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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Joseph
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
Joseph ranked 12th among boys and 897th among girls in 1940, the year of this birth, with 18,208 American boys and 64 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joseph’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
33
Personality · warm authority
The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against 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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, 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
Joseph L. Goldstein took the Heinrich Wieland Prize in 1974, at 34.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Washington and Lee University.
Wikipedia's editors put Joseph L. Goldstein under University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center alumni, Medical geneticists and Washington and Lee University alumni.
Conan O'Brien (1963) and Haile Gebrselassie (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Washington and Lee University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1985), Heinrich Wieland Prize (1974) and National Medal of Science (1988)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 47
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. Working below.
Where Joseph sits
Six lines
Joseph’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 L. Goldstein
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kingstree 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 Kingstree that night
Computed for 33.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kingstree was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 81.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
From 33.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 86% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.
How unusual Joseph's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · A bowl chart · No Water 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 L. Goldstein's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 18, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 9 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Virgo 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
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
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn4.7° to 5.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 14°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 6°29′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 6°57′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 15°16′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 23°60′ (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 opposition Neptune 0.7°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.1°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.9°
Joseph’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Joseph’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Also born on April 18
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Joseph’s cards
Computed from April 18, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q271424 (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 The original uploader was Rrawson at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joseph L. Goldstein.
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.
- 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 is Joseph L. Goldstein's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joseph L. Goldstein's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
