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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, Chinese zodiac was 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

James ranked 3rd among boys and 518th among girls in 1887, the year of this birth, with 4,767 American boys and 19 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What James’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

8

Expression · direction and scale

7

Soul Urge · understanding

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

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

The record

What sets James apart

James Batcheller Sumner took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937, at 50.

The classrooms behind this chart: Free University of Brussels and Roxbury Latin School.

The grave is at Canton Corner Cemetery.

The family line: born to Elizabeth Rand Kelly and Charles Sumner.

Wikipedia's editors put James Batcheller Sumner under People from Canton, Massachusetts, American amputees and Cornell University faculty.

Indira Gandhi (1917) and Jodie Foster (1962) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Free University of Brussels, Roxbury Latin School and Stockholm University
Awards
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946) and Guggenheim Fellowship (1937)
Nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Buried at
Canton Corner Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
63

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. Working below.

Where James sits

Six lines

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

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

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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 →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Canton that night

Computed for 42.16°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Canton was Mirach, in Andromeda, 82.7° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 42.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

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 was at waxing crescent, 27% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 51° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Canton, United States

The death is recorded at Buffalo, Erie County in 1955.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Batcheller Sumner: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual James's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Scorpio · A bowl chart

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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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.

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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.

What the Pig means →

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.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in James’s chart

James’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 1° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

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.

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Lines drawn
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

  • 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

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.2° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 5.6° orb

  • stableVenussextileSaturn4.0° to 4.9° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus4.1° to 5.0° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto5.4° to 5.5° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune5.5° to 6.7° orb

  • stableSunoppositionPluto6.6° to 7.6° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 21°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres opposition Venus 0.3°
  • Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.5°
  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 1.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.8°

James’s dominant planets

  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

Configurations in James’s chart

  • 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

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

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James’s cards

Computed from November 19, 1887. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

9 · Healer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q106756 (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.

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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.
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 was James Batcheller Sumner's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was James Batcheller Sumner's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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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