Joe Mayhew
Joe Mayhew (born August 20, 1942, Washington, D.C., United States; died 2000), was an American fan artist, science fiction writer, and librarian. Mayhew's honours include Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist.
Joe Mayhew’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Water Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Joe
Joe Mayhew’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 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
Joe ranked 33rd among boys and 480th among girls in 1942, the year of this birth, with 7,383 American boys and 236 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joe’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
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
Joe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Joe apart
Joe Mayhew took the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in 1998, at 56.
Training came by way of Mount St. Mary's University and University of Maryland.
Andrew Garfield (1983) and Amy Adams (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Mount St. Mary's University, University of Maryland and University of Waterloo
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist (1998)
What the chart says
Joe, according to the stars
Core essence
Joe is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Joe 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, Joe is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Joe needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Joe wants to be loved
Joe 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 Joe openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Joe creates
How Joe makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Joe creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
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 8 is the powerhouse. Joe is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Joe channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 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 Joe Mayhew
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington 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 Washington that night
Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Washington at 9 p.m. that evening: Vega of Lyra, within 9.4° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −51.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Washington on any night.
The Moon, 68% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 12° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Washington, D.C., United States
The death is recorded at Washington, D.C., District of Columbia in 2000.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joe Mayhew: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Joe's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Leo · 1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Mercury
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 →Joe Mayhew at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
Joe Mayhew's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 20, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Joe Mayhew was born on August 20, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Joe Mayhew's birth date, August 20, 1942, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Joe’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joe Mayhew's date-only chart is Venus sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joe Mayhew 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.
Joe’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Sagittarius 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
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb
Joe’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.5° to 1.1° orb
Joe’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.7° to 1.7° orb
Joe’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.1° to 2.3° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.2° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.5° to 3.0° orb
stableUranussextilePluto1.6° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter3.2° to 3.7° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.0° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus7.0° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Joe’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 19°50′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 2°42′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 14°08′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 21°56′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 29°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.7°
- Ceres trine Venus 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.1°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.7°
Joe’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Venus, Pluto
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Joe’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Venus, PlutoThree 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 quintile Neptune 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°
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Also born on August 20
- Andrew Garfield1983
- Amy Adams1974
- Robert Plant1948
- Ke Huy Quan1971
- N. R. Narayana Murthy1946
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Fellow Yin Wood day masters
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- Laura DernAmerican actress and producer
- Miranda CosgroveAmerican actress and producer
Other Leo Horse charts
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- Jourdan DunnEnglish model and actress
- Nessa BarrettAmerican singer
- Huening KaiSouth Korean-American singer and rapper
Other Evergreen Scholars
- Amy WinehouseEnglish singer-songwriter
- Bradley WhitfordAmerican actor (born 1959)
- Samira WileyAmerican actor and model
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Famous people with Life Path 8
- Patton OswaltAmerican actor and comedian
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From the journal: Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign · Is astrology a science?
Joe’s cards
Computed from August 20, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q140645369 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joe Mayhew.
Quick answers about Joe Mayhew’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joe Mayhew?
- Joe Mayhew was a Leo: born August 20, 1942, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Joe Mayhew's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 20, 1942 birth.
- What was Joe Mayhew's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joe Mayhew's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joe Mayhew's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joe Mayhew's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
