Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage (born May 26, 1963, Huddersfield, United Kingdom), aged 63, is a British poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1963). Armitage has served as Booker Prize judge and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Armitage's honours include Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Cholmondeley Award and Eric Gregory Award.
Simon Armitage’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Rabbit, with 
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Simon Armitage’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Simon in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~70,444
Americans share it since 1880
2015
its peak year
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Simon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Simon, according to the stars
Core essence
Simon is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Simon needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Simon is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Simon needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Simon wants to be loved
Simon wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Simon is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Simon creates
How Simon makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Simon creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Simon is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Simon is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Simon fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Simon's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Simon Armitage's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 26, 1963, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Water Rabbit
Water RabbitGentle, and never cornered.
Simon Armitage was born on May 26, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Simon Armitage's birth date, May 26, 1963, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Simon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Simon Armitage's date-only chart is Venus trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Simon Armitage combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Simon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Simon Armitage, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 26° Cancer 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.
stableVenustrinePluto0.0° to 1.2° orb
Simon’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.5° to 0.8° orb
Simon’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsquareUranus2.7° to 3.7° orb
Simon’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn2.9° to 3.4° orb
Simon’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareMars3.4° to 4.2° orb
Simon’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.2° to 5.4° orb
Simon’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb
Simon’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquarePluto4.6° to 5.5° orb
Simon’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.9° to 5.3° orb
Simon’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.8° to 14.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Simon’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 14°40′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Simon absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresVirgo 9°12′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Simon caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosAquarius 2°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Simon is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaAries 26°52′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Simon feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 3°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Simon is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- Ceres trine Venus 0.3°
- Ceres conjunction Pluto 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.7°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.9°
- Eros trine Sun 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.7°
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°).
Simon’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Simon is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Simon’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.
T-square onto Mercury · Mars, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.3°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.9°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Simon Armitage, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Simon’s cards
Every card is computed from May 26, 1963, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Simon Armitage, 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
Simon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1981093, 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 Paul Hudson from United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Simon Armitage at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Simon Armitage.
Quick answers about Simon Armitage’s chart
- How old is Simon Armitage?
- Simon Armitage is 63 years old, born May 26, 1963 in Huddersfield, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Simon Armitage?
- Simon Armitage is a Gemini: born May 26, 1963, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Rabbit.
- What is Simon Armitage's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 26, 1963 birth.
- What time was Simon Armitage 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 Simon Armitage's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 26, 1963 birth date.
- What is Simon Armitage's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 26, 1963 birth date.
- Where is Simon Armitage's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Simon Armitage's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
