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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Joe
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
Joe ranked 30th among boys and 461st among girls in 1941, the year of this birth, with 7,158 American boys and 226 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
7
Soul Urge · understanding
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
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 · 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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1941, 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
Creighton University shaped the training.
On the family side, Joe Ricketts was raised 4 children.
Will Ferrell (1967) and Margaret Court (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Creighton University
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 9
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. Working below.
Where Joe sits
Six lines
Joe’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Ricketts
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Nebraska City 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 Nebraska City that night
Computed for 40.68°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over Nebraska City at 9 p.m. that evening, 75.8° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Nebraska City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 1° below the horizon, Moon down and 43% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Nebraska City, United States
- Lives in
- Bondurant
Wikidata records Bondurant as Joe Ricketts's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joe Ricketts: 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
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No retrogrades at all
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 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.
What Cancer means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 3° Aries or Taurus 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
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
stableMarssextileJupiter3.3° to 3.6° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus3.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.1° to 4.6° orb
stableUranussextilePluto4.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 3°23′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 26°54′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 16°38′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 27°14′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 14°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Joe’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Joe’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
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More charts like Joe’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Phoebe TonkinAustralian actress
- Jack WhiteAmerican musician
- Golshifteh FarahaniIranian actress and musician
Born in Snake years
- Min-Liang TanSingaporean video game designer
- Eugene KasperskyRussian specialist in the information security field
- Lyudmila KoganRussian businesswoman
Also born on July 16
- Will Ferrell1967
- Margaret Court1942
- Wizkid1990
- Luke Hemmings1996
- Corey Feldman1971
- James Maslow1990
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Pierpaolo PiccioliItalian fashion designer
- Billie EilishAmerican singer-songwriter
- Emma StoneAmerican actress and producer
Other Cancer Snake charts
- Marshawn KneelandAmerican football player
- Kaylee McKeownAustralian swimmer
- Natalia GrossmanAmerican sport climber
- Connie NielsenDanish actress (born 1965)
Other Evergreen Diplomats
- Christian McCaffreyAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Octavia SpencerAmerican actress
- ChangbinSouth Korean rapper, dancer, singer and songwriter
- Serge MerlinFrench actor
Famous people with Life Path 2
- William S. McFeelyAmerican historian
- Natalie DiazMojave poet, writer and basketball player
- Steve Breencartoonist
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Joe’s cards
Computed from July 16, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
2 · Diplomat☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6212003 (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 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.
- 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 is Joe Ricketts's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joe Ricketts's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
