Josh Charles
Josh Charles (born September 15, 1971, Baltimore, United States), aged 55, is an American actor.
Josh Charles’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Pig, with 
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Josh Charles’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Josh apart
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1984) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Josh, according to the stars
Core essence
Josh notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Josh is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
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 attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Josh and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Josh creates
How Josh makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Josh 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: Josh is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Josh 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Josh 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 Josh's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Josh sits
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Josh Charles's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 15, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Josh Charles was born on September 15, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Josh Charles's birth date, September 15, 1971, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Josh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Josh Charles' date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Josh Charles combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Josh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Josh Charles, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Leo 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.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.1° orb
Josh’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineUranus0.4° orb
Josh’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.9° to 2.3° orb
Josh’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.2° to 1.3° orb
Josh’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
Josh’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.4° to 2.6° orb
Josh’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileJupiter2.7° to 3.8° orb
Josh’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.7° to 3.9° orb
Josh’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.6° to 5.0° orb
Josh’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercurysquareJupiter3.8° to 5.0° orb
Josh’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.3° orb
Josh’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineSaturn5.6° to 5.7° orb
Josh’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 12°27′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Josh may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCancer 29°05′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Josh is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosVirgo 22°36′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Josh is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°43′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Josh is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Josh that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.1°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.3°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.6°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.5°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.5°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.8°
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 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. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Josh is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mercury · Saturn, Neptune, MercuryAn 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. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.1°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.4°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Josh Charles, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Josh’s cards
Every card is computed from September 15, 1971, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Josh Charles, 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
Josh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q472282, 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.
Portrait by Gordon Correll, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Josh Charles at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Josh Charles.
Quick answers about Josh Charles’s chart
- How old is Josh Charles?
- Josh Charles is 55 years old, born September 15, 1971 in Baltimore, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Josh Charles?
- Josh Charles is a Virgo: born September 15, 1971, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig.
- What is Josh Charles's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 15, 1971 birth.
- What time was Josh Charles 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 Josh Charles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the September 15, 1971 birth date.
- What is Josh Charles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 15, 1971 birth date.
- Where is Josh Charles's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Josh Charles's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
