Joseph Rotblat
Joseph Rotblat (born November 4, 1908, Warsaw, Poland; died 2005), was a Polish-born British-naturalised physicist. Rotblat's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.
Joseph Rotblat’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Joseph
Joseph Rotblat’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
Joseph ranked 6th among boys and 865th among girls in 1908, the year of this birth, with 4,162 American boys and 21 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.
8
Expression · direction and scale
9
Soul Urge · meaning
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 2: drive against tact.
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 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Crimson · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1908, 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 Rotblat took the Albert Einstein Peace Prize in 1992, at 84.
The classrooms behind this chart: University of Liverpool and University of London.
The grave is at Hampstead Cemetery.
On the family side, Joseph Rotblat was born to Zygmunt Rotblat.
Wikipedia's editors put Joseph Rotblat under Academics of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital, British anti-nuclear weapons activists and Jewish British activists.
Matthew McConaughey (1969) and Tony Abbott (1957) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Liverpool, University of London and University of Warsaw
- Awards
- Nobel Peace Prize (1995), Jamnalal Bajaj Award (1999) and Albert Einstein Peace Prize (1992)
- Buried at
- Hampstead Cemetery
- Citizenship
- Poland and United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 61
What the chart says
Joseph, according to the stars
Core essence
Joseph does not do surface. The core of Joseph is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Joseph is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Joseph is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What Joseph needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How Joseph wants to be loved
Joseph wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Joseph gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Joseph fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Joseph Rotblat
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Warsaw 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 Warsaw that night
Computed for 52.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Warsaw was Caph, in Cassiopeia, 83.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
From 52.2°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −37.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Warsaw on any night.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon up and 84% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Warsaw, Poland
The death is recorded at London, Greater London in 2005.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joseph Rotblat: 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
T-square onto Mars
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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
Joseph Rotblat's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 4, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Joseph Rotblat was born on November 4, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Joseph Rotblat's birth date, November 4, 1908, 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 Rotblat's date-only chart is Mars square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joseph Rotblat combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Joseph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 26° Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMarssquareNeptune0.5° to 1.1° orb
Joseph’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.3° to 2.1° orb
Joseph’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableSunsextileUranus1.6° to 2.6° orb
Joseph’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssquareUranus2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn2.5° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto2.6° to 3.0° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.3° to 3.4° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableVenussquarePluto5.0° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.0° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable3 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 18°22′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 25°41′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 16°59′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Cancer 2°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 4°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mars 0.7°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.2°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.0°
- Chiron trine Mars 2.1°
Joseph’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Joseph’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Uranus, Neptune, MarsAn 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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 1.3°
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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 November 4, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q219982 (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.
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The same Joseph Rotblat at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Joseph Rotblat’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joseph Rotblat?
- Joseph Rotblat was a Scorpio: born November 4, 1908, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Joseph Rotblat's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 4, 1908 birth.
- What was Joseph Rotblat's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joseph Rotblat's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joseph Rotblat's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joseph Rotblat's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
