Joshua Logan
Joshua Logan (born October 5, 1908, Texarkana, United States; died 1988), was an American stage and film director and writer. Logan's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Tony Award for Best Musical.
Joshua Logan’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Joshua
Joshua Logan’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
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) × cardinal 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 460th in 1908, the year of this birth, with 29 American boys 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
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
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1908, 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
Joshua Logan took the Tony Award for Best Play in 1948, at 40.
Culver Academies and Princeton University shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1932, at 24.
The grave is at St. Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard.
On the family side, Joshua Logan was married Barbara O'Neil and Nedda Harrigan.
Wikipedia's editors put Joshua Logan under Film directors from Louisiana, Neurological disease deaths in New York (state) and Male actors from Shreveport, Louisiana.
Kate Winslet (1975) and Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Culver Academies and Princeton University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1950), Tony Award for Best Musical (1950) and Tony Award for Best Play (1948)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Academy Award for Best Director
- Working from
- 1932
- Buried at
- St. Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 32
What the chart says
Joshua, according to the stars
Core essence
Joshua makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Joshua is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Joshua 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 Joshua 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 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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Joshua creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Joshua 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 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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Logan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Texarkana 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 Texarkana that night
Computed for 33.44°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Aljanah stood nearest the zenith over Texarkana at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.8° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 33.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Texarkana at all: they sit past the −56.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon up and 81% lit at waxing gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Texarkana, United States
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 1988.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joshua Logan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Joshua's chart is
Chart pattern score
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Yod onto Saturn · T-square onto Sun
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Joshua Logan's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 5, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Joshua Logan was born on October 5, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
Joshua Logan's birth date, October 5, 1908, 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 Logan's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Joshua Logan combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Joshua’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsquareUranus0.4° to 1.4° orb
Joshua’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableVenussextilePluto0.9° to 2.0° orb
Joshua’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquarePluto1.0° to 1.6° orb
Joshua’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.3° to 3.1° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune4.0° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn5.2° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter7.1° to 8.0° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.6° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.2° to 15.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Joshua’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 18°37′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 13°21′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 28°52′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 1°39′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 0°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Eros square Venus 1.6°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.8°
Joshua’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Joshua’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Uranus, Neptune, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Uranus · Sun, Saturn, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Saturn · Mercury, Jupiter, SaturnTwo 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.1°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.2°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.6°
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Joshua’s cards
Computed from October 5, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joshua’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q505141 (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 Princeton University Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joshua Logan 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 Joshua Logan.
Quick answers about Joshua Logan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joshua Logan?
- Joshua Logan was a Libra: born October 5, 1908, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Joshua Logan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 5, 1908 birth.
- What was Joshua Logan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joshua Logan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joshua Logan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joshua Logan's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
