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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Monkey, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Joan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Joan D. Hedrick, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° Leo or Virgo 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.
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
Joan’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquarePluto4.2° to 5.2° orb
Joan’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.4° to 5.1° orb
Joan’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
Joan’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.3° to 5.4° orb
Joan’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareJupiter6.0° to 6.9° orb
Joan’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercurysquarePluto6.1° to 6.7° orb
Joan’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 9°24′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Joan turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresCancer 12°13′ (moves 0.36° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Joan is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosPisces 12°13′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Joan is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 4°26′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Joan carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°12′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Joan exacting with themselves first.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Joan’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Joan 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 Joan’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joan D. Hedrick, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like Joan
Other historians
- Jack N. Rakove1947
- Rhys Isaac1937
- Greg Grandin1962
- David M. Kennedy1941
- Kai Bird1951
- Daniel Walker Howe1937
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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
Every card is computed from May 1, 1944, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for Joan D. Hedrick, 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
Joan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q56043433, 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 Joan D. Hedrick at Wikipedia.
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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Monkey.
- 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 time was Joan D. Hedrick 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 Joan D. Hedrick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the May 1, 1944 birth date.
- What is Joan D. Hedrick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 1, 1944 birth date.
- 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.
