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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, Chinese zodiac is Water Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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.?

#230

US rank in 2025

~70,444

Americans share it since 1880

2015

its peak year

The SSA recorded 211 American boys named Simon in 1963: 549th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Simon’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Simon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Simon apart

Miles Davis (1926) and Sally Ride (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Simon sits

Six lines

Simon’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Simon

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Simon

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Simon

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Simon

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Simon

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Simon

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Huddersfield on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Simon’s birth-night reference starPhecdablue-white · Ursa MajorPhecda, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 87.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Phecda →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 28.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Huddersfield that night

Computed for 53.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Huddersfield at 9 p.m. that evening: Phecda of Ursa Major, within 2.3° of the exact zenith.

Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Huddersfield sits at 53.6°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 18% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -2° below the horizon.

How unusual Simon's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Mercury · 1 unaspected planet

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Gemini Sun

Four 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.

What Gemini means →

Water Rabbit

Gentle, and never cornered.

Simon Armitage was born on May 26, 1963, which falls in a Water Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Simon Armitage's birth date, May 26, 1963, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Simon’s chart

Simon’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 26° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.6° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.7° orbMars faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 3.1° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.2° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 3.2° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 3.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.2° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.8° orbSun in Gemini · 4°29′☉4°Moon in Cancer · 19°12′☽19°Mercury in Taurus · 22°24′ · retrograde☿℞22°Venus in Taurus · 8°57′♀8°Mars in Leo · 26°11′♂26°Jupiter in Aries · 11°28′♃11°Saturn in Aquarius · 23°04′♄23°Uranus in Virgo · 1°17′♅1°Neptune in Scorpio · 13°44′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Virgo · 9°33′♇9°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableMercurysquareMars3.4° to 4.2° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune4.2° to 5.4° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb

  • stableSunsquarePluto4.6° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.9° to 5.3° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 14°40′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 9°12′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 2°49′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 26°52′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 3°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Simon’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Simon’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.3°
  • Uranus quintile Neptune 0.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.9°
  • Jupiter quincunx Neptune 2.3°

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Simon’s cards

Computed from May 26, 1963. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Simon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1981093 (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 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. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Simon Armitage's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Simon Armitage's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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