Natalie Diaz
Natalie Diaz (born September 4, 1978, Needles, United States), aged 48, is a Mojave poet, writer and basketball player. Diaz has played for Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball. Diaz's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and American Book Awards.
Natalie Diaz’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Natalie
Natalie Diaz’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Healer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Natalie in the U.S.?
#89
US rank in 2025
~379,831
Americans share it since 1880
2006
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1978, Natalie came 66th among girls and 2,254th among boys, carried by 4,165 American girls and 21 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Natalie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on N (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Natalie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1978, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Natalie apart
Natalie Diaz took the American Book Awards in 2013, at 35.
Training came by way of Old Dominion University.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Natalie Diaz: Native American people from California, People from Needles, California and Language activists.
The same date carries Wes Bentley. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Old Dominion University
- Awards
- American Book Awards (2013) and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2021)
- Sport
- basketball
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and Mojave
- Wikipedia editions
- 11
What the chart says
Natalie, according to the stars
Core essence
Natalie notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Natalie is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Natalie wants to be loved
Natalie wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Natalie gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Natalie creates
How Natalie 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. Natalie 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: Natalie is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Natalie is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Natalie fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Natalie's birth date. Working below.
Where Natalie sits
Six lines
Natalie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Natalie Diaz
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Needles 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 Needles that night
Computed for 34.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Needles at 9 p.m. that evening: Sulafat of Lyra, within 4.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −55.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 6% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 23° down.
How unusual Natalie's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all · 1 planet 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Natalie Diaz's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 4, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Natalie Diaz was born on September 4, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
Natalie Diaz's birth date, September 4, 1978, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Natalie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Natalie Diaz's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Natalie Diaz combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Healer.
Natalie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 12° Virgo or Libra 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
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
Natalie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsextileUranus0.8° to 1.8° orb
Natalie’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.7° to 2.5° orb
Natalie’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunsquareNeptune3.2° to 4.2° orb
stableMercurysextileMars3.7° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune4.1° to 4.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.4° to 5.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn6.5° to 7.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars7.7° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 2.8° to 15.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Natalie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 9°33′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 10°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 6°22′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 23°08′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 25°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.7°
- Eros conjunction Saturn 1.4°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.1°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.3°
Natalie’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Natalie’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 semi-square Saturn 0.0°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.9°
Born the same day as Natalie
Wes Bentley was born on September 4, 1978 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Needles sits at 34.8°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Virgo suns
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Born in Horse years
- Malachi CorleyAmerican football player
- Jahmyr GibbsAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Max MeltonAmerican football cornerback
Also born on September 4
- Beyoncé1981
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- Tayshia Adams1990
- Hank Baskett1982
- Whitney Cummings1982
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Jeremy Allen WhiteAmerican actor
- Candace OwensAmerican political commentator
- Teyana TaylorAmerican singer-songwriter and actress
Other Virgo Horse charts
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- EinárSwedish rapper
- Lil TeccaAmerican rapper and singer-songwriter
- Gabriel LaBelleCanadian actor
Other Steadfast Healers
- Howard LutnickAmerican billionaire businessman
- Fish LeongMalaysian singer
- Brian CheskyAmerican businessman & Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb
- Disguised ToastCanadian Twitch streamer
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Júlio CésarBrazilian footballer
- Fernando Henrique CardosoPresident of Brazil from 1995 to 2003
- Hayden PanettiereAmerican actress and singer
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Natalie’s cards
Computed from September 4, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Natalie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16974419 (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 Jamestroud, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Natalie Diaz at Wikipedia and nataliegermainediaz.com.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Natalie Diaz.
Quick answers about Natalie Diaz’s chart
- How old is Natalie Diaz?
- Natalie Diaz is 48 years old, born September 4, 1978 in Needles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Natalie Diaz?
- Natalie Diaz is a Virgo: born September 4, 1978, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Natalie Diaz's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 4, 1978 birth.
- What is Natalie Diaz's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Natalie Diaz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Natalie Diaz's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Natalie Diaz's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
