N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934, Lawton, United States; died 2024), was a Kiowa author and academic. Momaday is best remembered for House Made of Dawn. Momaday's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Robert Frost Medal and Guggenheim Fellowship.
N. Scott Momaday’s zodiac sign was Pisces, Chinese zodiac was Wood Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Dog, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
What N. Scott Momaday’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on N (5) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
N. Scott Momaday’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Rose-gold · 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 1934, 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 N. Scott Momaday apart
The record N. Scott Momaday is measured by: House Made of Dawn.
The schooling ran through Augusta Military Academy and University of New Mexico.
N. Scott Momaday was 33 when the work began in 1967.
The family line: born to Mayme Natachee Scott Momaday and Al Momaday.
Wikipedia files N. Scott Momaday under Native American essayists, People from Lawton, Oklahoma and Kiowa people.
Roland Flint shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- House Made of Dawn
- Educated at
- Augusta Military Academy, University of New Mexico and University of Virginia
- Awards
- Robert Frost Medal (2021), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1969) and Ken Burns American Heritage Prize (2019)
- Nominated for
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature
- Working from
- 1967
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 28
What the chart says
N. Scott Momaday, according to the stars
Core essence
N. Scott Momaday feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of N. Scott Momaday is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, N. Scott Momaday needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What N. Scott Momaday needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How N. Scott Momaday wants to be loved
N. Scott Momaday wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let N. Scott Momaday be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How N. Scott Momaday creates
How N. Scott Momaday makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. N. Scott Momaday creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: N. Scott Momaday is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. N. Scott Momaday is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of N. Scott Momaday leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; N. Scott Momaday slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from N. Scott Momaday's birth date. Working below.
Where N. Scott Momaday sits
Six lines
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Lawton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Lawton that night
Computed for 34.61°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Lawton was Castor, in Gemini, 82.3° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 99 catalog stars above the horizon.
Lawton sits at 34.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Lawton at all: they sit past the −55.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Lawton, United States
- Lived in
- Lawton · Tucson
Wikidata records Lawton and Tucson as N. Scott Momaday's home, Lawton among them.
The death is recorded at Santa Fe, Santa Fe County in 2024.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for N. Scott Momaday: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual N.'s chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Pisces · T-square onto Pluto · 1 unaspected planet
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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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunKind, porous, easily flooded.
N. Scott Momaday's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 27, 1934, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Wood Dog
Wood DogWorries so you don't have to.
N. Scott Momaday was born on February 27, 1934, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
N. Scott Momaday's birth date, February 27, 1934, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in N. Scott Momaday’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in N. Scott Momaday's date-only chart is Jupiter square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Pisces, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto.
- N. Scott Momaday combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
N. Scott Momaday’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.0° to 7.7° orb
N. Scott Momaday’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersquarePluto0.2° to 0.3° orb
N. Scott Momaday’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.6° to 1.8° orb
N. Scott Momaday’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.3° to 1.5° orb
stableUranussquarePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune2.1° to 3.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto2.8° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus3.6° to 3.7° orb
stableMarstrinePluto3.8° to 4.6° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune7.1° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
N. Scott Momaday’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 29°08′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 27°50′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 29°16′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 5°31′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.5°
N. Scott Momaday’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 3 major aspects
Configurations in N. Scott Momaday’s chart
Stellium in Pisces · 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.
T-square onto Pluto · Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoAn 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.7°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.3°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.4°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.7°
Born the same day as N. Scott Momaday
Roland Flint was born on February 27, 1934 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Lawton, at 34.6°N, nothing below −55.4° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
N. Scott Momaday’s cards
Computed from February 27, 1934. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
N. Scott Momaday’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q736570 (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 ISU Library. SCUA. AV Collection., CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same N. Scott Momaday at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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Quick answers about N. Scott Momaday’s chart
- What zodiac sign was N. Scott Momaday?
- N. Scott Momaday was a Pisces: born February 27, 1934, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What was N. Scott Momaday's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 27, 1934 birth.
- What was N. Scott Momaday's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was N. Scott Momaday's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was N. Scott Momaday's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was N. Scott Momaday's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
