Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell (born October 7, 1959, Lambeth, England), aged 67, is an English television personality, businessman, producer, record executive. Cowell's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Simon Cowell’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Simon Cowell’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Simon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Simon apart
Niels Bohr (1885) and Desmond Tutu (1931) 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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Simon is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Simon is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Simon needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Simon wants to be loved
Simon wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Simon and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Simon creates
How Simon makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Simon 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: Simon is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Simon fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Simon's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Simon sits
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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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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Simon Cowell's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 7, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Simon Cowell was born on October 7, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Simon Cowell's birth date, October 7, 1959, 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 Cowell's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Simon Cowell combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Simon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Simon Cowell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Sagittarius 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.
stableMarssextileUranus0.4° to 1.1° orb
Simon’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
Simon’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.2° to 1.7° orb
Simon’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileNeptune1.9° to 2.3° orb
Simon’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.2° to 2.7° orb
Simon’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileSaturn3.1° to 4.6° orb
Simon’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableVenussquareJupiter3.3° to 3.6° orb
Simon’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSaturntrinePluto3.9° orb
Simon’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.5° orb
Simon’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquarePluto4.8° to 5.0° orb
Simon’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.3° to 7.2° orb
Simon’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunconjunctionMars7.0° to 7.4° orb
Simon’s core identity and drive act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 23°02′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Simon making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 6°04′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Simon is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosScorpio 22°43′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Simon is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaLeo 16°51′ (moves 0.28° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Simon at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 6°10′ (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 Simon 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.
- Ceres square Pluto 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.9°
- Ceres square Venus 2.3°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.4°
- Eros square Uranus 2.8°
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. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Simon is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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 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 semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.9°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Simon Cowell, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Also born on October 7
- Niels Bohr1885
- Desmond Tutu1931
- María Corina Machado1967
- Diego Costa1988
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Other Tidal Pioneers
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Simon’s cards
Every card is computed from October 7, 1959, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Simon Cowell, 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 Q162629, 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 Alison Martin of SimonCowellOnline.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Simon Cowell at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Cowell.
Quick answers about Simon Cowell’s chart
- How old is Simon Cowell?
- Simon Cowell is 67 years old, born October 7, 1959 in Lambeth, England.
- What zodiac sign is Simon Cowell?
- Simon Cowell is a Libra: born October 7, 1959, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Pig.
- What is Simon Cowell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 7, 1959 birth.
- What time was Simon Cowell 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.
- How tall is Simon Cowell?
- Simon Cowell is 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Simon Cowell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the October 7, 1959 birth date.
- What is Simon Cowell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 7, 1959 birth date.
- Where is Simon Cowell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Simon Cowell's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
