Joseph Bathanti
Joseph Bathanti (born July 20, 1953, Pittsburgh, United States), aged 73, is an American poet, novelist, professor. Bathanti has served as North Carolina Poet Laureate. Bathanti's honours include North Carolina Award for Literature.
Joseph Bathanti’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Water Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Joseph
Joseph Bathanti’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Joseph in the U.S.?
#29
US rank in 2025
~2,680,213
Americans share it since 1880
1956
its peak year
Joseph ranked 13th among boys and 1,243rd among girls in 1953, the year of this birth, with 29,269 American boys and 61 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joseph’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
22
Soul Urge · legacy
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Joseph’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1953, 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 Joseph apart
Joseph Bathanti took the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2016, at 63.
The classrooms behind this chart: Central Catholic High School and University of Pittsburgh.
The same date carries Thomas Friedman. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Central Catholic High School and University of Pittsburgh
- Awards
- North Carolina Award for Literature (2016)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
Joseph, according to the stars
Core essence
Joseph feels the room before entering it. The core of Joseph is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Joseph, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Joseph feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Joseph needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Joseph wants to be loved
Joseph 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 Joseph like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Joseph creates
How Joseph makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Joseph 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: Joseph is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Joseph is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Joseph does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Joseph's birth date. Working below.
Where Joseph sits
Six lines
Joseph’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Joseph Bathanti
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh that night
Computed for 40.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Pittsburgh was Alphecca, in Corona Borealis, 76.4° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Pittsburgh at all: they sit past the −49.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 68% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 3° down.
How unusual Joseph's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Cancer · A bowl chart · No Earth planets
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 →Joseph Bathanti at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunHard shell, soft centre.
Joseph Bathanti's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 20, 1953, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Snake
Water SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Joseph Bathanti was born on July 20, 1953, which falls in a Water Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Joseph Bathanti's birth date, July 20, 1953, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Joseph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joseph Bathanti's date-only chart is Saturn conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joseph Bathanti combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Joseph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Scorpio 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
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
Joseph’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
Joseph’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.0° orb
Joseph’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.8° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn2.6° to 3.2° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune2.6° to 3.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.4° to 3.7° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.4° to 5.0° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn4.8° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune4.8° to 5.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.
Joseph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 17°33′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 2°02′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 26°10′ (moves 0.74° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 3°53′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 23°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 0.8°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.8°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.1°
Joseph’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune6 pts
6 major aspects
Configurations in Joseph’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
- Mars semi-sextile Pluto 2.0°
Born the same day as Joseph
Thomas Friedman was born on July 20, 1953 too, 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.4°N, the sky above Pittsburgh stops at −49.6° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Joseph’s cards
Computed from July 20, 1953. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6281383 (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.
The same Joseph Bathanti at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joseph Bathanti.
Quick answers about Joseph Bathanti’s chart
- How old is Joseph Bathanti?
- Joseph Bathanti is 73 years old, born July 20, 1953 in Pittsburgh, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joseph Bathanti?
- Joseph Bathanti is a Cancer: born July 20, 1953, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Joseph Bathanti's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 20, 1953 birth.
- What is Joseph Bathanti's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joseph Bathanti's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Joseph Bathanti's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joseph Bathanti's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
