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, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 33 in numerology.Your match with Joseph
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
The SSA recorded 22,828 American boys and 65 girls named Joseph in 1943: 13th among boys and 989th 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
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
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 record
What sets Joseph apart
Reese Witherspoon (1976) and William Shatner (1931) 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 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. 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 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.
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 Schwantner
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Chicago was Talitha, in Ursa Major, 79.5° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 21° below the horizon, Moon up and 98% lit at full moon.
How unusual Joseph's chart is
Chart pattern score
17 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets at a critical degree
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 →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 33 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Libra 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
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
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn2.9° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.1° to 4.8° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableVenussquarePluto3.5° to 4.7° orb
stableUranussextilePluto3.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.4° orb
stableMarsoppositionPluto5.2° to 5.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 23°48′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 24°26′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 12°23′ (moves 0.84° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°10′
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 22°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Joseph’s dominant planets
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
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 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°
More people like Joseph
Other composers
- Hugh Masekela1939
- Bob Marley1945
- Stephen Albert1941
- Timothy B. Schmit1947
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich1939
- Henry Threadgill1944
Born in United States
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- Louise GlückU.S. poet and Nobel laureate
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- Don HankeyAmerican businessman
- James GoodnightAmerican businessman
- Michael BennettAmerican choreographer
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Fellow Aries suns
- Koo Bon-neungSouth Korean billionaire (born 1949)
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- Dmitry Mazepinbusinessman
Born in Goat years
- Anderson CooperAmerican journalist (born 1967)
- D'Arcy CardenAmerican actress and comedian
- Beth ChapmanAmerican reality television star
Also born on March 22
- Reese Witherspoon1976
- William Shatner1931
- Nick Robinson1995
- Fatih Birol1958
- Tyler Oakley1989
- Tony Elumelu1963
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- Kevin De BruyneBelgian association football player
- Abiy AhmedPrime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018
- Nadia ComăneciRomanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist
Other Aries Goat charts
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- John PoulakidasAmerican basketball player
- Adem BonaTurkish basketball player (born 2003)
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Guus TilDutch association football player (born 1997)
- Feleipe FranksAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Chris OlsenAmerican actor
- George R. R. MartinAmerican writer and television producer
Famous people with Life Path 33
- Ashish ChanchlaniIndian YouTuber
- Clarence ThomasAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991
- Alicia WittAmerican actress and singer-songwriter (born 1975)
From the journal: The modern vs traditional rulers debate · 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign
Joseph’s cards
Computed from March 22, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
33 · Lightkeeper♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joseph’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q323596 (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 Schwantner at Wikipedia, josephschwantner.com, 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 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.
- 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 is Joseph Schwantner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joseph Schwantner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
