Joby Warrick
Joby Warrick (born August 4, 1960, Goldsboro, United States), aged 66, is an American journalist (born 1960). Warrick's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Joby Warrick’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Joby
Joby Warrick’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Joby in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~1,242
Americans share it since 1939
1977
its peak year
Joby ranked 2,478th in 1960, the year of this birth, with 12 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joby’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 Y (7). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Joby’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, 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 Joby apart
Joby Warrick took the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2016, at 56.
The classrooms behind this chart: Temple University.
Wikipedia's editors put Joby Warrick under Temple University alumni, The Washington Post people and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winners.
The same date carries Abdul Samad Rabiu. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Temple University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2016)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 5
What the chart says
Joby, according to the stars
Core essence
Joby is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Joby is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Joby is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Joby needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Joby wants to be loved
Joby wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Joby openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Joby creates
How Joby makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Joby builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Joby is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Joby is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Joby leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Joby scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Joby's birth date. Working below.
Where Joby sits
Six lines
Joby’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Joby Warrick
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Goldsboro 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 Goldsboro that night
Computed for 35.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Goldsboro was Kornephoros, in Hercules, 75.9° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 35.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −54.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Goldsboro on any night.
The Moon, 94% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.
How unusual Joby's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet
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
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
Joby Warrick's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 4, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Joby Warrick was born on August 4, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Joby Warrick's birth date, August 4, 1960, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Joby’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joby Warrick's date-only chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Uranus, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Joby Warrick combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Joby’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 15° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrineJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Joby’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Joby’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.7° to 3.9° orb
Joby’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarssquarePluto3.1° to 3.7° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune5.3° to 6.3° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 6.2° to 21.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 6.9° to 20.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Joby’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 0°42′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 24°14′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 29°36′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 14°58′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 9°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Ceres opposition Venus 0.1°
- Chiron square Mars 0.9°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 1.8°
- Eros conjunction Mars 2.0°
Joby’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto3 pts
disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Joby’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, UranusThree 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.
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.3°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.9°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.9°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 1.0°
- Sun quintile Mars 1.4°
Born the same day as Joby
Abdul Samad Rabiu was born on August 4, 1960 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Goldsboro, at 35.4°N, nothing below −54.6° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Joby
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Born in United States
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- Amy KlobucharAmerican politician and lawyer (born 1960)
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More charts like Joby’s
Fellow Leo suns
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- Meghan, Duchess of SussexMember of the British royal family and Duchess of Sussex since 2018
Born in Rat years
- Cole BennettAmerican videographer
- Aspyn OvardAmerican social media personality
- Lori HarveyAmerican model and entrepreneur
Also born on August 4
- Barack Obama1961
- Antonio Valencia1985
- Billy Bob Thornton1955
- Mark Milligan1985
- Meg Whitman1956
- Daniel Dae Kim1968
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Audrey NunaSouth Korean-American singer and rapper
- Imane KhelifAlgerian boxer
- Mimi KeeneBritish actress
Other Leo Rat charts
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- Cole HolcombAmerican football player (born 1996)
Other Evergreen Scholars
- April BowlbyAmerican actress
- Amanda AnkaAmerican movie, television and voice actress
- Hilarie BurtonAmerican actress
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Famous people with Life Path 1
- Jack SzostakAmerican biologist
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Joby’s cards
Computed from August 4, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joby’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6206897 (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.
The same Joby Warrick at Wikipedia, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joby Warrick.
Quick answers about Joby Warrick’s chart
- How old is Joby Warrick?
- Joby Warrick is 66 years old, born August 4, 1960 in Goldsboro, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joby Warrick?
- Joby Warrick is a Leo: born August 4, 1960, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Joby Warrick's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 4, 1960 birth.
- What is Joby Warrick's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joby Warrick's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Joby Warrick's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joby Warrick's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
