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Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward (born February 27, 1930, Thomasville, United States), aged 96, is an American actress (born 1930). Woodward's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.

Joanne Woodward’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Metal Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Joanne Woodward’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Healer

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Joanne in the U.S.?

#2630

US rank in 2025

~212,474

Americans share it since 1888

1947

its peak year

The SSA recorded 3,154 American girls and 10 boys named Joanne in 1930: 81st among girls and 2,696th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Joanne’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

7

Soul Urge · understanding

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Joanne’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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 Joanne apart

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama came in 1957, when Joanne Woodward was 27.

Joanne Woodward was taught at Marietta High School and Greenville High School.

Joanne Woodward was 22 when the work began in 1952.

The family line: born to Elinor Trimmier and Wade Woodward Jr., married Paul Newman and raised 2 children.

Wikipedia files Joanne Woodward under Newman-Woodward family, Greenville Senior High School (Greenville, South Carolina) alumni and Actresses from Westport, Connecticut.

John Steinbeck (1902) and Elizabeth Taylor (1932) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Marietta High School, Greenville High School and Louisiana State University
Awards
Academy Award for Best Actress (1958), Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama (1957) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Miniseries or Television Film (1995)
Nominated for
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress and Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
Working from
1952
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
70

What the chart says

Joanne, according to the stars

Core essence

Joanne feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Joanne is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

How Joanne wants to be loved

Joanne wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Joanne, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Joanne creates

How Joanne makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Joanne creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: Joanne is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Joanne 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Joanne goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Joanne's birth date. Working below.

Where Joanne sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Joanne

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Joanne

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Joanne

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Joanne

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Joanne

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Joanne

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Joanne Woodward

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

Computed for 30.84°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Mebsuta stood nearest the zenith over Thomasville at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.7° above the horizon in Gemini.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.

Thomasville sits at 30.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Thomasville at all: they sit past the −59.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Thomasville, United States
Lives in
Thomasville · Marietta

Wikidata records Thomasville and Marietta as Joanne Woodward's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joanne Woodward: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Joanne's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Jupiter

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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Joanne Woodward in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Kind, porous, easily flooded.

Joanne Woodward's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 27, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Metal Horse

Bright, restless, warm.

Joanne Woodward was born on February 27, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 6

Home is the project.

Joanne Woodward's birth date, February 27, 1930, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Joanne’s chart

Joanne’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.2° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.8° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.3° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.5° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.9° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.2° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.8° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.2° orbSun in Pisces · 8°23′☉8°Moon in Aquarius · 28°53′☽28°Mercury in Aquarius · 14°45′☿14°Venus in Pisces · 13°30′♀13°Mars in Aquarius · 16°17′♂16°Jupiter in Gemini · 7°35′♃7°Saturn in Capricorn · 9°41′♄9°Uranus in Aries · 9°31′♅9°Neptune in Virgo · 2°03′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Cancer · 17°39′ · retrograde♇℞17°

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

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus0.2° orb

    Joanne’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter0.3° to 1.3° orb

    Joanne’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn0.8° to 1.8° orb

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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.2° to 1.8° orb

  • stableJupitersextileUranus1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn3.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto3.5° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.2° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter5.3° to 6.5° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune5.5° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune5.8° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 10°23′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 9°06′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 14°16′ (moves 0.58° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 20°01′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 1°28′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Uranus 0.4°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 0.5°
  • Chiron trine Saturn 0.7°
  • Ceres square Sun 0.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.5°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 2.0°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 2.0°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 2.4°

Joanne’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    in its own sign, Capricorn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Joanne’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Jupiter · Sun, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.6°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 1.4°
  • Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.1°

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Joanne’s cards

Computed from February 27, 1930. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Joanne’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1111542 (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 MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Joanne Woodward 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 Joanne Woodward.

Quick answers about Joanne Woodward’s chart

How old is Joanne Woodward?
Joanne Woodward is 96 years old, born February 27, 1930 in Thomasville, United States.
What zodiac sign is Joanne Woodward?
Joanne Woodward is a Pisces: born February 27, 1930, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Joanne Woodward's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 27, 1930 birth.
What is Joanne Woodward's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Joanne Woodward's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Joanne Woodward's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Joanne Woodward's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Venus; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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