Joseph Murray
Joseph Murray (born April 1, 1919, Milford, United States; died 2012), was an US surgeon. Murray's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Laetare Medal and honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Joseph Murray’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Joseph
Joseph Murray’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 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, 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
Of the names registered in 1919, Joseph came 7th among boys and 749th among girls, carried by 24,266 American boys and 89 girls.
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
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
7 · 2
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1919, 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 Murray took the Amory Prize in 1961, at 42.
The classrooms behind this chart: Milford High School and College of the Holy Cross.
The grave is at Christ Church Cemetery.
Joseph Murray was raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Joseph Murray: People from Milford, Massachusetts, American surgeons and Physicians of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940) and Milan Kundera (1929) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Milford High School, College of the Holy Cross and Harvard Medical School
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1990), Laetare Medal (2005) and Amory Prize (1961)
- Buried at
- Christ Church Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 56
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 runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Joseph needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Joseph creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Joseph is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Joseph is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Joseph gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 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 Murray
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Milford 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 Milford that night
Computed for 42.14°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Milford was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 84.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Milford at all: they sit past the −47.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon down and 2% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Milford, United States
- Lived in
- Wellesley
Wikidata records Wellesley as Joseph Murray's home, against Milford as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Boston, Suffolk County in 2012.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joseph Murray: 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
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · A bowl chart · 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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Joseph Murray's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 1, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
Joseph Murray was born on April 1, 1919, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Joseph Murray's birth date, April 1, 1919, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Joseph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joseph Murray's date-only chart is Mercury trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joseph Murray 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 14° to 29° Aries 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
stableMercurytrineSaturn0.1° to 0.4° orb
Joseph’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.1° to 2.3° orb
Joseph’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineSaturn1.6° to 2.4° orb
Joseph’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.6° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.5° to 4.6° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.8° to 4.8° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune4.0° to 5.2° orb
stableUranustrinePluto4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.8° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Joseph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 3°23′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 6°40′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 20°19′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 5°37′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 7°31′ (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 trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.5°
- Eros square Mars 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.9°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Chiron square Pluto 1.2°
- Eros square Mercury 1.2°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.6°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.9°
Joseph’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Joseph’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.8°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 1.0°
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Joseph’s cards
Computed from April 1, 1919. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q192282 (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 Murray 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 Murray.
Quick answers about Joseph Murray’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joseph Murray?
- Joseph Murray was an Aries: born April 1, 1919, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Joseph Murray's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 1, 1919 birth.
- What was Joseph Murray's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joseph Murray's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joseph Murray's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joseph Murray's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
