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Joseph Ellis

Joseph Ellis (born July 18, 1943, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 83, is an American historian (born 1943). Ellis is best known for Founding Brothers. Ellis's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, National Book Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Joseph Ellis’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Joseph Ellis’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Diplomat

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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

US Social Security Administration public records

Joseph’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 7

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

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

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 needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Joseph needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Joseph wants to be loved

Joseph 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 Joseph and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Joseph creates

How Joseph makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Joseph creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Joseph 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 6 is the nurturer. Joseph is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Joseph is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Joseph's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Joseph sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Joseph

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Joseph

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Joseph

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Joseph

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Joseph

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Joseph

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Joseph Ellis

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Washington on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Joseph’s birth-night reference starAlpheccablue-white · Corona BorealisAlphecca, in Corona Borealis. A blue-white star, 78° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alphecca →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 23.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Joseph Ellis in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

Joseph Ellis's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Water Goat

Needs beauty like air.

Joseph Ellis was born on July 18, 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 6

Responsible before asked.

Joseph Ellis's birth date, July 18, 1943, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.

What stands out in Joseph’s chart

Joseph’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Joseph Ellis, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 3° to 19° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 0.6° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.8° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.1° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 1.3° orbJupiter fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 2.6° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 3.5° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.6° orbSun in Cancer · 25°09′☉25°Moon in Aquarius · 11°32′☽11°Mercury in Cancer · 25°46′☿25°Venus in Virgo · 8°37′♀8°Mars in Taurus · 7°19′♂7°Jupiter in Leo · 3°52′♃3°Saturn in Gemini · 21°08′♄21°Uranus in Gemini · 7°29′♅7°Neptune in Virgo · 29°39′♆29°Pluto in Leo · 6°29′♇6°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Joseph’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMarssquarePluto0.5° to 1.1° orb

    Joseph’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussquareUranus0.8° to 1.5° orb

    Joseph’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.0° orb

    Joseph’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenustrineMars1.3° orb

    Joseph’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.5° to 2.7° orb

    Joseph’s growth and depths act as one.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune2.8° to 5.0° orb

    Joseph’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableMarssquareJupiter3.2° to 3.7° orb

    Joseph’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus3.5° to 3.7° orb

    Joseph’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunsextileNeptune4.0° to 5.0° orb

    Joseph’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb

    Joseph’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Joseph’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.

  • ⚷ ChironLeo 28°58′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Joseph performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 11°22′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Joseph feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ♡ ErosLeo 28°46′ (moves 0.89° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Joseph loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 27°56′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Joseph at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 6°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    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. Joseph is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

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.

  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 2.3°
  • Ceres square Venus 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°).

Joseph’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. 1. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury

  3. 3. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Joseph is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Joseph’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.2°
  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.4°
  • Mars semi-square Saturn 1.2°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joseph Ellis, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Joseph’s cards

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The Lovers

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Diplomat

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Joseph Ellis, 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

Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q669468, 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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Joseph Ellis at Wikipedia 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 Joseph Ellis.

Quick answers about Joseph Ellis’s chart

How old is Joseph Ellis?
Joseph Ellis is 83 years old, born July 18, 1943 in Washington, D.C., United States.
What zodiac sign is Joseph Ellis?
Joseph Ellis is a Cancer: born July 18, 1943, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat.
What is Joseph Ellis's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1943 birth.
What time was Joseph Ellis 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 Joseph Ellis's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the July 18, 1943 birth date.
What is Joseph Ellis's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Leo at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 18, 1943 birth date.
Where is Joseph Ellis's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Joseph Ellis's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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