Joshua Cheptegei
Joshua Cheptegei (born September 12, 1996, Kapchorwa District, Uganda), aged 30, is an Ugandan athletics competitor.
Joshua Cheptegei’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Joshua
Joshua Cheptegei’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Storyteller
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Joshua in the U.S.?
#66
US rank in 2025
~1,253,882
Americans share it since 1880
1989
its peak year
The SSA recorded 29,175 American boys and 75 girls named Joshua in 1996: 5th among boys and 1,923rd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joshua’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on J (1) and closes on A (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Joshua’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, 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 Joshua apart
Wikipedia files Joshua Cheptegei under Olympic athletes for Uganda, Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Uganda and Athletes from Eastern Region, Uganda.
Stanisław Lem (1921) and Paul Walker (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Sport
- athletics
- Citizenship
- Uganda
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 42
What the chart says
Joshua, according to the stars
Core essence
Joshua 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 Joshua is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Joshua is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Joshua needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Joshua wants to be loved
Joshua wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Joshua openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Joshua creates
How Joshua makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Joshua creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: Joshua 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Joshua is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Joshua leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Joshua fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Joshua's birth date. Working below.
Where Joshua sits
Six lines
Joshua’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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 may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Joshua Cheptegei
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kapchorwa District 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 Kapchorwa District that night
Computed for 1.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Kapchorwa District was Altair, in Aquila, 82.4° up.
Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 75 catalog stars above the horizon.
Kapchorwa District sits at 1.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 35° down.
How unusual Joshua's chart is
Chart pattern score
52 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · 3 planets at a critical degree · No Water planets
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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Joshua Cheptegei's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 12, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Rat
Fire RatCharming, and counting the exits.
Joshua Cheptegei was born on September 12, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
Joshua Cheptegei's birth date, September 12, 1996, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Joshua’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joshua Cheptegei's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Earth emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Water.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
- Joshua Cheptegei combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Storyteller.
Joshua’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb
Joshua’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.2° to 1.1° orb
Joshua’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionUranus0.3° to 1.0° orb
Joshua’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableUranussextilePluto0.3° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus0.5° to 1.4° orb
stableMarstrinePluto0.7° to 1.3° orb
stableMercurysextileMars0.9° to 2.3° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.1° to 3.8° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.7° to 4.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus4.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.
Joshua’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLibra 15°53′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 9°55′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 9°45′ (moves 0.67° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 22°58′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 8°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.8°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.2°
Joshua’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn8 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 6 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus8 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; 6 major aspects
Configurations in Joshua’s chart
Kite · Venus, Saturn, Pluto, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Mars, Saturn, Pluto, MercuryA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
- Kite · Mars, Saturn, Pluto, UranusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Sun quintile Pluto 1.2°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 2.4°
More people like Joshua
Other athletics competitors
- Noah Igbinoghene1999
- Letsile Tebogo2003
- David Rudisha1988
- Keely Hodgkinson2002
- Cam Jurgens1999
- Julien Alfred2001
Born in Uganda
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- Whitney PeakUgandan-Canadian actress
- Bobi WineUgandan musician, activist, actor and politician
More charts like Joshua’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Amy WinehouseEnglish singer-songwriter
- Luke WilsonAmerican actor (born 1971)
- Leo WoodallBritish actor (born 1996)
Born in Rat years
- Luís FigoPortuguese football player (born 1972)
- Luis DíazColombian association football player (born 1997)
- RaphinhaBrazilian association football player (born 1996)
Also born on September 12
- Stanisław Lem1921
- Paul Walker1973
- Jesse Owens1913
- RM1994
- Petra Marklund1984
- Kadim Al Sahir1957
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Rita Levi-MontalciniItalian neurologist
- David TrimbleFirst Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002
- Joseph ErlangerAmerican doctor
Other Virgo Rat charts
- Gwyn ThomasWelsh poet
- Bob EggletonAmerican artist
- China MiévilleEnglish writer, critic, and activist (born 1972)
- Vonda N. McIntyreAmerican science fiction writer
Other Tidal Storytellers
- Karel HusaCzech-born American conductor and composer
- Elizabeth StroutAmerican novelist (born 1956)
- James Kirkwood, Jr.American playwright, author and actor
- Serge SchmemannAmerican journalist
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Zamir WhiteAmerican football running back
- Jason PinnockAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Calvin AustinAmerican football player
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Joshua’s cards
Computed from September 12, 1996. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
Wheel of FortuneAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joshua’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q17403005 (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.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joshua Cheptegei.
Quick answers about Joshua Cheptegei’s chart
- How old is Joshua Cheptegei?
- Joshua Cheptegei is 30 years old, born September 12, 1996 in Kapchorwa District, Uganda.
- What zodiac sign is Joshua Cheptegei?
- Joshua Cheptegei is a Virgo: born September 12, 1996, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Joshua Cheptegei's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1996 birth.
- How tall is Joshua Cheptegei?
- Joshua Cheptegei is 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Joshua Cheptegei's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joshua Cheptegei's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Joshua Cheptegei's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joshua Cheptegei's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
