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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Mona’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Mona sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
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
No documented birth time exists for Mona Van Duyn, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Gemini 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.
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
Mona’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.7° orb
Mona’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableUranustrinePluto1.9° orb
Mona’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareJupiter6.1° to 6.7° orb
Mona’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareUranus6.2° to 6.9° orb
Mona’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 12°06′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Mona may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCancer 15°56′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Mona is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosPisces 4°01′ (moves 0.46° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Mona is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaLeo 25°00′ (moves 0.15° 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 Mona at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 3°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Mona at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Mona’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Mona 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 Mona’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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Mona Van Duyn, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Mona’s cards
Every card is computed from May 9, 1921, 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
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
No birth time is on public record for Mona Van Duyn, 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
Mona’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6897736, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Mona Van Duyn at Wikipedia 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rooster.
- 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 time was Mona Van Duyn 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 was Mona Van Duyn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 9, 1921 birth date.
- What was Mona Van Duyn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 9, 1921 birth date.
- 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.
