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Josh Duhamel

Josh Duhamel (born November 14, 1972, Minot, United States), aged 53, is an American actor and former model. Notable films include Transformers, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Duhamel's honours include Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Josh Duhamel’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Josh Duhamel’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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

The SSA recorded 356 American boys named Josh in 1972: 420th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Josh’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

6

Soul Urge · being needed

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Josh’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus

Gold · Crimson · Soft pink

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1972, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Josh apart

Josh Duhamel was taught at Minot State University and Minot High School.

Josh Duhamel was 27 when the work began in 1999.

Josh Duhamel was born to Bonnie L. Kemper and Larry Duhamel and married Fergie and Audra Mari.

Wikipedia files Josh Duhamel under Mass media people from Minot, North Dakota, Fergie (singer) and Minot State Beavers football players.

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889) and Charles III (1948) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Minot State University and Minot High School
Working from
1999
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
117

What the chart says

Josh, according to the stars

Core essence

Josh does not do surface. The core of Josh is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Josh is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Josh wants to be loved

Josh wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Josh gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Josh creates

How Josh 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. Josh 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: Josh 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Josh is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Josh fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Josh's birth date. Working below.

Where Josh sits

Six lines

Josh’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Josh

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Josh

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

PrivateExpressive
Josh

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Josh

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

PracticalVisionary
Josh

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Josh

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Josh Duhamel

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Minot 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 Minot that night

Computed for 48.23°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Schedar stood nearest the zenith over Minot at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.2° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.

Of the 101 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

At 48.2°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Minot at all: they sit past the −41.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon up and 60% lit at first quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Minot, United States
Lives in
Encino

Wikidata records Encino as Josh Duhamel's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Josh Duhamel: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Josh's chart is

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Libra · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl

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.

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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

Intense, private, loyal.

Josh Duhamel's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 14, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Water Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Josh Duhamel was born on November 14, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Josh Duhamel's birth date, November 14, 1972, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Josh’s chart

Josh’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon flows with Mars · Trine, 0.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.9° orbVenus flows with Saturn · Trine, 1° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.8° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.8° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.8° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 5.6° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 6.5° orbSun in Scorpio · 22°28′☉22°Moon in Aquarius · 28°57′☽28°Mercury in Sagittarius · 12°22′☿12°Venus in Libra · 17°59′♀17°Mars in Libra · 29°13′♂29°Jupiter in Capricorn · 7°30′♃7°Saturn in Gemini · 19°00′ · retrograde♄℞18°Uranus in Libra · 20°45′♅20°Neptune in Sagittarius · 4°31′♆4°Pluto in Libra · 3°40′♇3°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoontrineMars0.0° to 6.4° orb

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

  • stableVenustrineSaturn0.4° to 1.7° orb

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

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° to 0.9° orb

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

  • stableSaturntrineUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.2° to 3.4° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionSaturn6.5° to 6.8° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune7.8° to 7.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.5° to 12.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.7° to 14.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 2.1° to 14.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air6 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

Josh’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°32′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 3°47′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 27°43′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 15°26′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 29°29′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.2°
  • Eros trine Mars 1.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 2.5°

Josh’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus7 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Josh’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Venus, Mars, Uranus, 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.0°
  • Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.2°
  • Venus semi-square Neptune 1.5°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.7°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.9°

Josh’s family here

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Josh’s cards

Computed from November 14, 1972. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Josh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q19794 (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 Daniel Benavides from Austin, TX, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Josh Duhamel at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Josh Duhamel.

Quick answers about Josh Duhamel’s chart

How old is Josh Duhamel?
Josh Duhamel is 53 years old, born November 14, 1972 in Minot, United States.
What zodiac sign is Josh Duhamel?
Josh Duhamel is a Scorpio: born November 14, 1972, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What is Josh Duhamel's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 14, 1972 birth.
What is Josh Duhamel's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Josh Duhamel's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Josh Duhamel's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Josh Duhamel's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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