Joseph Hooton Taylor
Joseph Hooton Taylor (born March 29, 1941, Philadelphia, United States), aged 85, is an American astronomer. Taylor's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Albert Einstein Medal and Henry Draper Medal.
Joseph Hooton Taylor’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Snake, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Snake, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Joseph
Joseph Hooton Taylor’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 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, 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
The SSA recorded 19,808 American boys and 66 girls named Joseph in 1941: 12th among boys and 908th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joseph’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.
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
2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Silver
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 1941, 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
The Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics came in 1980, when Joseph Hooton Taylor was 39.
Joseph Hooton Taylor was taught at Haverford College and Moorestown Friends School.
Wikipedia files Joseph Hooton Taylor under Moorestown Friends School alumni, People from Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey and Winners of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.
Lucy Lawless (1968) and Sam Walton (1918) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Haverford College, Moorestown Friends School and University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Awards
- Albert Einstein Medal (1991), Nobel Prize in Physics (1993) and Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1980)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 68
What the chart says
Joseph, according to the stars
Core essence
Joseph leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Joseph is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Joseph creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Joseph is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Joseph does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 night
Dedicate a star to Joseph Hooton Taylor
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia that night
Computed for 39.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Philadelphia at 9 p.m. that evening, 81.0° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
Philadelphia sits at 40.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −50.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 5% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 29° down.
How unusual Joseph's chart is
Chart pattern score
39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Air 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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Joseph Hooton Taylor's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 29, 1941, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Snake
Metal SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Joseph Hooton Taylor was born on March 29, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Listens first, then decides.
Joseph Hooton Taylor's birth date, March 29, 1941, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Joseph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joseph Hooton Taylor's date-only chart is Venus trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air.
- Joseph Hooton Taylor combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Joseph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrinePluto0.6° to 1.9° orb
Joseph’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.0° to 1.8° orb
Joseph’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.3° to 2.3° orb
Joseph’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMarstrineUranus3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.4° to 5.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.2° to 5.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.7° to 8.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus6.7° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Joseph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 25°15′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 5°14′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 16°04′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 23°02′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 2°26′ (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 square Pluto 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Ceres square Venus 1.9°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.1°
Joseph’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Joseph’s chart
Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.0°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.3°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.2°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.6°
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Joseph’s cards
Computed from March 29, 1941. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
2 · Diplomat♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192685 (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 2008JosephTaylorWithMarietta.jpg: Betsythedevine Betsy Devine derivative work: Materialscientist (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joseph Hooton Taylor 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 Hooton Taylor.
Quick answers about Joseph Hooton Taylor’s chart
- How old is Joseph Hooton Taylor?
- Joseph Hooton Taylor is 85 years old, born March 29, 1941 in Philadelphia, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joseph Hooton Taylor?
- Joseph Hooton Taylor is an Aries: born March 29, 1941, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Joseph Hooton Taylor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 29, 1941 birth.
- What is Joseph Hooton Taylor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joseph Hooton Taylor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Joseph Hooton Taylor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joseph Hooton Taylor's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
