Nikki Reed
Nikki Reed (born Nicole Houston Reed; May 17, 1988, West Los Angeles, United States, 03:13), aged 38, is an American actress. Reed is best known for Sleepy Hollow, Mini's First Time and Lords of Dogtown. Reed's honours include Young Hollywood Awards.
Nikki Reed’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Nikki
Nikki Reed’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 Nikki in the U.S.?
#3504
US rank in 2025
~41,005
Americans share it since 1925
1972
its peak year
In 1988, 1,023 American girls and 38 boys were registered Nikki — 252nd among girls and 1,810th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nikki’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Nicole Houston Reed, not the name they published under.
4
Expression · building what holds
9
Soul Urge · meaning
22
Personality · quietly formidable
The name opens on N (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Nikki’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
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 1988, 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 Nikki apart
The Twilight Saga, Lords of Dogtown and Mini's First Time. That is the work the name is attached to.
Study took Nikki Reed to Alexander Hamilton High School.
Nikki Reed was 15 when the work began in 2003.
On the family side, Nikki Reed was married Ian Somerhalder.
On Wikipedia the categories read Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles) alumni, American people of Cherokee descent and Screenwriters from California.
Karrueche Tran shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- The Twilight Saga, Lords of Dogtown and Mini's First Time
- Educated at
- Alexander Hamilton High School
- Working from
- 2003
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 53
What the chart says
Nikki, according to the stars
Core essence
Nikki is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Nikki is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Nikki processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Nikki needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Nikki wants to be loved
Nikki wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Nikki like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Nikki creates
How Nikki makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Nikki 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: Nikki is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Nikki 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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Nikki goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Nikki's birth date. Working below.
Where Nikki sits
Six lines
Nikki’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to Nikki Reed
Three stars chosen from the real sky above West Los Angeles on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above West Los Angeles at 03:13, Nikki Reed’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over West Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at West Los Angeles at the birth hour: Vega of Lyra, within 8.6° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
West Los Angeles sits at 34.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −56.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from West Los Angeles on any night.
The Moon was at new moon, 3% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Nicole Houston Reed
- Known as
- Nikki Reed
- Born in
- West Los Angeles, United States
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Nikki's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Lunar Star 太陰 in 卯
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 3/5
Emotional authority · Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
50 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Gemini · 2 planets at a critical degree · No Fire planets
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.
Score your own chart →Nikki Reed in 15 seconds
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Nikki Reed's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What Taurus means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonBorn for the big room.
Nikki Reed was born on May 17, 1988, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Nikki Reed's birth date, May 17, 1988, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Nikki’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Nikki Reed's timed chart: Saturn in the 10th house, Uranus in the 10th house and Neptune in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Nikki Reed's timed chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Moon, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Nikki Reed 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.
Nikki’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunsquareMarsapplying · 0.1° orb
Nikki’s core identity grinds against their drive.
VenusoppositionUranusapplying · 0.4° orb
Nikki’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 0.9° orb
Nikki’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturnconjunctionUranusapplying · 1.2° orb
VenusoppositionSaturnapplying · 1.6° orb
VenustrineMarsapplying · 3.1° orb
MoonconjunctionMercuryapplying · 3.3° orb
MarssextileUranusapplying · 3.5° orb
MarssextileSaturnapplying · 4.7° orb
JupiteroppositionPlutoseparating · 5.4° orb
JupitertrineNeptuneseparating · 6.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Nikki’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironGemini 26°52′ · House 3
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 19°56′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 18°42′ · House 12
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 1°23′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 0°20′ · House 6
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Mars 0.0°
- Eros square Mercury 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.0°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.1°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.6°
Nikki’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Moon, Venus; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Nikki’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Moon, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.4°
- Moon semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 1.2°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.2°
- Moon biquintile Pluto 1.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 2.0°
Nikki’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aries | Mars in Aquarius, house 11 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Taurus | Venus in Gemini, house 3 | Sun, Jupiter | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Gemini | Mercury in Gemini, house 3 | Moon, Mercury, Venus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Cancer | Moon in Gemini, house 3 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Leo | Sun in Taurus, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Virgo | Mercury in Gemini, house 3 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Libra | Venus in Gemini, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Scorpio | Pluto in Scorpio, house 8 | Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Taurus, house 2 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 10 | Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Aquarius | Uranus in Capricorn, house 10 | Mars | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Pisces | Neptune in Capricorn, house 10 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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One relative of Nikki Reed also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Nikki
Karrueche Tran was born on May 17, 1988 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. West Los Angeles sits at 34.0°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Taurus suns
- Kayshon BoutteAmerican football wide receiver
- Rashee RiceAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Tylan WallaceAmerican football player
Born in Dragon years
- Boris JohnsonPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
- Maya AngelouAmerican poet, author, and civil rights activist
- Orhan PamukTurkish novelist, academic and Nobel laureate
Also born on May 17
- Edward Jenner1749
- Enya1961
- Trent Reznor1965
- Ross Butler1990
- Adel Emam1940
- Karrueche Tran1988
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Christian W.E. HaubGerman businessman (born 1964)
- Anand MahindraIndian businessman, born 1955
- Dan FriedkinAmerican businessman
Other Taurus Dragon charts
- Logan HallAmerican football player (born 2000)
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- Jalen BrooksAmerican football player
- Michael Penix Jr.American football player (born 2000)
Other Tidal Guardians
- Nev SchulmanAmerican television host, producer and photographer
- Fred SavageAmerican actor and director (born 1976)
- Jimmy TatroAmerican actor, writer, comedian, and producer
- Candy SpellingAmerican socialite, writer, and television personality
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Nikki’s cards
Computed from May 17, 1988. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nikki’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q234847 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nikki Reed at Wikipedia, bayouwithlove.com, 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 Nikki Reed.
Quick answers about Nikki Reed’s chart
- How old is Nikki Reed?
- Nikki Reed is 38 years old, born May 17, 1988 in West Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Nikki Reed?
- Nikki Reed is a Taurus: born May 17, 1988, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
- What is Nikki Reed's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 17, 1988 birth.
- What time was Nikki Reed born?
- 03:13 local time in West Los Angeles, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Nikki Reed's rising sign?
- Aries rising, calculated from the documented 03:13 birth time in West Los Angeles, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Nikki Reed?
- Nikki Reed is 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Nikki Reed's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Nikki Reed's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 26°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Nikki Reed's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 0°, in the sixth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Nikki Reed's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
