Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943, Fort Macleod, Canada, 22:00), aged 82, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Goat, with 
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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 1880
1956
its peak year
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Joni’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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The quick version
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Joni Mitchell's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time. 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.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
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
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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
Joni’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
VenussquareSaturnseparating · 2.6° orb
Joni’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 3.2° orb
Joni’s feelings grind against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarssextileJupiterseparating · 3.7° orb
Joni’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonoppositionVenusapplying · 3.9° orb
Joni’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
UranustrineNeptuneapplying · 4.4° orb
Joni’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MarsconjunctionSaturnseparating · 4.5° orb
Joni’s drive and discipline act as one.
MercurysquarePlutoseparating · 4.7° orb
Joni’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 4.8° orb
Joni’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 6.1° orb
Joni’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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.
⚷ ChironVirgo 13°13′ · House 3
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Joni turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 8°21′ · House 1
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Joni is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosScorpio 27°07′ · House 5
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. Joni is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaLibra 11°00′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Joni is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 18°39′ · House 2
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Joni is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- 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°
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°).
Joni’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Joni is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Joni’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
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 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.
- 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
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| 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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Stephen Greenblatt was born on November 7, 1943 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Joni’s cards
Every card is computed from November 7, 1943, 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
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 data comes from
Joni’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q205721, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 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. 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.
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Quick answers about Joni Mitchell’s chart
- How old is Joni Mitchell?
- Joni Mitchell is 82 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat.
- 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 from the November 7, 1943 birth date.
- What is Joni Mitchell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 13°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 7, 1943 birth time.
- 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.
