Naomi Kritzer
Naomi Kritzer (born April 23, 1973, North Carolina, United States), aged 53, is an American speculative fiction writer. Kritzer's honours include Nebula Award for Best Novelette, Hugo Award for Best Short Story and Locus Award for Best Short Story.
Naomi Kritzer’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Naomi
Naomi Kritzer’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Naomi in the U.S.?
#47
US rank in 2025
~191,837
Americans share it since 1880
2025
its peak year
Naomi ranked 308th among girls and 4,901st among boys in 1973, the year of this birth, with 757 American girls and 6 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Naomi’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on N (5) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Naomi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
White · Blush · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Naomi apart
Max Planck (1858) and Halldór Laxness (1902) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Naomi, according to the stars
Core essence
Naomi 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 Naomi 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, Naomi is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Naomi needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Naomi wants to be loved
Naomi wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Naomi is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Naomi creates
How Naomi 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. Naomi 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: Naomi is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Naomi is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Naomi goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Naomi's birth date. Working below.
Where Naomi sits
Six lines
Naomi’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 Naomi Kritzer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above North Carolina 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 North Carolina that night
Computed for 35.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over North Carolina at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.9° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
From 35.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from North Carolina at all: they sit past the −54.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 66% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 22° down.
How unusual Naomi's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Water planets
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Naomi Kritzer's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 23, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Naomi Kritzer was born on April 23, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Naomi Kritzer's birth date, April 23, 1973, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Naomi’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Naomi Kritzer's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs, and none in Water.
- Naomi Kritzer combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Naomi’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 16° Capricorn 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
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 1.4° orb
Naomi’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.8° orb
Naomi’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableMarstrineUranus0.4° to 1.1° orb
Naomi’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.7° to 3.2° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn1.8° to 2.4° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 3.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto6.3° to 7.8° orb
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Naomi’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 17°48′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 17°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 22°25′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 17°16′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 17°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.4°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.9°
- Chiron sextile Mars 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.7°
- Eros trine Mars 2.7°
Naomi’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Naomi’s chart
Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.7°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.8°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 1.3°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.4°
More people like Naomi
Other writers
- Daniel Kraus1975
- Vikas Khanna1971
- Shaun Tan1974
- N. K. Jemisin1972
- Ada Limón1976
- Elizabeth Bear1971
Born in United States
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- T. R. KnightAmerican actor
- Molly SimsAmerican actress
- Pharrell WilliamsAmerican record producer and songwriter
- Stephanie WelshAmerican photographer and midwife
- Jim ParsonsAmerican actor
More charts like Naomi’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Xochitl GomezAmerican actress
- Sam HeughanScottish actor
- Susie WilesChief of Staff to President of the United States
Born in Ox years
- Kevin McKiddScottish actor
- Tom BerengerAmerican actor (born 1949)
- Donald O'ConnorAmerican dancer, singer, and actor
Also born on April 23
- Max Planck1858
- Halldór Laxness1902
- John Cena1977
- Gigi Hadid1995
- Chloe Kim2000
- Valerie Bertinelli1960
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Maggie QAmerican actress
- Billy PorterAmerican singer and actor
- Carly PearceAmerican country music singer-songwriter
Other Taurus Ox charts
- Jemima KirkeBritish-American artist and actress
- George LopezAmerican comedian and actor
- Rachel LindsayAmerican television personality
- Audrina PatridgeAmerican reality television star
Other Steadfast Lightkeepers
- Katalin KarikóHungarian biochemist
- Javier ZanettiArgentine association football player
- Billie Joe ArmstrongAmerican rock musician
- Kerry WashingtonAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Jack WhiteAmerican musician
- Ben ShapiroAmerican conservative political commentator
- Golshifteh FarahaniIranian actress and musician
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Naomi’s cards
Computed from April 23, 1973. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The High PriestessAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Naomi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q24852543 (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.
The same Naomi Kritzer at Wikipedia, naomikritzer.com and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Naomi Kritzer.
Quick answers about Naomi Kritzer’s chart
- How old is Naomi Kritzer?
- Naomi Kritzer is 53 years old, born April 23, 1973 in North Carolina, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Naomi Kritzer?
- Naomi Kritzer is a Taurus: born April 23, 1973, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Naomi Kritzer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 23, 1973 birth.
- What is Naomi Kritzer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Naomi Kritzer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Naomi Kritzer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Naomi Kritzer's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
