Henry James
Henry James (born May 18, 1879, Boston, United States; died 1947), was an American biographer. James's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Henry James’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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Henry James’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Guardian
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
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Henry’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Henry, according to the stars
Core essence
Henry 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 Henry 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 Henry wants to be loved
Henry wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Henry gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Henry creates
How Henry makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Henry creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Henry 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Henry 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; Henry 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 Henry's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Henry sits
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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 Boston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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Henry James at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Henry James's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 18, 1879, 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.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
Henry James was born on May 18, 1879, which falls in a Earth 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 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Henry James's birth date, May 18, 1879, 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 Henry’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Henry James' date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Air.
- Henry James combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Guardian.
Henry’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Henry James, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Aries or Taurus 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.
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.1° to 7.8° orb
Henry’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableMoontrineUranus0.1° to 6.5° orb
Henry’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.4° to 0.5° orb
Henry’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionPluto0.9° to 1.8° orb
Henry’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.3° to 2.4° orb
Henry’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquareUranus2.3° to 3.3° orb
Henry’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileVenus3.4° to 3.5° orb
Henry’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineJupiter3.7° to 4.8° orb
Henry’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMarssextileNeptune4.2° to 4.9° orb
Henry’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussquarePluto4.2° orb
Henry’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter4.7° to 5.3° orb
Henry’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareSaturn5.9° to 7.0° orb
Henry’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Henry’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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 9°39′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Henry building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresGemini 12°57′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Henry feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAries 7°21′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Henry is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaAries 3°34′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Henry feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Henry is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 0.2°
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Saturn 1.1°
- Ceres square Mars 1.7°
- Eros square Venus 1.9°
- Hygiea square Venus 1.9°
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°).
Henry’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, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Henry 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 Henry’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 Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Neptune, PlutoThree 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-square Saturn 0.4°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.6°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.7°
- Saturn semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Henry James, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Henry’s cards
Every card is computed from May 18, 1879, 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 Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Henry James, 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
Henry’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5723817, 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 Henry James 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 Henry James’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Henry James?
- Henry James was a Taurus: born May 18, 1879, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rabbit.
- What was Henry James's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 18, 1879 birth.
- What time was Henry James 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 Henry James's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the May 18, 1879 birth date.
- What was Henry James's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 18, 1879 birth date.
- Where was Henry James's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Henry James's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
