
Nia Long (born October 30, 1970, Brooklyn, United States), aged 55, is an American actress. Notable films include Michael, NCIS: Los Angeles and Spy.
Nia Long’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dog, with 
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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 1880
2000
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Nia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Nia Long, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Scorpio 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.
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
Nia’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 6.1° orb
Nia’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn5.6° to 5.9° orb
Nia’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 6.8° orb
Nia’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter7.1° to 7.9° orb
Nia’s core identity and growth act as one.
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
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 ℞Aries 6°51′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Nia may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 29°17′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Nia looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosCapricorn 21°19′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Nia is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaLeo 13°15′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Nia at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 6°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Nia exacting with themselves first.
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 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°
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°).
Nia’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. ♇ 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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Nia is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Nia’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 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 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-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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nia Long, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Nia’s cards
Every card is computed from October 30, 1970, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Nia Long, 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
Nia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272956, 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 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. 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 Nia Long.
Quick answers about Nia Long’s chart
- How old is Nia Long?
- Nia Long is 55 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog.
- 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 time was Nia Long 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 is Nia Long's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the October 30, 1970 birth date.
- What is Nia Long's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 30, 1970 birth date.
- 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.
