Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943, Fort Macleod, Canada, 22:00), aged 83, is a Canadian musician. Mitchell is best known for Help Me, Carey and Big Yellow Taxi. Mitchell's honours include Grammy Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.
Joni Mitchell’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Joni
Joni Mitchell’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Scholar
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Joni in the U.S.?
#1803
US rank in 2025
~29,502
Americans share it since 1930
1956
its peak year
The SSA recorded 27 American girls named Joni in 1943: 1,644th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joni’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Roberta Joan Anderson, not the name they published under.
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Expression · connecting people
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Soul Urge · solid ground
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Personality · composed, private
The name opens on R (9) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Joni’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
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 1943, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Joni apart
The record Joni Mitchell is measured by: Blue, Got 'til It's Gone and Court and Spark.
The schooling ran through Aden Bowman Collegiate and Alberta University of the Arts.
Joni Mitchell was 24 when the work began in 1967.
On the family side, Joni Mitchell was married Larry Klein.
Wikipedia files Joni Mitchell under Canadian women folk singers, Appalachian dulcimer players and Asylum Records artists.
Stephen Greenblatt shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Blue, Got 'til It's Gone and Court and Spark
- Educated at
- Aden Bowman Collegiate and Alberta University of the Arts
- Instruments
- piano, guitar, voice and Appalachian dulcimer
- Awards
- Grammy Hall of Fame (1998), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1997) and Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (2000)
- Nominated for
- Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year and Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year
- Working from
- 1967
- Citizenship
- Canada and United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 75
What the chart says
Joni, according to the stars
Core essence
Joni does not do surface. The core of Joni 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 Joni is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Joni is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Joni needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Joni wants to be loved
Joni wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Joni and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Joni creates
How Joni 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. Joni 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: Joni is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Joni is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Joni scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Joni's birth date. Working below.
Where Joni sits
Six lines
Joni’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Joni Mitchell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Fort Macleod on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Fort Macleod at 22:00, Joni Mitchell’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Fort Macleod that night
Computed for 49.73°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Fort Macleod was Caph, in Cassiopeia, 79.7° up.
Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 49.7°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −40.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Fort Macleod on any night.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon up and 82% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Roberta Joan Anderson
- Known as
- Joni Mitchell
- Born in
- Fort Macleod, Canada
- Lives in
- Toronto · Saskatoon
Wikidata records Toronto and Saskatoon as Joni Mitchell's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Fort Macleod, Shared Places reads Toronto as weak for this chart: 44 of 100, 60th of 163 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Astana, Kazakhstan, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Joni's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Charmer 貪狼 in 子
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Relationships
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Manifesting Generator, profile 2/4
Sacral authority · Single definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Saturn · Mars retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Joni Mitchell's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What Scorpio means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Joni Mitchell was born on November 7, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Joni Mitchell's birth date, November 7, 1943, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Joni’s chart
- One of the ten planets sits in angular houses in Joni Mitchell's timed chart: Neptune in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Joni Mitchell's timed chart is Jupiter sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Joni Mitchell combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
Joni’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
JupitersextileSaturnapplying · 0.8° orb
Joni’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
UranussextilePlutoseparating · 1.0° orb
Joni’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MoonsquareSaturnapplying · 1.3° orb
Joni’s feelings grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 1.4° orb
VenussquareSaturnseparating · 2.6° orb
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 3.2° orb
MarssextileJupiterseparating · 3.7° orb
MoonoppositionVenusapplying · 3.9° orb
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 4.4° orb
MarsconjunctionSaturnseparating · 4.5° orb
MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 4.7° orb
VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 4.8° orb
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Joni’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironVirgo 13°13′ · House 3
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 8°21′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 27°07′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 11°00′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 18°39′ · House 2
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mercury 0.2°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.4°
- Chiron sextile Sun 1.7°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.3°
- Eros trine Moon 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.7°
Joni’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Joni’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Moon, Venus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Venus 0.0°
- Sun biquintile Mars 0.5°
- Moon quincunx Jupiter 0.5°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Moon quintile Uranus 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
Joni’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Pisces, house 9 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 5 | Jupiter, Pluto | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Scorpio, house 5 | Venus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 3 | Neptune | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Leo, house 2 | Sun, Mercury | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 2 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 12 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Gemini, house 12 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Libra, house 4 | Moon | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Gemini, house 12 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 3 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Scorpio, house 5 | Mars, Saturn, Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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12Born the same day as Joni
Stephen Greenblatt was born on November 7, 1943 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 49.7°N, Fort Macleod keeps Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Joni’s cards
Computed from November 7, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ScholarWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joni’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q205721 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joni Mitchell at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joni Mitchell.
Quick answers about Joni Mitchell’s chart
- How old is Joni Mitchell?
- Joni Mitchell is 83 years old, born November 7, 1943 in Fort Macleod, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Joni Mitchell?
- Joni Mitchell is a Scorpio: born November 7, 1943, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
- What is Joni Mitchell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 7, 1943 birth.
- What time was Joni Mitchell born?
- 22:00 local time in Fort Macleod, Canada, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Joni Mitchell's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 22:00 birth time in Fort Macleod, Canada (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- How tall is Joni Mitchell?
- Joni Mitchell is 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Joni Mitchell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joni Mitchell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 13°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Joni Mitchell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 18°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joni Mitchell's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
