Josephine Hull
Josephine Hull (born January 3, 1877, Newtonville, United States; died 1957), was an American stage and actress. Hull's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and Donaldson Awards.
Josephine Hull’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Josephine
Josephine Hull’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Josephine in the U.S.?
#53
US rank in 2025
~332,458
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
US name records start in 1880, 3 years after this birth. In that first year Josephine ranked 50th, with 544 American girls registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Josephine’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
1
Soul Urge · independence
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Josephine’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
The record
What sets Josephine apart
The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture came in 1950, when Josephine Hull was 73.
Study took Josephine Hull to New England Conservatory and Radcliffe College.
Josephine Hull was 28 when the work began in 1905.
The record gives cerebral hemorrhage as the cause, and Newton Cemetery as the resting place.
The family line: married Shelley Hull.
On Wikipedia the categories read Actresses from Newton, Massachusetts, American women theatre directors and New England Conservatory alumni.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892) and Greta Thunberg (2003) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New England Conservatory, Radcliffe College and Harvard University
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1951) and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture (1950)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Working from
- 1905
- Cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Buried at
- Newton Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 47
What the chart says
Josephine, according to the stars
Core essence
Josephine is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Josephine is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Josephine wants to be loved
Josephine wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Josephine and watch them fall for you again.
How Josephine creates
How Josephine makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Josephine creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Josephine is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Josephine 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Josephine runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Josephine's birth date. Working below.
Where Josephine sits
Six lines
Josephine’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 Josephine Hull
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newtonville 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 Newtonville that night
Computed for 42.35°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Newtonville at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 7.5° of the exact zenith.
Of the 108 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Newtonville sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −47.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Newtonville on any night.
Sun 49° below the horizon, Moon down and 77% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Newtonville, United States
The death is recorded at The Bronx, New York City in 1957.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Josephine Hull: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Josephine's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Uranus · 1 planet 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 →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunDry wit, dead serious.
Josephine Hull's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 3, 1877, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Fire Rat
Fire RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Josephine Hull was born on January 3, 1877, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
Josephine Hull's birth date, January 3, 1877, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Josephine’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Josephine Hull's date-only chart is Mars opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Josephine Hull combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Josephine’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Leo or Virgo 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
stableMarsoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.4° orb
Josephine’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMarssquareUranus1.0° to 1.7° orb
Josephine’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.4° to 2.9° orb
Josephine’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableUranussquarePluto1.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter5.6° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.3° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.4° to 13.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 5.1° to 19.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Josephine’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 25°38′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 3°08′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 26°00′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 11°58′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 28°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Neptune 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Chiron trine Uranus 1.4°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.5°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.5°
- Eros trine Uranus 1.8°
Josephine’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Josephine’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Mars, Pluto, UranusAn 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 semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.9°
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Also born on January 3
- J. R. R. Tolkien1892
- Greta Thunberg2003
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- Mary MartinAmerican actress
- Roy AcuffAmerican country music singer and fiddler
Other Capricorn Rat charts
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Other Radiant Visionarys
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Famous people with Life Path 9
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From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
Josephine’s cards
Computed from January 3, 1877. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
9 · Healer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Josephine’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q59525 (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 Vandamm Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Josephine Hull at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Josephine Hull.
Quick answers about Josephine Hull’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Josephine Hull?
- Josephine Hull was a Capricorn: born January 3, 1877, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What was Josephine Hull's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 3, 1877 birth.
- What was Josephine Hull's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What was Josephine Hull's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Josephine Hull's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Josephine Hull's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
