Neil deGrasse Tyson's Birth Chart
Neil deGrasse Tyson was born on October 5, 1958 in New York, NY. The chart has the Sun in Libra and the Moon in Cancer. No birth time is on record for Neil deGrasse Tyson, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
| Born | October 5, 1958 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | New York, NY |
Neil deGrasse Tyson's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Libra: Weighed Against Another
You find out who you are in relation to someone else. Identity sharpens in dialogue, in the friction and the fit of another person, and on your own the picture can blur. People experience you as fair, pleasant and easy to be around, and they do not see how much effort that ease costs. You have a keen sense of proportion and of ugliness, whether in a room, an argument or a deal, and a decision with no one to weigh it against can sit unmade for months.
Moon in Cancer: Shell and Tide
Feeling is your first language, and you register the temperature of a room before anyone speaks. You need a place and people that are yours, and safety is measured in who stays. Memory holds everything, the kindness and the slight, with the same clarity years later. You look after others by instinct, often before you are asked, and you retreat just as instinctively when hurt, going quiet rather than loud. Home is less an address than a feeling you carry and rebuild wherever you land.
No birth time is on record for Neil deGrasse Tyson, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
Planet positions in Neil deGrasse Tyson's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 11°25′ to 12°24′ |
| Moon | Cancer | 1°02′ to 13°42′ |
| Mercury | Libra | 11°08′ to 12°53′ |
| Venus | Libra | 1°50′ to 3°05′ |
| Mars | Gemini | 2°20′ to 2°24′ |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 5°27′ to 5°40′ |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 20°30′ to 20°34′ |
| Uranus | Leo | 15°20′ to 15°23′ |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 3°40′ to 3°42′ |
| Pluto | Virgo | 3°18′ to 3°19′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Libra | 22°20′ to 22°20′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Aquarius | 17°56′ to 17°54′ |
With no birth time, each degree is given as the span the planet covered over the day of birth.
Element and modality balance
Only planets that stayed in one sign throughout the birth day are counted.
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 2, Earth 1, Air 4, Water 3. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 3, Mutable 3.
A air emphasis
An air emphasis makes you mental, social, and idea-driven: you live in thought, communication, and connection, weighing things from a distance.
A cardinal emphasis
A cardinal emphasis makes you an initiator: you start things, push for change, and prefer to lead rather than wait.
The tightest aspects in Neil deGrasse Tyson's chart
- Sun conjunct Mercury, orb 0°29′
- Venus trine Mars, orb 0°41′
- Mars square Pluto, orb 0°58′
- Saturn sextile North Node, orb 1°50′
- Jupiter conjunct Neptune, orb 1°58′
- Jupiter sextile Pluto, orb 2°20′
- Uranus opposite Chiron, orb 2°35′
- Saturn sextile Chiron, orb 2°39′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Sun conjunct Mercury: Thinking Out Loud
Your identity and your thinking sit in the same room, so you become the thing you're currently thinking about. Ideas feel like personal statements, and being corrected on a fact lands like being corrected on who you are. It makes you quick, articulate, and visible through what you say rather than what you do quietly.
Venus trine Mars: Effortless Physical Charm
Attraction and drive run into each other without any friction, which is why you rarely notice it working. Flirtation, competition, art and physical effort all come out smoother than they do for other people. The catch is that this amplifies whatever pattern is already running, so a bad appetite gets the same easy ride as a good one.
Mars square Pluto: Force Meets Obsession
You don't do casual effort. Every push you make picks up an undertow of obsession, and every buried thing in you eventually looks for a body to act through. The pressure between speed and depth shows up as sudden force after long silence, or as fights that are never about the surface topic. It builds a stamina most people can't match and a temper that surprises even you.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Neil deGrasse Tyson's recorded date and place of birth. Without a birth time the rising sign and houses are unknown. Sun and Moon signs are stated only when they held true for the whole day. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.