Joseph Pevney
Joseph Pevney (born September 15, 1911, New York City, United States; died 2008), was an American actor and director. Pevney's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Joseph Pevney’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Joseph
Joseph Pevney’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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 1911, 6,488 American boys and 28 girls were registered Joseph — 6th among boys and 820th 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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as 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 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1911, 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 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation came in 1968, when Joseph Pevney was 57.
Joseph Pevney was 39 when the work began in 1950.
Joseph Pevney lies at Eden Memorial Park.
Joseph Pevney was married Mitzi Green.
On Wikipedia the categories read Burials at Eden Memorial Park Cemetery, Hugo Award winners and Film directors from New York City.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1984) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1968)
- Working from
- 1950
- Buried at
- Eden Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 17
What the chart says
Joseph, according to the stars
Core essence
Joseph notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Joseph is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Joseph processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Joseph needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Joseph wants to be loved
Joseph wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Joseph and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Joseph creates
How Joseph makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Joseph creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Joseph is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. 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 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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Pevney
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.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at New York City was Sadr, in Cygnus, 86.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 31° below the horizon, Moon down and 46% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Palm Desert, Riverside County in 2008.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joseph Pevney: 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
63 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · No Fire 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 →Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Joseph Pevney's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 15, 1911, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Pig
Metal PigGenerous to the last coin.
Joseph Pevney was born on September 15, 1911, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Gives without keeping score.
Joseph Pevney's birth date, September 15, 1911, 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 Pevney's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joseph Pevney combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Joseph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Gemini 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
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.1° orb
Joseph’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.7° to 1.4° orb
Joseph’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.0° to 1.6° orb
Joseph’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineSaturn1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune1.6° to 2.2° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune3.2° orb
stableSuntrineUranus3.4° to 4.3° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.9° to 4.5° orb
stableSaturntrineUranus5.5° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Joseph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 3°45′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 17°36′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 0°39′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 20°43′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 0°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mars 0.4°
- Hygiea square Venus 0.7°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 1.6°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 2.5°
Joseph’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Joseph’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
Kite · Sun, Saturn, Uranus, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Venus, Saturn, Uranus, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 2.0°
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Also born on September 15
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
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Joseph’s cards
Computed from September 15, 1911. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
9 · Healer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1350636 (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 Pevney at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joseph Pevney.
Quick answers about Joseph Pevney’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joseph Pevney?
- Joseph Pevney was a Virgo: born September 15, 1911, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Joseph Pevney's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 15, 1911 birth.
- What was Joseph Pevney's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joseph Pevney's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joseph Pevney's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joseph Pevney's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
