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Hamilton E. James

Hamilton E. James (born February 3, 1951, Wyandotte, United States), aged 75, is an American businessperson. Founder and Chairman of Jefferson River Capital LLC. Former president and chief operating officer of The Blackstone Group.

Hamilton E. James’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Hamilton E. James’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Guardian

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Hamilton in the U.S.?

#3152

US rank in 2025

~6,517

Americans share it since 1880

2016

its peak year

The SSA recorded 35 American boys named Hamilton in 1951: 1,250th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Hamilton’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on H (8) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Hamilton’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 1 · 4

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1950, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Hamilton apart

Hamilton E. James was taught at Choate Rosemary Hall and Harvard Business School.

Isla Fisher (1976) and Daddy Yankee (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Choate Rosemary Hall, Harvard Business School and Harvard College
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Hamilton, according to the stars

Core essence

Hamilton is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Hamilton is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Hamilton is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Hamilton needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Hamilton wants to be loved

Hamilton wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Hamilton, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Hamilton creates

How Hamilton makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Hamilton builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Hamilton is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Hamilton 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Hamilton slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Hamilton's birth date. Working below.

Where Hamilton sits

Six lines

Hamilton’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Hamilton

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Hamilton

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Hamilton

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Hamilton

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Hamilton

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Hamilton

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Wyandotte 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 Wyandotte that night

Computed for 42.21°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Capella stood nearest the zenith over Wyandotte at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.0° above the horizon in Auriga.

Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Wyandotte sits at 42.2°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −47.8° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 7% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 35° below the horizon.

How unusual Hamilton's chart is

Chart pattern score

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Saturn

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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Hamilton E. James at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

Hamilton E. James's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 3, 1951, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Hamilton E. James was born on February 3, 1951, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 3

Talks it, jokes it, lives it.

Hamilton E. James's birth date, February 3, 1951, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Hamilton’s chart

Hamilton’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.7° orbMoon opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.1° orbMars fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.2° orbVenus flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.5° orbMoon faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.6° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.1° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Aquarius · 14°04′☉14°Moon in Capricorn · 8°38′☽8°Mercury in Capricorn · 21°34′☿21°Venus in Pisces · 3°35′♀3°Mars in Pisces · 9°34′♂9°Jupiter in Pisces · 11°46′♃11°Saturn in Libra · 1°55′ · retrograde♄℞1°Uranus in Cancer · 6°03′ · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Libra · 19°29′ · retrograde♆℞19°Pluto in Leo · 18°46′ · retrograde♇℞18°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.7° orb

    Hamilton’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune1.4° to 2.8° orb

    Hamilton’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableVenustrineUranus1.8° to 3.1° orb

    Hamilton’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter1.9° to 2.5° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus3.1° to 3.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareUranus4.1° orb

  • stableSunoppositionPluto4.2° to 5.2° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune4.9° to 5.9° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus5.6° to 5.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars5.8° to 6.2° orb

  • possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.0° to 11.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 14.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Hamilton’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 29°32′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 3°48′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 19°14′ (moves 0.60° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 7°46′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 13°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros square Neptune 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.5°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 1.9°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 2.3°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.4°

Hamilton’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune6 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Hamilton’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.

  • Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
  • Venus quincunx Saturn 1.7°
  • Saturn semi-square Pluto 1.9°

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Hamilton’s cards

Computed from February 3, 1951. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Hamilton’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16149081 (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.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Hamilton E. James.

Quick answers about Hamilton E. James’s chart

How old is Hamilton E. James?
Hamilton E. James is 75 years old, born February 3, 1951 in Wyandotte, United States.
What zodiac sign is Hamilton E. James?
Hamilton E. James is an Aquarius: born February 3, 1951, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Hamilton E. James's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 3, 1951 birth.
What is Hamilton E. James's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Hamilton E. James's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Hamilton E. James's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Hamilton E. James's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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