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Joel Embiid

Joel Embiid (born March 16, 1994, Yaoundé, Cameroon), aged 32, is a Cameroonian and French basketball player. Embiid has played for Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball and Philadelphia 76ers.

Joel Embiid’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Wood Dog, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Joel Embiid’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Joel in the U.S.?

#219

US rank in 2025

~282,250

Americans share it since 1880

1985

its peak year

In 1994, 3,368 American boys and 24 girls were registered Joel — 108th among boys and 4,300th among girls on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Joel’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

7

Soul Urge · understanding

5

Personality · restless, adaptable

The name opens on J (1) and closes on L (3).

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Joel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1994, 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 Joel apart

Study took Joel Embiid to Montverde Academy and University of Kansas.

Joel Embiid was 20 when the work began in 2014.

On Wikipedia the categories read Basketball players from Yaoundé, Cameroonian emigrants to the United States and Bassa people (Cameroon).

Camilo and Pathé Ciss shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Montverde Academy and University of Kansas
Working from
2014
Sport
basketball
Citizenship
United States and France
Languages
French, English and Basaa
Wikipedia editions
37

What the chart says

Joel, according to the stars

Core essence

Joel feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Joel is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Joel is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Joel needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Joel wants to be loved

Joel wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Joel creates

How Joel makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Joel creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Joel is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Joel is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Joel slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Joel's birth date. Working below.

Where Joel sits

Six lines

Joel’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Joel

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Joel

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Joel

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Joel

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Joel

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Joel

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Joel Embiid

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Yaoundé 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 Yaoundé that night

Computed for 3.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Yaoundé at 9 p.m. that evening: Al Tarf of Cancer, within 5.6° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 98 catalog stars above the horizon.

Yaoundé sits at 3.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The Moon, 18% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.

How unusual Joel's chart is

Chart pattern score

53 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Pisces · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet

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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The quick version

Pisces Sun

Soft edges, deep pull.

Joel Embiid's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 16, 1994, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Wood Dog

Guards the gate all night.

Joel Embiid was born on March 16, 1994, which falls in a Wood Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Joel Embiid's birth date, March 16, 1994, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Joel’s chart

Joel’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 16° Taurus depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.1° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.1° orbMars fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.5° orbSun flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.4° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbUranus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.6° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.7° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 3.2° orbSun in Pisces · 25°38′☉25°Moon in Taurus · 11°04′☽11°Mercury in Aquarius · 28°07′☿28°Venus in Aries · 9°46′♀9°Mars in Pisces · 7°05′♂7°Jupiter in Scorpio · 14°16′ · retrograde♃℞14°Saturn in Pisces · 5°34′♄5°Uranus in Capricorn · 25°30′♅25°Neptune in Capricorn · 22°55′♆22°Pluto in Scorpio · 28°00′ · retrograde♇℞28°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquarePluto0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Joel’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn1.2° to 1.8° orb

    Joel’s drive and discipline act as one.

  • stableSuntrinePluto1.9° to 2.9° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune2.2° to 3.2° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.5° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune2.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn7.1° to 7.8° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 6.0° to 17.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

Joel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 4°39′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 13°31′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAries 28°29′ (moves 0.79° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 20°32′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 27°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.6°
  • Ceres opposition Jupiter 0.7°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.0°
  • Chiron opposition Mars 2.4°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 2.4°
  • Eros square Uranus 3.0°

Joel’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    disposes Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Joel’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Pisces · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree 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.

  • Mars semi-square Neptune 0.8°
  • Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.8°

Born the same day as Joel

2 other people here were born on March 16, 1994, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 98 catalog stars stood above Yaoundé, at 3.9°N that night, with Al Tarf nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.

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Joel’s cards

Computed from March 16, 1994. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Joel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15920046 (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 All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Joel Embiid at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joel Embiid.

Quick answers about Joel Embiid’s chart

How old is Joel Embiid?
Joel Embiid is 32 years old, born March 16, 1994 in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
What zodiac sign is Joel Embiid?
Joel Embiid is a Pisces: born March 16, 1994, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Joel Embiid's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 16, 1994 birth.
How tall is Joel Embiid?
Joel Embiid is 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Joel Embiid's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Joel Embiid's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Virgo at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Joel Embiid's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 27°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Joel Embiid's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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