Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn (born May 9, 1921, Waterloo, United States; died 2004), was an American poet. Duyn is best remembered for Near Changes and Firefall. Duyn's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Mona Van Duyn’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Rooster, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Mona
Mona Van Duyn’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Mona in the U.S.?
#2806
US rank in 2025
~45,818
Americans share it since 1880
1957
its peak year
Mona ranked 386th in 1921, the year of this birth, with 301 American girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Mona’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
11
Soul Urge · insight
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 5: craft against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Mona’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
The record
What sets Mona apart
Shaboozey (1995) and Willyrex (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Mona, according to the stars
Core essence
Mona is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Mona is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Mona processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Mona needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Mona wants to be loved
Mona wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Mona creates
How Mona makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Mona 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: Mona 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Mona is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Mona scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Mona's birth date. Working below.
Where Mona sits
Six lines
Mona’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Mona Van Duyn
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Waterloo on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Waterloo that night
Computed for 42.49°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Waterloo was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 82.1° up.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Waterloo on any night.
Sun 7° below the horizon, Moon up and 6% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Mona's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · 1 unaspected planet · Venus retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →Mona Van Duyn at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Mona Van Duyn's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 9, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterCandid to a fault.
Mona Van Duyn was born on May 9, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Mona Van Duyn's birth date, May 9, 1921, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Mona’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Mona Van Duyn's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Mona Van Duyn combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
Mona’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSuntrineSaturn0.0° to 0.9° orb
Mona’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.0° to 1.6° orb
Mona’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.2° orb
Mona’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.3° to 1.5° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto1.7° orb
stableUranustrinePluto1.9° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.1° to 6.7° orb
stableMarssquareUranus6.2° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Mona’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 12°06′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 15°56′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 4°01′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 25°00′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 3°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 1.1°
- Eros square Mars 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.1°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.6°
Mona’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Mona’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Jupiter, Uranus, MarsAn 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.
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.1°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.3°
- Venus quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 1.9°
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on May 9
- Shaboozey1995
- Willyrex1993
- Dana Perino1972
- Albert Finney1936
- John Corbett1961
- Noah Centineo1996
Fellow Yang Water day masters
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- Siddhartha MukherjeeIndian-American physician and writer (born 1970)
- Arnaldo CortesiAmerican journalist and foreign correspondent
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Other Tidal Lightkeepers
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- Kathryn Stripling ByerAmerican poet
- Roy Lee Harmonpoet, politician, founder of West Virginia's Poetry Society
- Edward G. HillAmerican lawyer and poet from Mississippi
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Michael AbelsAmerican composer
- Harvey Williams CushingAmerican neurosurgeon
- Leon KirchnerAmerican composer
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Mona’s cards
Computed from May 9, 1921. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Mona’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6897736 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Mona Van Duyn.
Quick answers about Mona Van Duyn’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Mona Van Duyn?
- Mona Van Duyn was a Taurus: born May 9, 1921, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Mona Van Duyn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 9, 1921 birth.
- What was Mona Van Duyn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Mona Van Duyn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Mona Van Duyn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Mona Van Duyn's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: disposes Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
