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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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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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

The SSA recorded 431 American boys named Josh in 1978: 371st 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.

5

Expression · versatility

3

Soul Urge · being heard

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on J (1) and closes on H (8). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 2: drive against tact.

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 · 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 record

What sets Josh apart

The schooling ran through Cretin-Derham Hall High School and State University of New York at Purchase.

Josh Hartnett was 19 when the work began in 1997.

Ernest Hemingway (1899) and Robin Williams (1951) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Cretin-Derham Hall High School, State University of New York at Purchase and South High School
Working from
1997
Wikipedia editions
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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. 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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Josh

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Josh

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Josh Hartnett

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saint Paul on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Josh’s birth-night reference starEdasichwarm orange · DracoEdasich, in Draco. A warm orange star, 75.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Edasich →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 18.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Saint Paul that night

Computed for 44.94°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Saint Paul was Edasich, in Draco, 75.5° up.

Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Saint Paul sits at 44.9°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −45.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Saint Paul on any night.

Sun 2° below the horizon, Moon down and 94% lit at waning gibbous.

How unusual Josh's chart is

Chart pattern score

47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

1 unaspected planet · A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree

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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Josh Hartnett in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Feeds 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.

What Cancer means →

Earth Horse

Can't stand still. Won't.

Josh Hartnett was born on July 21, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Josh Hartnett's birth date, July 21, 1978, 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 13° to 28° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.3° orbVenus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.8° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 4° orbMoon faces off with Mercury · Opposition, 4.4° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 5° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 5.8° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 6.2° orbSun in Cancer · 28°34′☉28°Moon in Aquarius · 21°03′☽21°Mercury in Leo · 25°28′☿25°Venus in Virgo · 10°53′♀10°Mars in Virgo · 21°39′♂21°Jupiter in Cancer · 20°21′♃20°Saturn in Leo · 29°27′♄29°Uranus in Scorpio · 12°19′♅12°Neptune in Sagittarius · 15°54′ · retrograde♆℞15°Pluto in Libra · 14°06′♇14°

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

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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

  • 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

  • stableVenussquareNeptune4.5° to 5.6° orb

  • stableMarssquareNeptune5.5° to 6.1° orb

  • stableJupitersquarePluto6.1° to 6.3° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 9°32′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 14°16′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 25°05′ (moves 0.92° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 20°60′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 20°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Josh’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury3 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♀ Venus3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Josh’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.9°
  • Saturn quintile Uranus 0.9°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°

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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

Computed from July 21, 1978. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Strategist

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Josh’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q303957 (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 Lindsey8417, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Josh Hartnett at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 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.
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 is Josh Hartnett's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Josh Hartnett's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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