Joel Grey
Joel Grey (born April 11, 1932, Cleveland, United States), aged 94, is an American actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer (born 1932). Grey's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Joel Grey’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Water Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Joel
Joel Grey’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, 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
Joel ranked 206th among boys and 2,304th among girls in 1932, the year of this birth, with 624 American boys and 14 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joel’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on L (3). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 7: movement against analysis.
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
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
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 1932, 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
Joel Grey took the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1967, at 35.
The classrooms behind this chart: Alexander Hamilton High School and Beverly Hills High School.
The working life starts in 1951, at 19.
On the family side, Joel Grey was born to Mickey Katz, married Jo Wilder and raised one child.
Wikipedia's editors put Joel Grey under American LGBTQ photographers, Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles) alumni and Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winners.
Alessandra Ambrosio (1981) and Duncan Laurence (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Alexander Hamilton High School and Beverly Hills High School
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1973), National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (1972) and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (1972)
- Nominated for
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
- Working from
- 1951
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 43
What the chart says
Joel, according to the stars
Core essence
Joel leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Joel is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Joel processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Joel needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Joel wants to be loved
Joel wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Joel like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Joel creates
How Joel makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Joel creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Joel is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Joel is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Joel 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 Joel's birth date. Working below.
Where Joel sits
Six lines
Joel’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 Joel Grey
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cleveland 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 Cleveland that night
Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cleveland was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 85.4° up.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 41.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 30% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 20° down.
How unusual Joel's chart is
Chart pattern score
60 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Aries · Yod onto Neptune
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Joel Grey's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 11, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Joel Grey was born on April 11, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Joel Grey's birth date, April 11, 1932, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Joel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joel Grey's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joel Grey combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Joel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Gemini 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
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Joel’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquarePluto0.2° to 1.0° orb
Joel’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussextileMars0.3° to 0.6° orb
Joel’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableUranussquarePluto0.5° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune1.0° to 2.0° orb
stableSunsquarePluto1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.3° to 3.1° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus1.7° to 2.6° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.3° to 3.0° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableMarstrineJupiter5.7° to 6.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus6.8° to 6.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Joel’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 21°18′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 22°19′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 3°10′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 13°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 27°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 0.5°
- Ceres square Sun 0.7°
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.3°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.3°
- Ceres square Mercury 2.9°
- Ceres square Uranus 2.9°
Joel’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Joel’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, Mars, UranusThree 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.
Yod onto Neptune · Mars, Saturn, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.4°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Mars quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.6°
Joel’s family here
One relative of Joel Grey also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Born in Monkey years
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- Juan Manuel Santospresident of Colombia from 2010 to 2018
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Joel’s cards
Computed from April 11, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q316641 (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 Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joel Grey at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Grey.
Quick answers about Joel Grey’s chart
- How old is Joel Grey?
- Joel Grey is 94 years old, born April 11, 1932 in Cleveland, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joel Grey?
- Joel Grey is an Aries: born April 11, 1932, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Joel Grey's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 11, 1932 birth.
- What is Joel Grey's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joel Grey's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Joel Grey'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 Grey's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
