Joe Shuster
Joe Shuster (born July 10, 1914, Toronto, Canada; died 1992), was a Canadian-American comic book artist, co-creator of Superman. Shuster's honours include Canadian Comic Book Hall of Fame, Will Eisner Hall of Fame and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Joe Shuster’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Wood Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Tiger, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Joe
Joe Shuster’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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 3,712 American boys and 77 girls named Joe in 1914: 34th among boys and 664th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joe’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
5 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
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 1914, 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 Inkpot Award came in 1975, when Joe Shuster was 61.
The schooling ran through Glenville High School.
Cause of death is recorded as heart failure.
Wikipedia files Joe Shuster under American blind artists, Canadian illustrators and Bondage artists.
Nikola Tesla (1856) and Alice Munro (1931) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Glenville High School
- Awards
- Inkpot Award (1975), Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1979) and Will Eisner Hall of Fame (1992)
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Citizenship
- United States and Canada
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 36
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 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 bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Joe is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 Shuster
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Toronto 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 Toronto that night
Computed for 43.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Toronto was Edasich, in Draco, 73.7° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.
Toronto sits at 43.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Toronto at all: they sit past the −46.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 9° below the horizon, Moon down and 87% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Toronto, Canada
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1992.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joe Shuster: 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 unaspected planets · 4-planet stellium in Cancer · A leaning bowl
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.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Joe Shuster's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 10, 1914, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Tiger
Wood TigerBrave, bright, burns fast.
Joe Shuster was born on July 10, 1914, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Joe Shuster's birth date, July 10, 1914, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Joe’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joe Shuster's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Joe Shuster combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Joe’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Aquarius or Pisces 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
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 7.5° orb
Joe’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune0.2° to 0.7° orb
Joe’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.4° to 1.4° orb
Joe’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionJupiter2.7° to 4.0° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.8° to 5.9° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 6.5° to 18.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Joe’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 18°48′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 0°50′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 4°41′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 0°55′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 25°14′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 0.1°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.9°
- Chiron trine Sun 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.3°
Joe’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Joe’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Neptune, 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.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.4°
- Mars quintile Saturn 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.9°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 2.0°
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More charts like Joe’s
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Born in Tiger years
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Also born on July 10
- Nikola Tesla1856
- Alice Munro1931
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Christina MilianAmerican actress, songwriter and singer
- Addison RaeAmerican singer and actress
- Jenna FischerAmerican actress
Other Cancer Tiger charts
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Other Radiant Pioneers
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- Ons JabeurTunisian tennis player
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Joe’s cards
Computed from July 10, 1914. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
5 · Explorer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q471619 (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.
Portrait by DC Comics (Unknown photographer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joe Shuster at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joe Shuster.
Quick answers about Joe Shuster’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joe Shuster?
- Joe Shuster was a Cancer: born July 10, 1914, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was Joe Shuster's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 10, 1914 birth.
- What was Joe Shuster's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joe Shuster's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joe Shuster's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joe Shuster's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
