How old is Joe Biden?

Joe Biden is 83 years old, born November 20, 1942 in Scranton, United States.

What zodiac sign is Joe Biden?

Joe Biden is a Scorpio: born November 20, 1942, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.

What is Joe Biden's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 20, 1942 birth.

What time was Joe Biden born?

08:30 local time in Scranton, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).

What is Joe Biden's rising sign?

Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 08:30 birth time in Scranton, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).

How tall is Joe Biden?

Joe Biden is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.

What is Joe Biden's Life Path number?

Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.

What is Joe Biden's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Leo at 28°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where is Joe Biden's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 9°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What is Joe Biden's dominant planet?

Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Joe Biden

Joe Biden (born Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.; November 20, 1942, Scranton, United States, 08:30), aged 83 is a 46th President of the United States.

Joe Biden (born 1942) served as the 46th President of the United States. Biden has held office as United States senator and council member. Biden's honours include Grand Cross of the Order of Boyacá, Order of the Three Stars, 2nd Class and Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Joe Biden’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

Your match with Joe

Joe Biden’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Guardian

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

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

#994

US rank in 2025

~464,574

Americans share it since 1880

1936

its peak year

The SSA recorded 7,383 American boys and 236 girls named Joe in 1942: 33rd among boys and 480th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Joe’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., not the name they published under.

Expression · the bigger picture

Soul Urge · freedom

Personality · quietly formidable

The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Joe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus

Gold · Crimson · Soft pink

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 1942, 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 Joe apart

The record Joe Biden is measured by: Promises to Keep and Promise Me, Dad.

The schooling ran through University of Delaware and Archmere Academy.

On the family side, Joe Biden was born to Jean Biden and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr., married Jill Biden and Neilia Hunter and raised 4 children.

Nadine Gordimer (1923) and Edwin Hubble (1889) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for: Promises to Keep and Promise Me, Dad
Educated at: University of Delaware, Archmere Academy and Garden City Collegiate
Awards: Presidential Medal of Freedom (2017), St. George's Order of Victory (2009) and Time 100 (2022)
Sport: American football
Citizenship: United States
Languages: English
Wikipedia editions: 278

What the chart says

Joe, according to the stars

Core essence

Joe does not do surface. The core of Joe 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 Joe is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Joe is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Joe needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Joe wants to be loved

Joe 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 Joe even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Joe creates

How Joe makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Joe creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Joe 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Joe is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Joe 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 Joe's birth date. Working below.

Where Joe sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network

Joe

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

DeliberateSpontaneous

Joe

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive

Joe

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Joe

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

PracticalVisionary

Joe

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Joe

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

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Joe Biden

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Scranton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Joe’s birth-sky starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 78° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 26.9° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Scranton at 08:30, Joe Biden’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Scranton that night

Computed for 41.41°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Scranton was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 78.0° up.

Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Scranton sits at 41.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −48.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Scranton on any night.

The Moon, 95% lit at waxing gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat -5° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
Known as: Joe Biden
Born in: Scranton, United States

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Joe's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Purple Star 紫微, The Breaker 破軍 in 未

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Wealth

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 4/6

Sacral authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

68 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Scorpio · Yod onto Moon · 1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Deep water, no shallow end.

Joe Biden's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.

What Scorpio means →

Water Horse

Open road, open heart.

Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 2

Listens first, then decides.

Joe Biden's birth date, November 20, 1942, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Joe’s chart

Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Joe Biden's timed chart: Saturn in the 7th house and Uranus in the 7th house.
The tightest major aspect in Joe Biden's timed chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of about 1°.
Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
Joe Biden combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.

Joe’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.

Lines drawn

Conjunction 0°

Sextile 60°

Square 90°

Trine 120°

Opposition 180°

Placements

Tap one to light it on the wheel.

AscendantSagittarius

The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 1.0° orb
Joe’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 1.3° orb
Joe’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SuntrineJupiterseparating · 2.4° orb
Joe’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
SaturnsextilePlutoapplying · 2.7° orb
VenussextileNeptuneapplying · 3.0° orb
VenustrineJupiterseparating · 3.4° orb
MercurytrineJupiterapplying · 3.6° orb
SunsextileNeptuneapplying · 4.0° orb
VenusoppositionUranusapplying · 4.2° orb
UranussextilePlutoseparating · 4.5° orb
SunoppositionUranusapplying · 5.2° orb
MarssquarePlutoseparating · 5.4° orb
MoonsquareJupiterseparating · 5.9° orb
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 6.0° orb
MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 6.2° orb
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 7.0° orb
SaturnconjunctionUranusapplying · 7.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

Fire1 of 10
Earth1 of 10
Air3 of 10
Water5 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal2 of 10
Fixed6 of 10
Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

⚷ ChironLeo 28°53′ · House 9
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 20°06′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 20°18′ · House 3
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 13°32′ · House 9
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 9°22′ · House 8
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Chiron square Venus 0.3°
Hygiea square Mars 0.9°
Eros square Mercury 1.2°
Chiron square Sun 1.3°
Ceres trine Mercury 1.4°
Chiron trine Moon 2.1°

Joe’s dominant planets

1. ♇ Pluto11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Moon, Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Joe’s chart

Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, 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.
Yod onto Moon · Venus, Neptune, MoonTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.2°
Moon quincunx Neptune 0.5°
Moon semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
Moon quincunx Venus 2.4°

Joe’s houses

Joe’s houses
House	Sign	Ruler	Planets	Themes
1	Sagittarius	Jupiter in Cancer, house 8	empty	self, body, how you arrive
2	Capricorn	Saturn in Gemini, house 7	empty	money, possessions, self-worth
3	Aquarius	Uranus in Gemini, house 7	empty	mind, siblings, the local world
4	Pisces	Neptune in Libra, house 11	empty	home, family, roots
5	Aries	Mars in Scorpio, house 12	empty	creativity, romance, play
6	Taurus	Venus in Scorpio, house 12	Moon	work, habits, health
7	Gemini	Mercury in Scorpio, house 12	Saturn, Uranus	partnership, marriage, open rivals
8	Cancer	Moon in Taurus, house 6	Jupiter	shared resources, intimacy, transformation
9	Leo	Sun in Scorpio, house 12	Pluto	belief, travel, higher learning
10	Virgo	Mercury in Scorpio, house 12	empty	career, reputation, public life
11	Libra	Venus in Scorpio, house 12	Neptune	friends, community, the future
12	Scorpio	Pluto in Leo, house 9	Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars	the inner world, rest, what is hidden

Joe’s family here

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Joe’s cards

Computed from November 20, 1942. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

Western zodiac

Chinese zodiac

Life Path

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Joe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6279 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Adam Schultz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joe Biden.

Quick answers about Joe Biden’s chart

How old is Joe Biden?: Joe Biden is 83 years old, born November 20, 1942 in Scranton, United States.
What zodiac sign is Joe Biden?: Joe Biden is a Scorpio: born November 20, 1942, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What is Joe Biden's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 20, 1942 birth.
What time was Joe Biden born?: 08:30 local time in Scranton, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is Joe Biden's rising sign?: Sagittarius rising, calculated from the documented 08:30 birth time in Scranton, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
How tall is Joe Biden?: Joe Biden is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Joe Biden's Life Path number?: Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Joe Biden's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Leo at 28°, in the ninth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Joe Biden's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 9°, in the eighth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Joe Biden's dominant planet?: Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Your match with Joe

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

What Joe’s name adds up to

Joe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

What sets Joe apart

Joe, according to the stars

Core essence

The vibe

How Joe wants to be loved

How Joe creates

Instinct

Purpose

Triggers

Six lines

Dedicate a star to Joe Biden

The sky over Scranton that night

The name and the places

What Joe's birth time unlocks

The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Water Horse

Life Path 2

What stands out in Joe’s chart

Joe’s birth chart

Aspects, tightest first

Chart signature

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

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Joe’s dominant planets

Configurations in Joe’s chart

Minor aspects

Joe’s houses

Joe’s family here

More people like Joe

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Born in United States

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Born in Horse years

Also born on November 20

Fellow Yin Fire day masters

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Joe’s cards

BaZi pillars

Quick answers about Joe Biden’s chart

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