Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cotten (born May 15, 1905, Petersburg, United States; died 1994), was an American actor. Cotten's honours include Volpi Cup for Best Actor and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Joseph Cotten’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Joseph
Joseph Cotten’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
In 1905, 3,302 American boys and 22 girls were registered Joseph — 7th among boys and 790th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joseph’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
22
Soul Urge · legacy
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Ivory · Blush · Botanical green
The record
What sets Joseph apart
Pierre Curie (1859) and Haerin (2006) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Joseph, according to the stars
Core essence
Joseph is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Joseph is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Joseph cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Joseph needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Joseph wants to be loved
Joseph wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Joseph creates
How Joseph makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Joseph builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Joseph 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Joseph runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Cotten
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Petersburg 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 Petersburg that night
Computed for 37.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Petersburg at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 5.9° of the exact zenith.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Petersburg sits at 37.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −52.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Petersburg on any night.
Sun 18° below the horizon, Moon up and 89% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Joseph's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · Venus retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Joseph Cotten's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 15, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Joseph Cotten was born on May 15, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Joseph Cotten's birth date, May 15, 1905, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Joseph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joseph Cotten's date-only chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Joseph Cotten combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
Joseph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Libra 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
stableMarsoppositionJupiter0.5° to 1.1° orb
Joseph’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.1° to 1.8° orb
Joseph’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextileUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
Joseph’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.0° to 2.6° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.6° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussextileSaturn3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.1° orb
stableVenustrineUranus5.2° to 5.3° orb
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 13.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 3.5° to 18.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Joseph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 6°42′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 10°08′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 17°57′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 28°25′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 12°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.0°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 1.5°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.1°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.6°
- Eros square Mars 2.9°
Joseph’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Joseph’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.5°
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Born in United States
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- John PatrickAmerican playwright and screenwriter
- Ralph Bunchediplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Fellow Taurus suns
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Born in Snake years
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Also born on May 15
- Pierre Curie1859
- Haerin2006
- Huddy2002
- Role Model1997
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- Jamie-Lynn Sigler1981
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Martin HairerAustrian-British mathematician working in stochastic analysis
- Peter ScholzeGerman mathematician
- Shigefumi MoriJapanese mathematician
Other Taurus Snake charts
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- Audrey HepburnBritish actress
- Edward JennerEnglish physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination
- Pierce BrosnanIrish actor
Other Evergreen Scholars
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- Ahed Al-TamimiPalestinian activist
- Adam Siao Him FaFrench figure skater
- Thomasin McKenzieNew Zealand actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Joseph’s cards
Computed from May 15, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q95148 (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 Photoplay Publishing Company; no photographer credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joseph Cotten 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 Joseph Cotten.
Quick answers about Joseph Cotten’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joseph Cotten?
- Joseph Cotten was a Taurus: born May 15, 1905, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Joseph Cotten's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 15, 1905 birth.
- How tall was Joseph Cotten?
- Joseph Cotten was 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Joseph Cotten's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joseph Cotten's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joseph Cotten's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joseph Cotten's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
