Joseph L. Goldstein
Joseph L. Goldstein (born April 18, 1940, Kingstree, United States), aged 86, is an American biochemist. Goldstein's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and Richard Lounsbery Award.
Joseph L. Goldstein’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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Joseph L. Goldstein’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Metal 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
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
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
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 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Joseph is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Joseph needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
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 refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Joseph creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Joseph is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Joseph scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Joseph's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Joseph sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Joseph L. Goldstein's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 18, 1940, 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 Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Joseph L. Goldstein was born on April 18, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Compassion at scale.
Joseph L. Goldstein's birth date, April 18, 1940, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in Joseph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joseph L. Goldstein's date-only chart is Mercury trine Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Jupiter, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Water.
- Joseph L. Goldstein combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
Joseph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Joseph L. Goldstein, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Virgo 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.
stableMercurytrinePluto0.6° to 1.8° orb
Joseph’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquarePluto1.6° to 2.6° orb
Joseph’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.6° to 2.7° orb
Joseph’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionMars2.8° to 3.1° orb
Joseph’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
Joseph’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.4° orb
Joseph’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.7° to 5.5° orb
Joseph’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 3.3° to 17.9° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 4.7° to 18.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water 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 14°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
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.
⚳ CeresVirgo 6°29′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Joseph caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosCapricorn 6°57′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Joseph is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaPisces 15°16′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Joseph needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 23°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Joseph is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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 opposition Neptune 0.7°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.1°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.9°
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. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
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.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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 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.
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury quintile Venus 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joseph L. Goldstein, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Joseph’s cards
Every card is computed from April 18, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Joseph L. Goldstein, 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 Q271424, 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 The original uploader was Rrawson at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joseph L. Goldstein 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.
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Quick answers about Joseph L. Goldstein’s chart
- How old is Joseph L. Goldstein?
- Joseph L. Goldstein is 86 years old, born April 18, 1940 in Kingstree, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joseph L. Goldstein?
- Joseph L. Goldstein is an Aries: born April 18, 1940, 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 Dragon.
- What is Joseph L. Goldstein's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 18, 1940 birth.
- What time was Joseph L. Goldstein 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 L. Goldstein's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the April 18, 1940 birth date.
- What is Joseph L. Goldstein's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 18, 1940 birth date.
- Where is Joseph L. Goldstein's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joseph L. Goldstein's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
