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Josh Brolin

Josh Brolin (born February 12, 1968, Santa Monica, United States, 10:22), aged 58, is an American actor. Notable films include Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Brolin's honours include MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.

Josh Brolin’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

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Josh Brolin’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Josh in the U.S.?

#1703

US rank in 2025

~17,288

Americans share it since 1880

1979

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Josh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

11 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Violet · Ivory · Gold

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Josh, according to the stars

Core essence

Josh is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Josh is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Josh needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Josh needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Josh wants to be loved

Josh wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Josh you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Josh creates

How Josh makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Josh creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Josh 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 11 is the visionary, a master number. Josh is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Josh slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Josh's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Josh sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Josh

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Josh

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

PrivateExpressive
Josh

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Josh

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

PracticalVisionary
Josh

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Josh

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Josh Brolin's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Earth Monkey

Clever, playful, never bored.

Josh Brolin was born on February 12, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

Life Path 11

Nervy, gifted, tuned high.

Josh Brolin's birth date, February 12, 1968, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.

What stands out in Josh’s chart

Josh’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.2° orbVenus flows with Pluto · Trine, 1.4° orbMars faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.9° orbUranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.1° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.6° orbMercury faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.8° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.2° orbSun in Aquarius · 23°07′ · house 10☉23°Moon in Leo · 4°09′ · house 4☽4°Mercury in Aquarius · 29°06′ · house 10 · retrograde☿℞29°Venus in Capricorn · 20°51′ · house 9♀20°Mars in Pisces · 26°39′ · house 11♂26°Jupiter in Virgo · 1°53′ · house 5 · retrograde♃℞1°Saturn in Aries · 9°13′ · house 12♄9°Uranus in Virgo · 28°32′ · house 5 · retrograde♅℞28°Neptune in Scorpio · 26°28′ · house 7♆26°Pluto in Virgo · 22°16′ · house 5 · retrograde♇℞22°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCTau 12°06′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCSco 12°06′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCCap 26°51′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICCnc 26°51′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
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AscendantTaurus
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MarstrineNeptuneseparating · 0.2° orb

    Josh’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • VenustrinePlutoapplying · 1.4° orb

    Josh’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • MarsoppositionUranusapplying · 1.9° orb

    Josh’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • UranussextileNeptuneapplying · 2.1° orb

    Josh’s need for freedom opens doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MercurysquareNeptuneapplying · 2.6° orb

    Josh’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • MercuryoppositionJupiterseparating · 2.8° orb

    Josh’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • SunsquareNeptuneapplying · 3.4° orb

    Josh’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.2° orb

    Josh’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MarsoppositionPlutoseparating · 4.4° orb

    Josh’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • MoontrineSaturnapplying · 5.1° orb

    Josh’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • JupitersquareNeptuneapplying · 5.4° orb

    Josh’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 6.0° orb

    Josh’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • UranusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 6.3° orb

    Josh’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

Josh’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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 27°13′ · House 11

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Josh absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 4°52′ · House 7

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

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Josh is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ♡ ErosLibra 13°48′ · House 6

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

    Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Josh is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 23°54′ · House 10

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Josh is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 15°59′ · House 1

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Josh is read as immovable on those points.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Chiron conjunction Mars 0.6°
  • Ceres square Moon 0.7°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.8°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 2.6°
  • Ceres 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°).

Josh’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ☉ Sun8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus8 pts

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

A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: Josh is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.

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 Josh’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Mercury, Jupiter, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

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.

  • Sun biquintile Uranus 0.6°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.6°
  • Sun quincunx Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun semi-square Saturn 1.1°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.3°

Josh’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1TaurusVenus in Capricorn, house 9emptyself, body, how you arrive
2GeminiMercury in Aquarius, house 10emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3CancerMoon in Leo, house 4emptymind, siblings, the local world
4LeoSun in Aquarius, house 10Moonhome, family, roots
5VirgoMercury in Aquarius, house 10Jupiter, Uranus, Plutocreativity, romance, play
6LibraVenus in Capricorn, house 9emptywork, habits, health
7ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 5Neptunepartnership, marriage, open rivals
8SagittariusJupiter in Virgo, house 5emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CapricornSaturn in Aries, house 12Venusbelief, travel, higher learning
10AquariusUranus in Virgo, house 5Sun, Mercurycareer, reputation, public life
11PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 7Marsfriends, community, the future
12AriesMars in Pisces, house 11Saturnthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Josh’s family here

2 relatives of Josh Brolin also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

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Josh’s cards

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The Tidal Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Hour

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Josh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q41396, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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.

Portrait by Max Surprenant, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Josh Brolin at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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.

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Quick answers about Josh Brolin’s chart

How old is Josh Brolin?
Josh Brolin is 58 years old, born February 12, 1968 in Santa Monica, United States.
What zodiac sign is Josh Brolin?
Josh Brolin is an Aquarius: born February 12, 1968, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey.
What is Josh Brolin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 12, 1968 birth.
What time was Josh Brolin born?
10:22 local time in Santa Monica, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Josh Brolin's rising sign?
Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 10:22 birth time in Santa Monica, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Josh Brolin?
Josh Brolin is 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Josh Brolin's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the February 12, 1968 birth date.
What is Josh Brolin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 27°, in the eleventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 12, 1968 birth time.
Where is Josh Brolin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 15°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Josh Brolin's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Moon sign, Leo; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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