Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (born January 31, 1923, Long Branch, United States; died 2007), was an American writer. Mailer's honours include Legion of Honour, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Norman Mailer’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Norman
Norman Mailer’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Norman in the U.S.?
#1200
US rank in 2025
~254,762
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
Norman ranked 44th among boys and 1,579th among girls in 1923, the year of this birth, with 4,706 American boys and 28 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Norman’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on N (5) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Norman’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
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 1922, 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 Norman apart
Norman Mailer took the George Polk Award in 1968, at 45.
Boys High School and Boys and Girls High School shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as kidney failure; the grave is at Provincetown Cemetery.
Norman Mailer was born to Fanny Schneider and Isaac Barnett Mailer, married Norris Church Mailer and Adele Morales and raised 5 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Norman Mailer under American tax resisters, Boxing writers and Clan Campbell.
Justin Timberlake (1981) and Kerry Washington (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Boys High School, Boys and Girls High School and University of Paris
- Awards
- National Book Award (1969), Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1969) and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director (1988)
- Nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Neustadt International Prize for Literature
- Cause of death
- kidney failure
- Buried at
- Provincetown Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 87
What the chart says
Norman, according to the stars
Core essence
Norman is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Norman is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Norman wants to be loved
Norman wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Norman and watch them fall for you again.
How Norman creates
How Norman makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Norman builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Norman 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Norman 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 to wait. Mars in Aries means Norman gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Norman's birth date. Working below.
Where Norman sits
Six lines
Norman’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 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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Norman Mailer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Long Branch 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 Long Branch that night
Computed for 40.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Long Branch at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.1° above the horizon in Auriga.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.3°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 Long Branch at all: they sit past the −49.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Long Branch, United States
- Lived in
- Long Branch · Brooklyn
Wikidata records Long Branch and Brooklyn as Norman Mailer's home, Long Branch among them.
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2007.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Norman Mailer: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Norman's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · No Earth 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.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunIdeas first, people second.
Norman Mailer's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 31, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Norman Mailer was born on January 31, 1923, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Intuition before evidence.
Norman Mailer's birth date, January 31, 1923, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Norman’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Norman Mailer's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Norman Mailer combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Norman’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Cancer or Leo 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
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.2° to 0.4° orb
Norman’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileMars1.4° to 3.3° orb
Norman’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquarePluto1.7° to 2.4° orb
Norman’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrinePluto2.2° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.1° orb
stableSunsextileMars3.2° to 3.5° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.6° to 6.8° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableSunoppositionNeptune5.6° to 6.7° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter6.0° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Norman’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 13°36′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 12°23′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 1°53′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 2°55′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 13°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 2.2°
- Chiron sextile Sun 2.8°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.8°
Norman’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Norman’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Neptune, JupiterAn 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 Uranus 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Norman’s cards
Computed from January 31, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Norman’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q180962 (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 Unknown, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Norman Mailer at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Norman Mailer.
Quick answers about Norman Mailer’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Norman Mailer?
- Norman Mailer was an Aquarius: born January 31, 1923, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Norman Mailer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 31, 1923 birth.
- What was Norman Mailer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Norman Mailer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Norman Mailer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Norman Mailer's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
