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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Rat, with 
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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 1880
1957
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Joy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Joy sits
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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.
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Joy Bale Boone in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Joy Bale Boone, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
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
Joy’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.8° to 5.3° orb
Joy’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableSuntrinePluto5.5° to 6.5° orb
Joy’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareUranus5.8° to 6.8° orb
Joy’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°35′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Joy absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresLibra 16°14′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Joy is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosAquarius 2°39′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Joy is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 11°58′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Joy needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 16°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Joy at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Joy’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Joy is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Joy’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.2°
- Uranus quincunx Pluto 0.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joy Bale Boone, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Joy’s cards
Every card is computed from October 29, 1912, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Joy Bale Boone, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Joy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6297031, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Joy Bale Boone at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Rat.
- 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 time was Joy Bale Boone born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Joy Bale Boone's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the October 29, 1912 birth date.
- What was Joy Bale Boone's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 29, 1912 birth date.
- 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.
