Joe Ricketts
Joe Ricketts (born July 16, 1941, Nebraska City, United States), aged 85, is an American businessman (born 1941).
Joe Ricketts’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.How compatible are you with Joe Ricketts?
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Joe Ricketts’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
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
2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Joe, according to the stars
Core essence
Joe feels the room before entering it. The core of Joe is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Joe, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
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 wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Joe gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Joe's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Joe sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Joe Ricketts at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
Joe Ricketts's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 16, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Joe Ricketts was born on July 16, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Joe Ricketts's birth date, July 16, 1941, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in Joe’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joe Ricketts' date-only chart is Saturn trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Joe Ricketts combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Joe’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Joe Ricketts, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableSaturntrineNeptune0.5° to 0.6° orb
Joe’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsextileNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb
Joe’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareMars1.2° to 1.5° orb
Joe’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.8° to 2.6° orb
Joe’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileJupiter3.3° to 3.6° orb
Joe’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.4° orb
Joe’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb
Joe’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrinePluto4.1° to 4.6° orb
Joe’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranussextilePluto4.3° orb
Joe’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 3.0° to 14.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 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.
⚷ ChironLeo 3°23′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Joe performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 26°54′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Joe is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosCancer 16°38′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Joe is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 27°14′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Joe is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 14°34′ (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 conjunction Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Saturn 1.3°
- Ceres square Neptune 1.5°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.9°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.7°
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. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Joe is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joe Ricketts, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Joe’s cards
Every card is computed from July 16, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Joe Ricketts, 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 Q6212003, 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.
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 Ricketts.
Quick answers about Joe Ricketts’s chart
- How old is Joe Ricketts?
- Joe Ricketts is 85 years old, born July 16, 1941 in Nebraska City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joe Ricketts?
- Joe Ricketts is a Cancer: born July 16, 1941, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake.
- What is Joe Ricketts's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 16, 1941 birth.
- What time was Joe Ricketts 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 Ricketts's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the July 16, 1941 birth date.
- What is Joe Ricketts's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 16, 1941 birth date.
- Where is Joe Ricketts's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joe Ricketts's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
