Joseph Lelyveld
Joseph Lelyveld (born April 5, 1937, Cincinnati, United States; died 2024), was an American journalist. Lelyveld's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Fulbright Scholarship and George Polk Award.
Joseph Lelyveld’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Joseph
Joseph Lelyveld’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Visionary
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 11, 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
In 1937, 17,322 American boys and 61 girls were registered Joseph — 12th among boys and 886th among girls on the SSA's list that 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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice 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
11 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy
White · Crimson · Flame orange
The record
What sets Joseph apart
Pharrell Williams (1973) and Lily James (1989) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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 slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Joseph is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Joseph creates
How Joseph makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Joseph creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Joseph is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Joseph is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Joseph has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step 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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Lelyveld
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati that night
Computed for 39.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Cincinnati at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 9.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Cincinnati sits at 39.1°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 −50.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 31% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 21° below the horizon.
How unusual Joseph's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Mercury · 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.
Score your own chart →Joseph Lelyveld at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Joseph Lelyveld's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 5, 1937, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Fire Ox
Fire OxReliable to the bone.
Joseph Lelyveld was born on April 5, 1937, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Joseph Lelyveld's birth date, April 5, 1937, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Joseph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joseph Lelyveld's date-only chart is Mercury square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Joseph Lelyveld combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Visionary.
Joseph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableMercurysquarePluto0.0° to 1.9° orb
Joseph’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrinePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Joseph’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiteroppositionPluto1.5° to 1.6° orb
Joseph’s growth pulls against their depths from across the wheel.
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.6° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.8° to 4.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.6° to 8.0° orb
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 7.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 11.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.5° to 13.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Joseph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 18°51′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 15°36′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 1°59′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 5°52′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 20°27′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.7°
- Chiron square Neptune 2.0°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.3°
Joseph’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Joseph’s chart
T-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Pluto, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.9°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.4°
More people like Joseph
Other journalists
- Walter Pincus1932
- Susan Sheehan1937
- Edwin A. Roberts Jr.1932
- Loren Jenkins1938
- Mike Royko1932
- Lewis M. Simons1939
Born in United States
- Terry CarrAmerican writer and editor
- Billy Dee WilliamsAmerican actor (born 1937)
- Robert D. McFaddenAmerican journalist
- Merle HaggardAmerican country music songwriter, singer, and musician
- David NewmanAmerican screenwriter
- Seymour HershAmerican investigative journalist (born 1937)
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Fellow Aries suns
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- Douglas SantosBrazilian footballer (born 1994)
Born in Ox years
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- Zara LarssonSwedish singer-songwriter
- Antonio ValenciaPortughez association football player
Also born on April 5
- Pharrell Williams1973
- Lily James1989
- Sterling K. Brown1976
- Gregory Peck1916
- Bette Davis1908
- Spencer Tracy1900
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Guglielmo MarconiItalian inventor and radio pioneer
- Arthur C. ClarkeBritish science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist
- Haruki MurakamiJapanese writer
Other Aries Ox charts
- Carol GreiderAmerican molecular biologist
- Stephen BonsalAmerican diplomat
- Howard LindsayAmerican theatrical producer, director, playwright, librettist and actor
- Jerome WeidmanAmerican writer
Other Tidal Visionarys
- Charlie CoxBritish actor
- Burna BoyNigerian singer and songwriter
- Victor WembanyamaFrench basketball player
- Ester ExpósitoSpanish actress
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Ben ShapiroAmerican conservative political commentator
- Golshifteh FarahaniIranian actress and musician
- Logan PaulAmerican YouTuber and Internet personality
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Joseph’s cards
Computed from April 5, 1937. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q976445 (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.
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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joseph Lelyveld.
Quick answers about Joseph Lelyveld’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joseph Lelyveld?
- Joseph Lelyveld was an Aries: born April 5, 1937, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Joseph Lelyveld's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 5, 1937 birth.
- What was Joseph Lelyveld's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joseph Lelyveld's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joseph Lelyveld's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joseph Lelyveld's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
