Joan Plowright
Joan Plowright (born October 28, 1929, Brigg, United Kingdom; died 2025), was a British actress. Plowright's honours include Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Joan Plowright’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Joan
Joan Plowright’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Architect
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
In 1929, 11,666 American girls and 55 boys were registered Joan — 13th among girls and 909th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joan’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
11
Personality · perceptive
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
5 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Crimson · Gold
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 1929, 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
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play came in 1961, when Joan Plowright was 32.
Study took Joan Plowright to St Lawrence Academy and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Joan Plowright was 19 when the work began in 1948.
Joan Plowright lies at Westminster Abbey.
The family line: born to Daisy Margaret Burton and William Ernest Plowright, married Laurence Olivier and Roger Gage and raised 3 children.
On Wikipedia the categories read Spouses of life peers, Blind actors and People from Brigg.
Bill Gates (1955) and Julia Roberts (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- St Lawrence Academy and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture (1993), Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (1961) and Crystal Award (1994)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 1948
- Buried at
- Westminster Abbey
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 49
What the chart says
Joan, according to the stars
Core essence
Joan does not do surface. The core of Joan is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Joan is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Joan is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Joan needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Joan wants to be loved
Joan 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. Joan gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Joan creates
How Joan makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Joan creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Joan is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Joan is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Joan runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Joan Plowright
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brigg 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 Brigg that night
Computed for 53.55°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brigg at 9 p.m. that evening: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 7.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.
Brigg sits at 53.6°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −36.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Brigg on any night.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon down and 14% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Brigg, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Northwood, London Borough of Hillingdon in 2025.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joan Plowright: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Joan's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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 →Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Joan Plowright's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 28, 1929, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
Joan Plowright was born on October 28, 1929, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Joan Plowright's birth date, October 28, 1929, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Joan’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joan Plowright's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Joan Plowright combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Architect.
Joan’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° 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
stableMoonsquareJupiter0.1° to 7.0° orb
Joan’s feelings grind against their growth.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.9° to 1.9° orb
Joan’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.1° to 2.5° orb
Joan’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionUranus1.2° to 2.5° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto1.6° to 3.0° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter4.6° to 5.9° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune6.4° to 6.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus7.0° to 7.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 6.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 4.5° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Joan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 12°22′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 18°33′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 29°14′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 4°34′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 17°51′ (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 square Mercury 0.5°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.8°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.7°
Joan’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 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 quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.4°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.5°
Joan’s family here
One relative of Joan Plowright also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on October 28
- Bill Gates1955
- Julia Roberts1967
- Joaquin Phoenix1974
- Garrincha1933
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- Caitlyn Jenner1949
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Thomas KeneallyAustralian novelist
- John MilnorAmerican mathematician
- Wendelin WernerMathematician and Fields Medallist
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- Andre Jackson Jr.American basketball player (born 2001)
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Other Radiant Architects
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Famous people with Life Path 5
- Omar M. YaghiAmerican chemist of Arabic descent (born 1965)
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- Fred RamsdellAmerican immunologist
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Joan’s cards
Computed from October 28, 1929. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230035 (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 Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joan Plowright 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 Joan Plowright.
Quick answers about Joan Plowright’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joan Plowright?
- Joan Plowright was a Scorpio: born October 28, 1929, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Joan Plowright's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 28, 1929 birth.
- What was Joan Plowright's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joan Plowright's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joan Plowright's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joan Plowright's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
