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Tad Mosel

Tad Mosel (born May 1, 1922, Steubenville, United States; died 2008), was an American playwright. Mosel's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Tad Mosel’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Tad Mosel’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 Tad in the U.S.?

#7619

US rank in 2025

~6,929

Americans share it since 1912

1966

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1922, Tad came 3,220th, carried by 9 American boys.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Tad’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

3

Soul Urge · being heard

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on T (2) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Tad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

11 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Blush · Soft pink

The record

What sets Tad apart

Charli D'Amelio (2004) and Jamie Dornan (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Tad, according to the stars

Core essence

Tad 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 Tad 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.

How Tad wants to be loved

Tad wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Tad like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Tad creates

How Tad 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. Tad 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: Tad 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. Tad 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Tad has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Tad's birth date. Working below.

Where Tad sits

Six lines

Tad’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Tad

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Tad

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Tad

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Tad

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Tad

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Tad

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Steubenville 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 Steubenville that night

Computed for 40.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Steubenville at 9 p.m. that evening, 88.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.4°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 Steubenville at all: they sit past the −49.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon up and 24% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Tad's chart is

Chart pattern score

62 / 100 · Unusual

Yod onto Jupiter · Yod onto Uranus · 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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Tad Mosel's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 1, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Tad Mosel was born on May 1, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 11

Intuition before evidence.

Tad Mosel's birth date, May 1, 1922, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Tad’s chart

Tad’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.1° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.2° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.4° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.6° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.7° orbMoon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.4° orbSun in Taurus · 10°29′☉10°Moon in Cancer · 3°48′☽3°Mercury in Taurus · 18°34′☿18°Venus in Gemini · 0°45′♀0°Mars in Sagittarius · 25°01′♂25°Jupiter in Libra · 10°48′ · retrograde♃℞10°Saturn in Libra · 1°42′ · retrograde♄℞1°Uranus in Pisces · 12°41′♅12°Neptune in Leo · 13°11′♆13°Pluto in Cancer · 8°15′♇8°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableVenustrineSaturn0.3° to 1.6° orb

    Tad’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunsextileUranus1.7° to 2.7° orb

    Tad’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsextilePluto1.8° to 2.7° orb

    Tad’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune2.2° to 3.2° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune2.3° to 2.4° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune4.3° to 6.4° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto6.5° to 6.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn6.6° to 6.8° orb

  • possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Tad’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 14°60′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 0°53′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCancer 11°22′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 13°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 12°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.3°
  • Hygiea trine Neptune 0.4°
  • Eros square Jupiter 0.6°
  • Eros sextile Sun 0.9°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 0.9°
  • Eros trine Uranus 1.3°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.8°

Tad’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Tad’s chart

  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Jupiter · Sun, Uranus, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Uranus · Jupiter, Neptune, UranusTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.3°
  • Mercury biquintile Mars 0.4°
  • Venus quintile Neptune 0.4°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 0.5°
  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.5°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.9°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.9°

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Tad’s cards

Computed from May 1, 1922. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Tad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1529199 (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 Tad Mosel at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Tad Mosel.

Quick answers about Tad Mosel’s chart

What zodiac sign was Tad Mosel?
Tad Mosel was a Taurus: born May 1, 1922, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Tad Mosel's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 1, 1922 birth.
What was Tad Mosel's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Tad Mosel's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Tad Mosel's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Tad Mosel's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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