Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo (born May 9, 1951, Tulsa, United States), aged 75, is an American Poet Laureate. Harjo is best known for An American sunrise : poems. Harjo's honours include National Women's Hall of Fame, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and American Book Awards.
Joy Harjo’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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Joy Harjo’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
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 is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Joy is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Joy wants to be loved
Joy wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Joy like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Joy creates
How Joy makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Joy creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Joy is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Joy is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Joy is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Joy's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Joy sits
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Joy’s dot is placed from the chart. Yours is wherever 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 may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tulsa on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Joy Harjo in 15 seconds
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
Joy Harjo's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 9, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitThree steps ahead, no fuss.
Joy Harjo was born on May 9, 1951, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
Joy Harjo's birth date, May 9, 1951, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in Joy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joy Harjo's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Joy Harjo combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Joy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Joy Harjo, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Gemini or Cancer 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.
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.0° to 5.4° orb
Joy’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.0° to 0.6° orb
Joy’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.1° orb
Joy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquarePluto0.3° to 1.3° orb
Joy’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb
Joy’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquareUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
Joy’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMars3.1° to 3.3° orb
Joy’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMarssquarePluto3.7° to 4.4° orb
Joy’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineSaturn4.0° to 4.8° orb
Joy’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenussquareJupiter5.0° to 5.9° orb
Joy’s affections grind against their growth.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.0° to 5.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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 ℞Capricorn 2°14′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Joy is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.
⚳ CeresPisces 6°60′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Joy is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosPisces 11°28′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Joy is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaPisces 10°52′ (moves 0.27° 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 LilithGemini 23°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Joy that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.3°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.0°
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. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Joy is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Joy Harjo, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Joy’s cards
Every card is computed from May 9, 1951, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Joy Harjo, 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 Q292180, 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.
Portrait by Rosiestep, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joy Harjo at Wikipedia, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Joy Harjo.
Quick answers about Joy Harjo’s chart
- How old is Joy Harjo?
- Joy Harjo is 75 years old, born May 9, 1951 in Tulsa, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joy Harjo?
- Joy Harjo is a Taurus: born May 9, 1951, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Rabbit.
- What is Joy Harjo's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 9, 1951 birth.
- What time was Joy Harjo 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 is Joy Harjo's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 9, 1951 birth date.
- What is Joy Harjo's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 9, 1951 birth date.
- Where is Joy Harjo's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joy Harjo's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
