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Moss Hart

Moss Hart (born October 24, 1904, New York City, United States; died 1961), was an American playwright, librettist, and theatre director. Hart's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Director and Donaldson Awards.

Moss Hart’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Moss Hart’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Guardian

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Moss in the U.S.?

#5334

US rank in 2025

~519

Americans share it since 1891

2023

its peak year

Moss is in US records from 1891, but 1904 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2023.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Moss’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on M (4) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Moss’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern

Amber · Crimson · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1904, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Moss apart

Moss Hart took the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1937, at 33.

Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction; the grave is at Ferncliff Cemetery.

The family line: married Kitty Carlisle.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Moss Hart: Writers from Palm Springs, California, Jewish theatre directors and People from Sea Gate, Brooklyn.

PewDiePie (1989) and Malcolm Turnbull (1954) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1937) and Tony Award for Best Director (1957)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Story and Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Cause of death
myocardial infarction
Buried at
Ferncliff Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
16

What the chart says

Moss, according to the stars

Core essence

Moss does not do surface. The core of Moss is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Moss is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Moss wants to be loved

Moss wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Moss even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Moss creates

How Moss makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Moss creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Moss is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Moss is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Moss channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Moss's birth date. Working below.

Where Moss sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Moss

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Moss

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Moss

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Moss

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Moss

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Moss

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

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Moss’s birth-night reference starScheatdeep red · PegasusScheat, in Pegasus. A deep red star, 76.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Scheat →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 New York City that night

Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 13.6° of the exact zenith.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 92 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at full moon, 100% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.

The name and the places

Born in
New York City, United States

The death is recorded at Palm Springs, Riverside County in 1961.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Moss Hart: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Moss's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

3 unaspected planets · 2 planets at a critical degree

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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Moss Hart in 15 seconds

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Moss Hart's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 24, 1904, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Wood Dragon

Big energy, bigger plans.

Moss Hart was born on October 24, 1904, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Moss Hart's birth date, October 24, 1904, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Moss’s chart

Moss’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.6° orbMercury faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.6° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 2.8° orbJupiter opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.9° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.9° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.4° orbMoon opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 4.4° orbSun in Scorpio · 0°52′☉0°Moon in Taurus · 3°42′☽3°Mercury in Libra · 26°25′☿26°Venus in Scorpio · 29°21′♀29°Mars in Virgo · 14°10′♂14°Jupiter in Aries · 24°23′ · retrograde♃℞24°Saturn in Aquarius · 14°22′♄14°Uranus in Sagittarius · 26°59′♅26°Neptune in Cancer · 8°08′ · retrograde♆℞8°Pluto in Gemini · 21°32′ · retrograde♇℞21°

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

  • stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.4° orb

    Moss’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercuryoppositionJupiter1.1° to 2.9° orb

    Moss’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus2.5° to 2.7° orb

    Moss’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableJupitersextilePluto2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.4° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrinePluto4.0° to 5.7° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.1° to 4.8° orb

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter5.9° to 7.0° orb

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.6° to 12.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Moss’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 24°55′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 26°23′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 12°57′ (moves 0.85° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 2°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 20°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Mercury 0.0°
  • Chiron square Jupiter 0.5°
  • Ceres conjunction Uranus 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.3°
  • Eros trine Saturn 1.4°
  • Chiron square Mercury 1.5°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 2.0°

Moss’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Moss’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars quincunx Saturn 0.2°
  • Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.2°
  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
  • Sun semi-square Mars 1.7°

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Moss’s cards

Computed from October 24, 1904. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Guardian

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Moss’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q728876 (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 Photographer-Vandamm, New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Moss Hart at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Moss Hart.

Quick answers about Moss Hart’s chart

What zodiac sign was Moss Hart?
Moss Hart was a Scorpio: born October 24, 1904, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Moss Hart's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 24, 1904 birth.
What was Moss Hart's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Moss Hart's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Moss Hart's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Moss Hart's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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