Nina Simone
Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933, Tryon, United States; died 2003), was an American singer, songwriter and pianist and civil rights activist. Simone is best remembered for To Be Young, Gifted and Black and Feeling Good. Simone's honours include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and honorary doctorate.
Nina Simone’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Nina
Nina Simone’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Nina in the U.S.?
#324
US rank in 2025
~134,038
Americans share it since 1880
1980
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1933, Nina came 177th, carried by 976 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Nina’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Eunice Kathleen Waymon, not the name they published under.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on E (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
Nina’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1933, 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 Nina apart
What keeps Nina Simone in print: Feeling Good and To Be Young, Gifted and Black.
Training came by way of Allen School and Juilliard School.
The working life starts in 1954, at 21.
Cause of death is recorded as breast cancer.
On the family side, Nina Simone was married Andy Stroud and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Nina Simone: African and Black nationalists, American expatriates in Liberia and African-American pianists.
W. H. Auden (1907) and Alan Rickman (1946) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Feeling Good and To Be Young, Gifted and Black
- Educated at
- Allen School and Juilliard School
- Instruments
- voice and piano
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2018)
- Working from
- 1954
- Cause of death
- breast cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 85
What the chart says
Nina, according to the stars
Core essence
Nina feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Nina is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
How Nina wants to be loved
Nina wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Nina be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Nina creates
How Nina makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Nina creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Nina is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Nina 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Nina channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Nina's birth date. Working below.
Where Nina sits
Six lines
Nina’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 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 Nina Simone
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tryon 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 Tryon that night
Computed for 35.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Tryon at 9 p.m. that evening: Mebsuta of Gemini, within 10.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 35.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Tryon at all: they sit past the −54.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 33° below the horizon, Moon down and 7% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Eunice Kathleen Waymon
- Known as
- Nina Simone
- Born in
- Tryon, United States
The death is recorded at Carry-le-Rouet, canton of Marignane in 2003.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Nina Simone: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Nina's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Uranus · Mars 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 →The quick version
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
Nina Simone's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 21, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Nina Simone was born on February 21, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Nina Simone's birth date, February 21, 1933, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Nina’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Nina Simone's date-only chart is Mercury opposition Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Nina Simone combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Nina’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMercuryoppositionMars0.0° to 1.2° orb
Nina’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranussquarePluto0.9° orb
Nina’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Nina’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableVenussextileUranus2.3° to 3.5° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.9° to 5.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune4.8° to 5.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter5.5° to 7.4° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.8° to 6.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 6.5° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Nina’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 23°48′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 1°46′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 19°42′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 26°28′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°54′ (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 0.3°
- Eros square Jupiter 0.6°
- Ceres conjunction Sun 0.9°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.0°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.2°
Nina’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Nina’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.4°
More people like Nina
Other singers
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- Tony Bennett1926
- Luciano Pavarotti1935
- Fayard Nicholas1914
- Susse Wold1938
- David K. Shipler1942
Born in United States
- Quincy JonesAmerican record producer and composer
- Chita RiveraAmerican actress, dancer and singer
- Philip RothAmerican novelist
- Marian IlitchAmerican businessman, entrepreneur and billionaire
- Jayne MansfieldAmerican actress
- Walter PincusAmerican journalist
More charts like Nina’s
Fellow Pisces suns
- Krepin DiattaSenegalese association football player
- Mert GünokTurkish association football player (born 1989)
- Pedro NetoPortuguese footballer (born 2000)
Born in Rooster years
- Jordan SpiethAmerican professional golfer
- Cameron SmithAustralian professional golfer
- Fernando AlonsoSpanish racing driver
Also born on February 21
- W. H. Auden1907
- Alan Rickman1946
- Elliot Page1987
- Riyad Mahrez1991
- Sophie Turner1996
- Jennifer Love Hewitt1979
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Tremon SmithAmerican football player
- George OdumAmerican football player (born 1993)
- Foster MoreauAmerican football player (born 1997)
Other Pisces Rooster charts
- Lleyton HewittAustralian tennis player and tennis coach
- Alexander McQueenBritish fashion designer
- Steve WitkoffAmerican businessman and diplomat
- Gianni AgnelliItalian businessman; grandson of FIAT's founder
Other Steadfast Healers
- Mia FarrowAmerican actress
- Paulina GretzkyAmerican pop singer and model
- Olivia HoltAmerican actress and singer (born 1997)
- Lukas GageAmerican actor and writer
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Jimmy TatroAmerican actor, writer, comedian, and producer
- Colton UnderwoodAmerican television personality
- Candy SpellingAmerican socialite, writer, and television personality
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Nina’s cards
Computed from February 21, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Nina’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q174957 (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 Ron Kroon for Anefo Restored by Bammesk, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Nina Simone at Wikipedia, ninasimone.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Nina Simone.
Quick answers about Nina Simone’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Nina Simone?
- Nina Simone was a Pisces: born February 21, 1933, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was Nina Simone's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 21, 1933 birth.
- What was Nina Simone's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Nina Simone's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Nina Simone's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Nina Simone's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
