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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rooster, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Nina’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, 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 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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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. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Nina Simone, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
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
Nina’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.9° to 5.8° orb
Nina’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune4.8° to 5.2° orb
Nina’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter5.5° to 7.4° orb
Nina’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.8° to 6.9° orb
Nina’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 6.5° orb
Nina’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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 23°48′ (moves 0.02° 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 Nina building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 1°46′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Nina is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosSagittarius 19°42′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Nina attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 26°28′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Nina carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Nina that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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 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°
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°).
Nina’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. ♆ 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
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: Nina is read as tuned to what is not said.
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 Nina’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Nina Simone, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Nina’s cards
Every card is computed from February 21, 1933, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Nina Simone, 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
Nina’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q174957, 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rooster.
- 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 time was Nina Simone 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 Nina Simone's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the February 21, 1933 birth date.
- What was Nina Simone's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 21, 1933 birth date.
- 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.
