Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix (born Joaquin Rafael Bottom; October 28, 1974, San Juan, United States), aged 52, is an American actor. Phoenix is best known for Joker, The Sisters Brothers and Her. Phoenix's honours include Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Joaquin Phoenix’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Joaquin
Joaquin Phoenix’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Joaquin in the U.S.?
#355
US rank in 2025
~35,654
Americans share it since 1886
2008
its peak year
In 1974, 204 American boys were registered Joaquin — 562nd on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joaquin’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Joaquin Rafael Bottom, not the name they published under.
8
Expression · direction and scale
11
Soul Urge · insight
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 6: drive against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Joaquin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Crimson · Forest
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1974, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Joaquin apart
Signs, Brother Bear and Walk the Line. That is the work the name is attached to.
Joaquin Phoenix was 8 when the work began in 1982.
The family line: born to Arlyn Phoenix and John Lee Phoenix.
On Wikipedia the categories read American expatriates in Venezuela and Best Actor Academy Award winners.
Bill Gates (1955) and Julia Roberts (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Signs, Brother Bear and Walk the Line
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (2020), Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (2006) and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (2020)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1982
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- Spanish and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 92
What the chart says
Joaquin, according to the stars
Core essence
Joaquin does not do surface. The core of Joaquin 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 Joaquin is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Joaquin runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Joaquin needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Joaquin wants to be loved
Joaquin wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Joaquin even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Joaquin creates
How Joaquin makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Joaquin creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Joaquin is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Joaquin 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.
Computed from Joaquin's birth date. Working below.
Where Joaquin sits
Six lines
Joaquin’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Joaquin Phoenix
Three stars chosen from the real sky above San Juan 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 San Juan that night
Computed for 18.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Markab stood nearest the zenith over San Juan at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.6° above the horizon in Pegasus.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 81 catalog stars above the horizon.
San Juan sits at 18.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 96% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 44° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Joaquin Rafael Bottom
- Known as
- Joaquin Phoenix
- Born in
- San Juan, United States
- Lives in
- Hollywood Hills
Wikidata records Hollywood Hills as Joaquin Phoenix'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 Joaquin Phoenix: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Joaquin's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets
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 →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Joaquin Phoenix's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 28, 1974, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeads by moving.
Joaquin Phoenix was born on October 28, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Joaquin Phoenix's birth date, October 28, 1974, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Joaquin’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joaquin Phoenix's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joaquin Phoenix combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Joaquin’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 12° Aries 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
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb
Joaquin’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
Joaquin’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMoonoppositionPluto0.1° to 7.3° orb
Joaquin’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.3° to 3.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus1.4° to 2.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.1° to 2.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.1° to 2.6° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter2.7° to 3.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.4° to 5.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.4° to 4.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars4.4° to 4.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Joaquin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 21°37′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 1°16′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 0°52′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 1°29′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 18°54′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Mars 0.6°
- Ceres trine Mars 1.0°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 1.1°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 1.2°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.3°
- Eros trine Venus 1.7°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.3°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.7°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.7°
- Eros trine Mercury 2.8°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.9°
Joaquin’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
disposes Mercury, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Joaquin’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Venus, MarsThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.3°
Joaquin’s family here
One relative of Joaquin Phoenix also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Joaquin
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Born in United States
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- Ryan SeacrestAmerican television and radio presenter (born 1974)
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More charts like Joaquin’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Jack DorseyAmerican software entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter
- Willow SmithAmerican singer and actress
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Born in Tiger years
- Monica RaymundAmerican actress
- Thomas RavenelAmerican politician
- Wyatt RussellAmerican actor
Also born on October 28
- Bill Gates1955
- Julia Roberts1967
- Garrincha1933
- Matt Smith1982
- Caitlyn Jenner1949
- Frank Ocean1987
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Justin JeffreAmerican singer and politician
- Chuck NorrisAmerican martial artist and action actor
- Dylan McDermottAmerican actor
Other Scorpio Tiger charts
- MatPatAmerican YouTuber
- Joseline HernandezPuerto Rican television personality
- Cindy KimberlySpanish model and media personality
- Ryan AdamsAmerican musician (born 1974)
Other Tidal Architects
- Lane JohnsonAmerican football player (born 1990)
- Nahshon WrightAmerican football player
- Josh OliverAmerican football tight end
- Andrew Van GinkelAmerican football player (born 1995)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Toshihide MaskawaJapanese theoretical physicist
- Christian Lous LangeNorwegian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
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Joaquin’s cards
Computed from October 28, 1974. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joaquin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q185140 (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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joaquin Phoenix at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joaquin Phoenix.
Quick answers about Joaquin Phoenix’s chart
- How old is Joaquin Phoenix?
- Joaquin Phoenix is 52 years old, born October 28, 1974 in San Juan, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joaquin Phoenix?
- Joaquin Phoenix is a Scorpio: born October 28, 1974, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Joaquin Phoenix's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 28, 1974 birth.
- How tall is Joaquin Phoenix?
- Joaquin Phoenix is 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Joaquin Phoenix's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joaquin Phoenix's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Joaquin Phoenix's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joaquin Phoenix's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: disposes Mercury, Uranus, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
