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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where James sits
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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.
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James Agee in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for James Agee, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Gemini 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.
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
James’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune2.2° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb
James’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.8° to 3.4° orb
James’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus2.8° to 3.8° orb
James’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunsextileJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb
James’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableVenussquareSaturn4.6° to 5.7° orb
James’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquarePluto5.8° to 6.2° orb
James’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter6.5° to 6.7° orb
James’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 23°33′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has James making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresAquarius 0°11′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. James is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosVirgo 24°45′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. James is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 9°49′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. James is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°25′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of James that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- 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°
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°).
James’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. ♃ 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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: James is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 James’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.
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 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.
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.1°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.2°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Agee, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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James’s cards
Every card is computed from November 27, 1909, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for James Agee, 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
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q352963, 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 James Agee at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster.
- 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 time was James Agee 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 James Agee's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the November 27, 1909 birth date.
- What was James Agee's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 27, 1909 birth date.
- 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.
