Joel McHale
Joel McHale (born November 20, 1971, Rome, Italy), aged 54, is an American actor and comedian.
Joel McHale’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Pig, with 
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Joel McHale’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Joel’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Joel apart
Joe Biden (1942) and Nadine Gordimer (1923) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Joel, according to the stars
Core essence
Joel does not do surface. The core of Joel is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Joel is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Joel wants to be loved
Joel wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Joel and watch them fall for you again.
How Joel creates
How Joel makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Joel creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Joel is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Joel is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Joel sits
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Joel’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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Joel McHale in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Joel McHale's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 20, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Joel McHale was born on November 20, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22Dreams at full scale.
Joel McHale's birth date, November 20, 1971, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Joel’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joel McHale's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joel McHale combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Joel’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Joel McHale, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.2° orb
Joel’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.8° to 0.9° orb
Joel’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
Joel’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.9° to 3.1° orb
Joel’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrinePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
Joel’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileUranus2.1° to 3.3° orb
Joel’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileUranus3.4° to 3.6° orb
Joel’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextilePluto3.5° to 4.5° orb
Joel’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.9° to 4.5° orb
Joel’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune4.6° to 5.6° orb
Joel’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssquareNeptune4.8° to 5.4° orb
Joel’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquareJupiter5.1° to 5.5° orb
Joel’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Joel’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 9°47′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Joel may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresLeo 19°20′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. Joel is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosScorpio 16°10′ (moves 0.75° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Joel is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaLibra 17°15′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Joel is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 19°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Joel that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Ceres trine Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.1°
- Ceres trine Mercury 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.8°
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°).
Joel’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. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Joel is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Joel’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.
Stellium in Sagittarius · Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, NeptuneThree 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.
T-square onto Mars · Saturn, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.5°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joel McHale, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Joel’s cards
Every card is computed from November 20, 1971, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Joel McHale, 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
Joel’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q311993, 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.
Portrait by Gage Skidmore, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joel McHale at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Joel McHale.
Quick answers about Joel McHale’s chart
- How old is Joel McHale?
- Joel McHale is 54 years old, born November 20, 1971 in Rome, Italy.
- What zodiac sign is Joel McHale?
- Joel McHale is a Scorpio: born November 20, 1971, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig.
- What is Joel McHale's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 20, 1971 birth.
- What time was Joel McHale 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 Joel McHale's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the November 20, 1971 birth date.
- What is Joel McHale's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 20, 1971 birth date.
- Where is Joel McHale's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joel McHale's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Mercury, Venus, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Pluto is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
