James Agee
James Agee (born November 27, 1909, Knoxville, United States; died 1955), was an American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. Agee is best remembered for A Death in the Family. Agee's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
James Agee’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with James
James Agee’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Healer
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name James in the U.S.?
#6
US rank in 2025
~5,274,520
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
The SSA recorded 7,595 American boys and 52 girls named James in 1909: 3rd among boys and 525th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Gold · Rose-gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets James apart
Bruce Lee (1940) and Jimi Hendrix (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of James is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, James processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What James needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show James you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. James 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: James is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. James 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means James gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from James's birth date. Working below.
Where James sits
Six lines
James’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 James Agee
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Knoxville 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 Knoxville that night
Computed for 35.96°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Knoxville at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirach of Andromeda, within 3.2° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.
Knoxville sits at 36.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −54.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Knoxville on any night.
The Moon was at full moon, 99% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 43° down.
How unusual James'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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
James Agee's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 27, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
James Agee was born on November 27, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
James Agee's birth date, November 27, 1909, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Agee's date-only chart is Uranus opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Agee combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Healer.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Gemini depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurytrineMars0.0° to 1.2° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb
James’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.8° to 1.9° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSuntrineMars2.2° to 2.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 3.4° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.8° to 3.8° orb
stableSunsextileJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.6° to 5.7° orb
stableMarssquarePluto5.8° to 6.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter6.5° to 6.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 23°33′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 0°11′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 24°45′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 9°49′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.2°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.5°
- Eros square Pluto 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.1°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.7°
- Eros trine Venus 2.8°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars7 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Venus, Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.9°
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James’s cards
Computed from November 27, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded HealerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q352963 (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.
The same James Agee at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Agee.
Quick answers about James Agee’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Agee?
- James Agee was a Sagittarius: born November 27, 1909, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was James Agee's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 27, 1909 birth.
- What was James Agee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Agee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Agee's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Agee's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
