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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Ox, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~191,837
Americans share it since 1880
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Naomi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
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
No documented birth time exists for Naomi Kritzer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 16° Capricorn 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.
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
Naomi’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.8° to 2.4° orb
Naomi’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenussquareJupiter2.5° to 3.6° orb
Naomi’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSaturntrineUranus2.7° to 2.9° orb
Naomi’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.0° to 3.2° orb
Naomi’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 3.7° orb
Naomi’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
Naomi’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto6.3° to 7.8° orb
Naomi’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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 17°48′ (moves 0.06° 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: Naomi may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 17°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Naomi is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosGemini 22°25′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Naomi is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 17°16′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Naomi is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 17°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Naomi leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Naomi’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Naomi is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Naomi’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.
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 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 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Naomi Kritzer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Naomi’s cards
Every card is computed from April 23, 1973, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Naomi Kritzer, 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
Naomi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q24852543, 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.
The same Naomi Kritzer at Wikipedia, naomikritzer.com and X.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox.
- 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 time was Naomi Kritzer 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 is Naomi Kritzer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the April 23, 1973 birth date.
- What is Naomi Kritzer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 23, 1973 birth date.
- 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.
