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James Batcheller Sumner

James Batcheller Sumner (born November 19, 1887, Canton, United States; died 1955), was an American chemist. Sumner's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Guggenheim Fellowship and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

James Batcheller Sumner’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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James Batcheller Sumner’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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

9 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Gold · Crimson · Scarlet

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What the chart says

James, according to the stars

Core essence

James does not do surface. The core of James is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from James is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How James wants to be loved

James wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. James gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How James creates

How James makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. James creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.

Instinct

Instinct: James is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. James is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means James channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where James sits

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Intimate circleWide network
James

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
James

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

PrivateExpressive
James

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
James

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
James

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
James

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to James Batcheller Sumner

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Canton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

James’s birth-night reference starMirachdeep red · AndromedaMirach, in Andromeda. A deep red star, 82.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mirach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 48.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

James Batcheller Sumner at a glance

Scorpio Sun

Reads the room. Says nothing.

James Batcheller Sumner's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 19, 1887, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.

Fire Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

James Batcheller Sumner was born on November 19, 1887, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.

Life Path 9

Endings come naturally.

James Batcheller Sumner's birth date, November 19, 1887, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in James’s chart

James’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for James Batcheller Sumner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.6° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.6° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 2° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.3° orbMoon opens doors for Mercury · Sextile, 2.4° orbSaturn opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.7° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 3.9° orbSun in Scorpio · 27°05′☉27°Moon in Capricorn · 25°04′☽25°Mercury in Scorpio · 22°37′ · retrograde☿℞22°Venus in Libra · 10°56′♀10°Mars in Virgo · 20°59′♂20°Jupiter in Scorpio · 18°43′♃18°Saturn in Leo · 6°32′ · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Libra · 15°30′♅15°Neptune in Taurus · 28°43′ · retrograde♆℞28°Pluto in Gemini · 4°09′ · retrograde♇℞4°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableMercurysextileMars0.7° to 2.5° orb

    James’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableSunoppositionNeptune1.1° to 2.1° orb

    James’s core identity pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter2.1° to 2.4° orb

    James’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSaturnsextilePluto2.4° orb

    James’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.2° to 4.6° orb

    James’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 5.6° orb

    James’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn4.0° to 4.9° orb

    James’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus4.1° to 5.0° orb

    James’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

    James’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune5.5° to 6.7° orb

    James’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • stableSunoppositionPluto6.6° to 7.6° orb

    James’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 1°13′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. James is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 10°39′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: James looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 7°48′ (moves 0.57° over the day)

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

    Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. James is read as drawn to people who have built something.

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 21°30′ (moves 0.29° 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 LilithAries 21°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has James carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.

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.

  • Ceres opposition Venus 0.3°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 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. 1. ♇ Pluto9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury6 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: James is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree 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.

  • Mars semi-square Saturn 0.5°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
  • Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Batcheller Sumner, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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James’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Moon

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AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Scorpio

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Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for James Batcheller Sumner, 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 Q106756, 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.

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The same James Batcheller Sumner 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 James Batcheller Sumner’s chart

What zodiac sign was James Batcheller Sumner?
James Batcheller Sumner was a Scorpio: born November 19, 1887, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Pig.
What was James Batcheller Sumner's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 19, 1887 birth.
What time was James Batcheller Sumner 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 Batcheller Sumner's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the November 19, 1887 birth date.
What was James Batcheller Sumner's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 19, 1887 birth date.
Where was James Batcheller Sumner's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was James Batcheller Sumner's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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