Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen (born September 6, 1980, Somers Point, United States), aged 46, is an American writer. Cohen is best known for The Netanyahus. Cohen's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Joshua Cohen’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Joshua
Joshua Cohen’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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
Joshua ranked 7th among boys and 748th among girls in 1980, the year of this birth, with 36,052 American boys and 222 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joshua’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on J (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
The record
What sets Joshua apart
Idris Elba (1972) and Max George (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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 needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Joshua needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Joshua wants to be loved
Joshua wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Joshua gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Joshua is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Joshua 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 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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Cohen
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Somers Point 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 Somers Point that night
Computed for 39.32°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Somers Point was Vega, in Lyra, 84.1° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Somers Point on any night.
The Moon, 5% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 19° below the horizon.
How unusual Joshua's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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.
Score your own chart →Joshua Cohen at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Joshua Cohen's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 6, 1980, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyWit is the tool.
Joshua Cohen was born on September 6, 1980, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
Joshua Cohen's birth date, September 6, 1980, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Joshua’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joshua Cohen's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joshua Cohen combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Joshua’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° Leo 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
stableVenussextileSaturn0.2° to 1.2° orb
Joshua’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
Joshua’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersquareNeptune0.5° to 0.7° orb
Joshua’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileUranus1.2° to 2.9° orb
stableJupitersextileUranus2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn3.2° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.4° to 5.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter4.1° to 5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.5° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableVenussquareMars6.5° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.4° to 12.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Joshua’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 18°10′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 11°02′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 15°04′ (moves 0.78° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 4°56′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.9°
Joshua’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in Joshua’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, SaturnThree 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 Venus 0.3°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.6°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 1.0°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.2°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
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Also born on September 6
- Idris Elba1972
- Max George1988
- Pippa Middleton1983
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- Asher Angel2002
- Jane Addams1860
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Sebastián CáceresUruguayan association football player
- Bruno GuimarãesBrazilian footballer (born 1997)
- Mats WiefferDutch association football player (born 1999)
Other Virgo Monkey charts
- David PopoviciRomanian swimmer
- Iam TongiAmerican singer
- Fred MacMurrayAmerican actor
- Anthony HealdAmerican actor
Other Tidal Healers
- Enrico BombieriItalian mathematician (1940-)
- Harald zur HausenGerman virologist and professor emeritus
- Gerhard HerzbergGerman-Canadian physicist and physical chemist
- Niels Ryberg FinsenFaroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Joshua’s cards
Computed from September 6, 1980. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Tidal HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joshua’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6289738 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joshua Cohen at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joshua Cohen.
Quick answers about Joshua Cohen’s chart
- How old is Joshua Cohen?
- Joshua Cohen is 46 years old, born September 6, 1980 in Somers Point, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joshua Cohen?
- Joshua Cohen is a Virgo: born September 6, 1980, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Joshua Cohen's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 6, 1980 birth.
- What is Joshua Cohen's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joshua Cohen's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Joshua Cohen's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joshua Cohen's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
