Joseph Schwantner
Joseph Schwantner (born March 22, 1943, Chicago, United States), aged 83, is an American composer (born 1943). Schwantner's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Guggenheim Fellowship and Johann Wenzel Stamitz Award.
Joseph Schwantner’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Goat, with 
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Joseph Schwantner’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 33, 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Joseph’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
33 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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 cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Joseph needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
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 make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Joseph creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Joseph is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Joseph goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Joseph's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Joseph Schwantner's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 22, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Joseph Schwantner was born on March 22, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 33
Life Path 33Love as a job description.
Joseph Schwantner's birth date, March 22, 1943, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 33 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with teaching through care, service and example. Numerologists read it as an intensified 6, the nurturer's instinct turned toward a community rather than a household. The corresponding tension is self-sacrifice, with the caution that giving at that scale needs a source that is also being filled.
What stands out in Joseph’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joseph Schwantner's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Joseph Schwantner combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Joseph’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Joseph Schwantner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunsextileUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Joseph’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunoppositionNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb
Joseph’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMoontrineMars0.1° to 6.1° orb
Joseph’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranustrineNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb
Joseph’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
Joseph’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarstrineSaturn2.9° to 3.6° orb
Joseph’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.1° to 4.8° orb
Joseph’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrinePluto3.4° to 4.4° orb
Joseph’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquarePluto3.5° to 4.7° orb
Joseph’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranussextilePluto3.7° orb
Joseph’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.4° orb
Joseph’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionPluto5.2° to 5.9° orb
Joseph’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Joseph’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 23°48′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Joseph performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAries 24°26′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Joseph looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosTaurus 12°23′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Joseph wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°10′
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Joseph at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 22°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Joseph guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea trine Sun 0.0°
- Hygiea square Venus 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Eros square Mars 1.8°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 3.0°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Joseph’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
6 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Joseph is read as acting first and reflecting after.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Joseph’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joseph Schwantner, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Joseph’s cards
Every card is computed from March 22, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Joseph Schwantner, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q323596, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Joseph Schwantner at Wikipedia, josephschwantner.com, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Joseph Schwantner.
Quick answers about Joseph Schwantner’s chart
- How old is Joseph Schwantner?
- Joseph Schwantner is 83 years old, born March 22, 1943 in Chicago, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joseph Schwantner?
- Joseph Schwantner is an Aries: born March 22, 1943, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat.
- What is Joseph Schwantner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 22, 1943 birth.
- What time was Joseph Schwantner born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Joseph Schwantner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology from the March 22, 1943 birth date.
- What is Joseph Schwantner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 22, 1943 birth date.
- Where is Joseph Schwantner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joseph Schwantner's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
