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Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. (born May 13, 1913, St. Louis, United States; died 1993), was an American newspaperman and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Pulitzer,'s honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards.

Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Ox, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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

Joseph ranked 5th among boys and 860th among girls in 1913, the year of this birth, with 14,471 American boys and 38 girls on the register.

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

1

Soul Urge · independence

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.

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

5 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus

Ivory · Blush · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1913, 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 Pulitzer, Jr. took the Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards in 1987, at 74.

The classrooms behind this chart: St. Mark's School and Harvard University.

Cause of death is recorded as colorectal cancer.

Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. was born to Elinor Catlin Wickham and Joseph Pulitzer, married Emily Rauh Pulitzer and raised one child.

Wikipedia's editors put Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. under Pulitzer family, St. Mark's School (Massachusetts) alumni and American newspaper publishers (people).

Stevie Wonder (1950) and Scott Morrison (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
St. Mark's School and Harvard University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (1987)
Cause of death
colorectal cancer
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Joseph, according to the stars

Core essence

Joseph is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Joseph is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Joseph builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Joseph is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

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

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Intimate circleWide network
Joseph

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Joseph

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Joseph

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Joseph

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Joseph

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Joseph

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Louis on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Joseph’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 84.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 16.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over St. Louis that night

Computed for 38.63°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at St. Louis was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 84.6° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 87 catalog stars were up in all.

From 38.6°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 St. Louis at all: they sit past the −51.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 57% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 19° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
St. Louis, United States

The death is recorded at St. Louis, Missouri in 1993.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.: 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

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Venus retrograde · A leaning bowl

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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If you only read one paragraph

Taurus Sun

Slow to move, slower to leave.

Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.'s Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 13, 1913, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Water Ox

Carries the load without comment.

Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. was born on May 13, 1913, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.'s birth date, May 13, 1913, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Joseph’s chart

Joseph’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 2° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Venus · Trine, 0.4° orbMars opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.2° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.3° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.1° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.6° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.9° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.2° orbSun in Taurus · 22°21′☉22°Moon in Leo · 25°47′☽25°Mercury in Taurus · 2°29′☿2°Venus in Aries · 26°13′ · retrograde♀℞26°Mars in Aries · 4°18′♂4°Jupiter in Capricorn · 17°44′ · retrograde♃℞17°Saturn in Gemini · 5°29′♄5°Uranus in Aquarius · 7°33′ · retrograde♅℞7°Neptune in Cancer · 23°38′♆23°Pluto in Gemini · 28°41′♇28°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.8° to 1.8° orb

    Joseph’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarssextileSaturn0.9° to 1.5° orb

    Joseph’s drive opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus2.0° to 2.1° orb

    Joseph’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableVenussextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune2.5° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMarssextileUranus2.9° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto3.0° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter4.1° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus4.2° to 5.9° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto5.2° to 6.0° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus5.4° to 7.2° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune5.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Joseph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 14°33′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 25°15′ (moves 0.22° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosGemini 17°22′ (moves 0.90° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 1°35′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 8°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.9°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.6°
  • Ceres opposition Sun 2.9°
  • Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.9°

Joseph’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars6 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Joseph’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.8°

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Joseph’s cards

Computed from May 13, 1913. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6286371 (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 Robert LeRoy Knudsen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Quick answers about Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.’s chart

What zodiac sign was Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.?
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. was a Taurus: born May 13, 1913, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 13, 1913 birth.
What was Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.'s Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.'s Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.'s dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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