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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Snake, with 
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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
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Joseph’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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.
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
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
No documented birth time exists for Joseph Hooton Taylor, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Aries or Taurus depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Joseph’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineUranus3.5° to 4.1° orb
Joseph’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn3.7° to 3.8° orb
Joseph’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarsoppositionPluto4.4° to 5.0° orb
Joseph’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.2° to 5.4° orb
Joseph’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune6.7° to 8.0° orb
Joseph’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus6.7° to 6.9° orb
Joseph’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 25°15′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Joseph is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 5°14′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Joseph caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAries 16°04′ (moves 0.73° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Joseph is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaAries 23°02′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Joseph feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 2°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Joseph is read as immovable on those points.
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 square Pluto 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 1.7°
- Ceres square Venus 1.9°
- Chiron opposition Mars 2.1°
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. ♂ 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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Joseph is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joseph Hooton Taylor, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Joseph’s cards
Every card is computed from March 29, 1941, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Joseph Hooton Taylor, 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 Q192685, 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake.
- 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 time was Joseph Hooton Taylor 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 Hooton Taylor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the March 29, 1941 birth date.
- What is Joseph Hooton Taylor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 29, 1941 birth date.
- 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.
