Joan D. Hedrick
Joan D. Hedrick (born May 1, 1944, Baltimore, United States), aged 82, is an American historian. Hedrick's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Joan D. Hedrick’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Joan
Joan D. Hedrick’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Joan in the U.S.?
#987
US rank in 2025
~488,939
Americans share it since 1880
1932
its peak year
Joan ranked 22nd among girls and 872nd among boys in 1944, the year of this birth, with 11,920 American girls and 53 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Joan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1944, 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 Joan apart
Joan D. Hedrick took the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1995, at 51.
The classrooms behind this chart: Vassar College and Brown University.
Wikipedia's editors put Joan D. Hedrick under Trinity College (Connecticut) faculty, Vassar College alumni and Wesleyan University faculty.
Charli D'Amelio (2004) and Jamie Dornan (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Vassar College and Brown University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1995)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Joan, according to the stars
Core essence
Joan 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 Joan 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 Joan wants to be loved
Joan wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Joan creates
How Joan makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Joan creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Joan is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Joan is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Joan does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Joan's birth date. Working below.
Where Joan sits
Six lines
Joan’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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 Joan D. Hedrick
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Baltimore 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 Baltimore that night
Computed for 39.29°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Baltimore was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 86.4° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.3°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 Baltimore at all: they sit past the −50.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 67% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 11° down.
How unusual Joan's chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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 SunBuilt for the long haul.
Joan D. Hedrick's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 1, 1944, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Joan D. Hedrick was born on May 1, 1944, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Joan D. Hedrick's birth date, May 1, 1944, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Joan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joan D. Hedrick's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joan D. Hedrick combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
Joan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 5.8° orb
Joan’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussextilePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb
Joan’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 2.5° orb
Joan’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.5° to 2.6° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.4° to 5.1° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° to 5.4° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter6.0° to 6.9° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto6.1° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 3.1° to 14.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Joan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 9°24′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 12°13′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 12°13′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 4°26′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Mercury 0.6°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.9°
- Ceres sextile Sun 1.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.1°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.7°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.0°
- Chiron square Uranus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 2.9°
Joan’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Joan’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-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.7°
More people like Joan
Other historians
- Jack N. Rakove1947
- Rhys Isaac1937
- Greg Grandin1962
- David M. Kennedy1941
- Kai Bird1951
- Daniel Walker Howe1937
Born in United States
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- Thomas MarkleAmerican lighting director and father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
- Henry ThreadgillAmerican jazz musician (born 1944)
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Joan’s cards
Computed from May 1, 1944. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q56043433 (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 Joan D. Hedrick at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joan D. Hedrick.
Quick answers about Joan D. Hedrick’s chart
- How old is Joan D. Hedrick?
- Joan D. Hedrick is 82 years old, born May 1, 1944 in Baltimore, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joan D. Hedrick?
- Joan D. Hedrick is a Taurus: born May 1, 1944, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Joan D. Hedrick's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 1, 1944 birth.
- What is Joan D. Hedrick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joan D. Hedrick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Joan D. Hedrick's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joan D. Hedrick's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
