Joy Bale Boone
Joy Bale Boone (born October 29, 1912, Chicago, United States; died 2002), was an American poet laureate of Kentucky. Boone served as poet laureate.
Joy Bale Boone’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Joy
Joy Bale Boone’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Lightkeeper
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Joy in the U.S.?
#419
US rank in 2025
~143,324
Americans share it since 1883
1957
its peak year
In 1912, 68 American girls and 10 boys were registered Joy — 594th among girls and 1,684th among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
22
Expression · building at scale
2
Soul Urge · closeness
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on J (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 6: movement against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Joy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1912, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Joy apart
On Wikipedia the categories read University of Kentucky people, Civil rights activists from Kentucky and Movements for civil rights.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938) and Winona Ryder (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 3
What the chart says
Joy, according to the stars
Core essence
Joy does not do surface. The core of Joy is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Joy is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Joy processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Joy needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Joy wants to be loved
Joy wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Joy and watch them fall for you again.
How Joy creates
How Joy makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Joy creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Joy 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Joy is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Joy 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 Joy's birth date. Working below.
Where Joy sits
Six lines
Joy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Joy Bale Boone
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Alpheratz of Andromeda, within 14.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Chicago sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −48.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Chicago on any night.
Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon up and 82% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
- Lived in
- Elizabethtown
Wikidata records Elizabethtown as Joy Bale Boone's home, against Chicago as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Glasgow, Barren County in 2002.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joy Bale Boone: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Joy's chart is
Chart pattern score
36 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Scorpio · 2 planets 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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunTrusts slowly. Forgets nothing.
Joy Bale Boone's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 29, 1912, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Water Rat
Water RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
Joy Bale Boone was born on October 29, 1912, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
Joy Bale Boone's birth date, October 29, 1912, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Joy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joy Bale Boone's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joy Bale Boone combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Lightkeeper.
Joy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Gemini 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
stableSunconjunctionMars1.8° to 2.1° orb
Joy’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableSaturntrineUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
Joy’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.0° to 4.3° orb
Joy’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.7° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.8° to 5.3° orb
stableSuntrinePluto5.5° to 6.5° orb
stableSunsquareUranus5.8° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 1.4° to 15.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Joy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°35′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 16°14′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 2°39′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 11°58′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 16°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros trine Saturn 0.1°
- Chiron square Venus 0.4°
- Chiron trine Sun 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.3°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 3.0°
Joy’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Joy’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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-sextile Venus 0.2°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
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Also born on October 29
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf1938
- Winona Ryder1971
- Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah1952
- Ma Huateng1971
- Tracee Ellis Ross1972
- Joe Amabile1986
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- Anthony GordonEnglish association football player (born 2001)
- Dominik KotarskiCroatian association football player
- Leonardo BalerdiArgentine footballer (born 1999)
Other Scorpio Rat charts
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- Eva MarcilleAmerican actress, TV host and fashion model (born 1984)
- Rebecca RomijnAmerican actress and model (born 1972)
- Brad PaisleyAmerican country musician (born 1972)
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Famous people with Life Path 7
- Pierre GaslyFrench racing driver
- Nico HülkenbergFormula One racing driver
- Charles LeclercMonegasque racing driver
From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
Joy’s cards
Computed from October 29, 1912. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6297031 (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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Quick answers about Joy Bale Boone’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Joy Bale Boone?
- Joy Bale Boone was a Scorpio: born October 29, 1912, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Joy Bale Boone's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 29, 1912 birth.
- What was Joy Bale Boone's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Joy Bale Boone's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Joy Bale Boone's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Joy Bale Boone's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
