Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom (born January 18, 1982, Grass Valley, United States, 07:51), aged 44, is an American musician (b. 1982).
Joanna Newsom’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rooster, with 
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Joanna Newsom’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Joanna in the U.S.?
#306
US rank in 2025
~112,067
Americans share it since 1880
1984
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Joanna’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Joanna apart
Kevin Costner (1955) and Paul Keating (1944) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Joanna, according to the stars
Core essence
Joanna is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Joanna is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Joanna feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Joanna needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Joanna wants to be loved
Joanna wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Joanna be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Joanna creates
How Joanna makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Joanna creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Joanna is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Joanna is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Joanna fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Joanna'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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Joanna Newsom's Sun was in Capricorn at the documented birth time. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Joanna Newsom was born on January 18, 1982, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Joanna Newsom's birth date, January 18, 1982, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Joanna’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Joanna Newsom's timed chart: Moon in the 10th house, Mercury in the 1st house, Venus in the 1st house and Jupiter in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Joanna Newsom's timed chart is Moon square Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Joanna Newsom combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Joanna’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 0.2° orb
Joanna’s feelings grind against their mind.
VenussextileUranusseparating · 0.8° orb
Joanna’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.1° orb
Joanna’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 1.3° orb
Joanna’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MercurytrineMarsseparating · 3.3° orb
Joanna’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SaturnsextileNeptuneseparating · 3.7° orb
Joanna’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 4.5° orb
Joanna’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SaturnconjunctionPlutoapplying · 4.8° orb
Joanna’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 5.3° orb
Joanna’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
VenussquareJupiterseparating · 5.6° orb
Joanna’s affections grind against their growth.
VenussquarePlutoapplying · 5.8° orb
Joanna’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunsquareSaturnseparating · 6.1° orb
Joanna’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Joanna’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 17°56′ · House 4
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Joanna building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresScorpio 14°57′ · House 10
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Joanna is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosTaurus 21°44′ · House 4
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Joanna wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 2°23′ · House 7
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Joanna at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 12°54′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Joanna leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.6°
- Chiron square Mercury 1.1°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Moon 1.4°
- Ceres conjunction Moon 1.6°
- Ceres square Mercury 1.8°
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°).
Joanna’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♄ Saturn9.5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus9 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; angular in the first house; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Joanna is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Joanna’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
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.
- Sun quintile Moon 0.3°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 1.3°
Joanna’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquarius | Uranus in Sagittarius, house 11 | Mercury, Venus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 11 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Libra, house 9 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 1 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Scorpio, house 10 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Capricorn, house 12 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 1 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 1 | Mars, Saturn, Pluto | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 9 | Moon, Jupiter | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 10 | Uranus, Neptune | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Libra, house 9 | Sun | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Joanna’s cards
Every card is computed from January 18, 1982, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Joanna’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233061, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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.
Portrait by aphrodite-in-nyc from new york city, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joanna Newsom at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Joanna Newsom’s chart
- How old is Joanna Newsom?
- Joanna Newsom is 44 years old, born January 18, 1982 in Grass Valley, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joanna Newsom?
- Joanna Newsom is a Capricorn: born January 18, 1982, which puts the Sun in Capricorn at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rooster.
- What is Joanna Newsom's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 18, 1982 birth.
- What time was Joanna Newsom born?
- 07:51 local time in Grass Valley, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Joanna Newsom's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 07:51 birth time in Grass Valley, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Joanna Newsom's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 18, 1982 birth date.
- What is Joanna Newsom's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 17°, in the fourth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 18, 1982 birth time.
- Where is Joanna Newsom's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 12°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joanna Newsom's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9.5 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
