Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett (born July 21, 1978, Saint Paul, United States), aged 48, is an American actor and producer. Notable films include Oppenheimer, Sin City and Pearl Harbor.
Josh Hartnett’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Horse, with 
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Josh Hartnett’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
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
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
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 feels the room before entering it. The core of Josh is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Josh, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Josh needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Josh needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Josh builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Josh is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Josh channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Josh's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Josh Hartnett's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 21, 1978, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
Josh Hartnett was born on July 21, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Josh Hartnett's birth date, July 21, 1978, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Josh’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Josh Hartnett's date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Josh Hartnett combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Josh’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Josh Hartnett, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Aquarius 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.
stableVenussextileUranus0.9° to 2.0° orb
Josh’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.1° to 1.5° orb
Josh’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° orb
Josh’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.6° to 4.4° orb
Josh’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableVenussquareNeptune4.5° to 5.6° orb
Josh’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareNeptune5.5° to 6.1° orb
Josh’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquarePluto6.1° to 6.3° orb
Josh’s growth grinds against their depths.
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 14.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 1.0° to 15.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 1.2° to 16.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 9°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Josh building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 14°16′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Josh caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCancer 25°05′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Josh is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 20°60′ (moves 0.08° 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 LilithCancer 20°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Josh guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Ceres square Pluto 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 0.3°
- Hygiea square Mars 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.0°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.3°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Chiron opposition 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. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter
2. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Josh is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Josh Hartnett, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Also born on July 21
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- Jawaharlal NehruPrime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
- Lyndon B. JohnsonPresident of the United States from 1963 to 1969
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Josh’s cards
Every card is computed from July 21, 1978, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Josh Hartnett, 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 Q303957, 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 Lindsey8417, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Josh Hartnett at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Hartnett.
Quick answers about Josh Hartnett’s chart
- How old is Josh Hartnett?
- Josh Hartnett is 48 years old, born July 21, 1978 in Saint Paul, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Josh Hartnett?
- Josh Hartnett is a Cancer: born July 21, 1978, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse.
- What is Josh Hartnett's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 21, 1978 birth.
- What time was Josh Hartnett 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 Hartnett's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the July 21, 1978 birth date.
- What is Josh Hartnett's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 21, 1978 birth date.
- Where is Josh Hartnett's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Josh Hartnett's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
