The name "Joshua" is highly sensitive, promotes cooperation and diplomacy, and makes everyone feel safe and appreciated. Flexible and passionate, "Joshua" promotes adaptability and survival against all odds. The name indicates understanding, compassion, and intimacy, and tends to draw support with tact and subtle persuasion rather than force and confrontation. Having an intuitive ability to avoid land mines and pitfalls, and a strong sense of balance, this name promotes a careful and competent decision-making process. Most positive characteristics: Cooperation, tact, flexibility, tolerance, insight into the human psyche. The vowels in "Joshua" enhance its sense of independence, strength, drive and determination. It certainly adds horsepower to the Dominant Impression. The Vowel Vibration makes the name feel more masculine and aggressive. It also conveys intelligence, innovation, inventiveness, leadership, courage, adventurism, and a taste for the unconventional. The Base Vibration in "Joshua" increases a sense of dynamic energy but in the form of a controlled and carefully guided force. There is a feeling of purpose and efficiency. There is courage and effort in the face of difficulties. There is a certain dignity, a correctness that radiates from "Joshua". The base vibrations also reflect a pioneering spirit, creativity, and originality. Music - Youtube - Joshua - written by Dolly Parton Another famous Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Painter 1723-1792 Sir Joshua Reynolds was the most successful portrait painter of his era and became a founder and first president of the Royal Academy. He was born in Plympton St Maurice, just outside Plymouth, on 16th July 1723, the son of a clergyman. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/discovering/famous/sirjoshuareynolds.shtml