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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rabbit, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Joy
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 1883
1957
its peak year
The SSA recorded 2,012 American girls and 15 boys named Joy in 1951: 155th among girls and 2,011th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on J (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
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 record
What sets Joy apart
Shaboozey (1995) and Willyrex (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Joy sits
Six lines
Joy’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 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.
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 Harjo
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tulsa 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 Tulsa that night
Computed for 36.13°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Tulsa at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.6° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Tulsa sits at 36.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −53.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Tulsa on any night.
Sun 8° below the horizon, Moon up and 14% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual Joy's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A leaning bowl
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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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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 4° Gemini or Cancer 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
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
stableVenussquareSaturn2.0° to 3.2° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMars3.1° to 3.3° orb
stableMarssquarePluto3.7° to 4.4° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn4.0° to 4.8° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.0° to 5.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Capricorn 2°14′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 6°60′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 11°28′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 10°52′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 23°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.3°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Saturn 2.0°
Joy’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Joy’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.5°
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Born in United States
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More charts like Joy’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Jonah LomuNew Zealand rugby union player
- Balendra ShahNepalese rapper and politician; Prime Minister of Nepal since 2026
- Candace OwensAmerican political commentator
Born in Rabbit years
- Philip AnschutzAmerican billionaire businessman
- Dieter SchwarzGerman entrepreneur
- Li ShufuChinese billionaire entrepreneur (born 1963)
Also born on May 9
- Shaboozey1995
- Willyrex1993
- Dana Perino1972
- Albert Finney1936
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
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- Enrique K. RazonFilipino billionaire
Other Taurus Rabbit charts
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Other Steadfast Guardians
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- Dave BrubeckAmerican jazz pianist and composer
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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
Computed from May 9, 1951. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q292180 (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 Rosiestep, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Joy Harjo at Wikipedia, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Joy Harjo's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joy Harjo's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
