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Joe Manganiello

Joe Manganiello (born December 28, 1976, Pittsburgh, United States), aged 49, is an American actor.

Joe Manganiello’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Joe Manganiello’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Visionary

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Joe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy

Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets Joe apart

John von Neumann (1903) and Liu Xiaobo (1955) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Joe, according to the stars

Core essence

Joe is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Joe 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, Joe 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 Joe needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Joe wants to be loved

Joe 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 Joe be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Joe creates

How Joe 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. Joe 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: Joe is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Joe is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Joe has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Joe's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Joe sits

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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Joe

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Joe

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Joe

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Dry wit, dead serious.

Joe Manganiello's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 28, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it. 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.

Fire Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Joe Manganiello was born on December 28, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Joe Manganiello's birth date, December 28, 1976, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in Joe’s chart

Joe’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Joe Manganiello, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 17° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.6° orbSaturn flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.5° orbMercury flows with Jupiter · Trine, 1.6° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbMoon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.8° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.2° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.6° orbSun in Capricorn · 7°07′☉7°Moon in Aries · 11°20′☽11°Mercury in Capricorn · 23°18′ · retrograde☿℞23°Venus in Aquarius · 22°17′♀22°Mars in Sagittarius · 27°31′♂27°Jupiter in Taurus · 21°43′ · retrograde♃℞21°Saturn in Leo · 16°01′ · retrograde♄℞16°Uranus in Scorpio · 10°45′♅10°Neptune in Sagittarius · 14°32′♆14°Pluto in Libra · 14°05′♇14°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Joe’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb

    Joe’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune1.4° to 1.5° orb

    Joe’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter1.5° to 1.6° orb

    Joe’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb

    Joe’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsextileUranus3.2° to 4.1° orb

    Joe’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus5.2° to 5.3° orb

    Joe’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableVenusoppositionSaturn5.7° to 6.9° orb

    Joe’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn5.7° orb

    Joe’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

Joe’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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 27°20′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Joe may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 5°20′ (moves 0.24° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Joe is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 8°33′ (moves 0.80° over the day)

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Joe is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 20°07′ (moves 0.10° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Joe is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 17°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Joe is read as immovable on those points.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron trine Mars 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 1.1°
  • Eros sextile Sun 1.4°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.6°
  • Ceres square Sun 1.8°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 2.2°

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°).

Joe’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects

A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Joe 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 Joe’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

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

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. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.2°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.4°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.0°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Mars semi-square Uranus 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joe Manganiello, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Joe’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Hermit

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

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Western zodiac

Capricorn

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Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Joe Manganiello, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Joe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q470005, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. 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 Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Joe Manganiello at Wikipedia, evolution359.com, IMDb, Instagram and X.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Joe Manganiello.

Quick answers about Joe Manganiello’s chart

How old is Joe Manganiello?
Joe Manganiello is 49 years old, born December 28, 1976 in Pittsburgh, United States.
What zodiac sign is Joe Manganiello?
Joe Manganiello is a Capricorn: born December 28, 1976, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dragon.
What is Joe Manganiello's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 28, 1976 birth.
What time was Joe Manganiello born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
What is Joe Manganiello's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the December 28, 1976 birth date.
What is Joe Manganiello's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 28, 1976 birth date.
Where is Joe Manganiello's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Joe Manganiello's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 5 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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