Joseph P. Lash
Joseph P. Lash (born December 2, 1909, New York City, United States; died 1987), was an American political activist. Lash is best remembered for Eleanor and Franklin. Lash's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, National Book Award and Francis Parkman Prize.
Joseph P. Lash’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Joseph
Joseph P. Lash’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
The SSA recorded 4,348 American boys and 30 girls named Joseph in 1909: 6th among boys and 737th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joseph’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
6 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
The record
What sets Joseph apart
Britney Spears (1981) and Lucy Liu (1968) 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 is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Joseph is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Joseph needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Joseph needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Joseph wants to be loved
Joseph wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Joseph you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Joseph creates
How Joseph makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Joseph creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Joseph is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Joseph is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
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 P. Lash
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.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 2.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from New York City on any night.
The Moon, 66% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.
How unusual Joseph's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Saturn
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 →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Joseph P. Lash's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 2, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Joseph P. Lash was born on December 2, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Joseph P. Lash's birth date, December 2, 1909, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Joseph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joseph P. Lash's date-only chart is Uranus opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Joseph P. Lash combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
Joseph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Leo 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
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.6° orb
Joseph’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileJupiter0.0° to 0.6° orb
Joseph’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Joseph’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.3° orb
stableMercurytrineMars4.8° to 6.0° orb
stableSuntrineMars5.4° to 6.0° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.4° to 5.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn6.8° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 1.6° to 14.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Joseph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 23°41′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 1°50′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 29°21′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 10°49′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Sun 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.9°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.3°
- Eros trine Venus 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.4°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.5°
Joseph’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Joseph’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn 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 quincunx Pluto 1.0°
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- Josephine JohnsonAmerican novelist, nature writer, poet
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Also born on December 2
- Britney Spears1981
- Lucy Liu1968
- Charlie Puth1991
- Juice Wrld1998
- Nelly Furtado1978
- Jana Kramer1983
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Michael McGlincheyNew Zealand association football player
- Ben OkriNigerian-born British poet and novelist
- J BalvinColombian singer
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- Francesca FaragoCanadian influencer and reality TV actress
Other Radiant Healers
- BalkrishnaIndian businessman, Scholar of Ayurveda
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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Joseph’s cards
Computed from December 2, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
6 · Guardian♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6286020 (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 Harris and Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joseph P. Lash 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 P. Lash.
Quick answers about Joseph P. Lash’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joseph P. Lash?
- Joseph P. Lash was a Sagittarius: born December 2, 1909, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Joseph P. Lash's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 2, 1909 birth.
- What was Joseph P. Lash's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joseph P. Lash's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joseph P. Lash's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joseph P. Lash's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
