Joseph Livingston
Joseph Livingston (born February 10, 1905, New York City, United States; died 1989), was an American journalist. Livingston's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Joseph Livingston’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Joseph
Joseph Livingston’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
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) × fixed 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
In 1905, 3,302 American boys and 22 girls were registered Joseph — 7th among boys and 790th 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
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 1905, 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 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting came in 1965, when Joseph Livingston was 60.
Joseph Livingston was 20 when the work began in 1925.
On Wikipedia the categories read Gerald Loeb Memorial Award winners, American business and financial journalists and The Philadelphia Inquirer people.
Mia Khalifa (1993) and Lee Hsien Loong (1952) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1965)
- Working from
- 1925
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
Joseph, according to the stars
Core essence
Joseph is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Joseph is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
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 cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Joseph creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Joseph runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Livingston
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.6° above the horizon in Auriga.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°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 −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon up and 35% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1989.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joseph Livingston: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Joseph's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Venus · 1 unaspected planet
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Joseph Livingston's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 10, 1905, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWatches. Waits. Then precisely.
Joseph Livingston was born on February 10, 1905, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Joseph Livingston's birth date, February 10, 1905, 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 Livingston's date-only chart is Sun trine Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joseph Livingston combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Joseph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° 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
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
stableSuntrinePluto1.0° to 2.0° orb
Joseph’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn1.4° to 2.3° orb
Joseph’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareNeptune1.7° to 2.8° orb
Joseph’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitersextileSaturn2.1° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.8° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.6° to 4.4° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.6° to 5.6° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.2° to 12.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Joseph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 2°25′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 7°52′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 2°43′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 6°28′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 2°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.1°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.5°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 0.8°
- Eros opposition Neptune 3.0°
Joseph’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in Joseph’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
T-square onto Venus · Uranus, Neptune, VenusAn 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.
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Venus biquintile Mars 1.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
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Joseph’s cards
Computed from February 10, 1905. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q90860111 (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.
The same Joseph Livingston 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 Livingston.
Quick answers about Joseph Livingston’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joseph Livingston?
- Joseph Livingston was an Aquarius: born February 10, 1905, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Joseph Livingston's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 10, 1905 birth.
- What was Joseph Livingston's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joseph Livingston's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joseph Livingston's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joseph Livingston's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
