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Josh Friedman

Josh Friedman (born February 14, 1967, United States), aged 59, is an American screenwriter. Friedman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.

Josh Friedman’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Josh Friedman’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Guardian

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, 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

3 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

South

Season

summer

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy

Violet · Ivory · Flame orange

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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 runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Josh needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Josh wants to be loved

Josh wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Josh, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

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 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Josh is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Josh 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 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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

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.

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Josh Friedman at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Josh Friedman's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 14, 1967, so no birth time is needed to settle it. 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.

Fire Goat

Gentle hands, strong opinions.

Josh Friedman was born on February 14, 1967, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Josh Friedman's birth date, February 14, 1967, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Josh’s chart

Josh’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Josh Friedman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.8° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 1° orbVenus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.3° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.7° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 1.9° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 2° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.8° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.8° orbSun in Aquarius · 25°21′25°Moon in Aries · 23°27′23°Mercury in Pisces · 13°16′13°Venus in Pisces · 18°37′18°Mars in Scorpio · 0°32′Jupiter in Cancer · 26°18′ · retrograde26°Saturn in Pisces · 28°00′27°Uranus in Virgo · 23°30′ · retrograde23°Neptune in Scorpio · 24°19′24°Pluto in Virgo · 19°57′ · retrograde19°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
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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.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.5° to 1.5° orb

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

  • stableVenusoppositionPluto0.7° to 2.0° orb

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

  • stableUranussextileNeptune0.8° orb

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

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn1.6° to 1.8° orb

    Josh’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune1.9° to 2.0° orb

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

  • stableJupitersextileUranus2.8° orb

    Josh’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableUranusconjunctionPluto3.5° to 3.6° orb

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

  • stableSaturntrineNeptune3.6° to 3.7° orb

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

  • stableMarssquareJupiter4.1° to 4.4° orb

    Josh’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus4.2° to 5.5° orb

    Josh’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturnoppositionUranus4.4° to 4.6° orb

    Josh’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.4° orb

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

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water6 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ChironPisces 23°56′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    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.

  • CeresGemini 23°07′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Josh feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ErosAquarius 8°56′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

    Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Josh is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.

  • HygieaSagittarius 26°15′ (moves 0.35° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Josh is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.

  • Black Moon LilithAries 5°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Josh carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron opposition Uranus 0.4°
  • Chiron trine Neptune 0.4°
  • Ceres square Uranus 0.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 0.9°
  • Hygiea square Saturn 1.7°
  • Ceres trine Sun 2.2°
  • Chiron trine Jupiter 2.4°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 2.8°

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. 1. Uranus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. Neptune9 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 6 major aspects

  3. 3. Pluto6 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Josh is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

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.

  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Sun · Jupiter, Uranus, SunTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

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.

  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.9°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 1.9°
  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 2.0°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Josh Friedman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Josh’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The World

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Guardian

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

yin Fire

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

yang Water

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

yin Earth

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Josh Friedman, 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 Q6288874, 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 MR"(O)" from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Josh Friedman at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.

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 Friedman.

Quick answers about Josh Friedman’s chart

How old is Josh Friedman?
Josh Friedman is 59 years old, born February 14, 1967 in United States.
What zodiac sign is Josh Friedman?
Josh Friedman is an Aquarius: born February 14, 1967, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Goat.
What is Josh Friedman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 14, 1967 birth.
What time was Josh Friedman 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 Friedman's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the February 14, 1967 birth date.
What is Josh Friedman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 14, 1967 birth date.
Where is Josh Friedman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Josh Friedman's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Neptune is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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