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James Black

James Black (born June 14, 1924, Uddingston, United Kingdom; died 2010), was a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist. Black served as chancellor. Black's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Order of Merit and Knight Bachelor.

James Black’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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James Black’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Seeker

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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

Of the names registered in 1924, James came 4th among boys and 425th among girls, carried by 52,942 American boys and 274 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What James’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

7

Personality · composed, private

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

9 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern

Rose pink · Lilac · Forest

The record

What sets James apart

Che Guevara (1928) and Donald J. Trump (1946) 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 two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. James needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, James feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What James needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How James wants to be loved

James 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. James gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How James creates

How James makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. James builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: James is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. James goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
James

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
James

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
James

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

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 Uddingston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

James’s birth-night reference starMizarwhite · Ursa MajorMizar, in Ursa Major. A white star, 89° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Mizar →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 23.2° 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 Uddingston that night

Computed for 55.82°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Uddingston at 9 p.m. that evening: Mizar of Ursa Major, within 1.0° of the exact zenith.

Of the 91 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

At 55.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Uddingston at all: they sit past the −34.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 92% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat -6° below the horizon.

How unusual James's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

Grand trine · No Earth planets · Venus retrograde

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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Gemini Sun

Never finishes a book. Reads everything.

James Black's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 14, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Wood Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

James Black was born on June 14, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

James Black's birth date, June 14, 1924, 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 6° to 21° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.4° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.6° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 2.7° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.7° orbSun flows with Mars · Trine, 3.1° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 3.1° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 4° orbJupiter flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.2° orbSun in Gemini · 23°05′☉23°Moon in Scorpio · 14°08′☽14°Mercury in Gemini · 2°03′☿2°Venus in Cancer · 17°12′ · retrograde♀℞17°Mars in Aquarius · 26°13′♂26°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 13°58′ · retrograde♃℞13°Saturn in Libra · 25°47′ · retrograde♄℞25°Uranus in Pisces · 21°27′♅21°Neptune in Leo · 18°10′♆18°Pluto in Cancer · 11°24′♇11°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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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

  • stableMarstrineSaturn0.2° to 0.6° orb

    James’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableSunsquareUranus1.2° to 2.1° orb

    James’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn2.2° to 3.2° orb

    James’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSuntrineMars2.9° to 3.4° orb

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune4.1° to 4.3° orb

  • stableVenustrineUranus4.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars5.3° to 6.4° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.7° to 5.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.0° to 10.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 14.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.

James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 23°51′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresAries 24°24′ (moves 0.32° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 23°43′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaTaurus 5°58′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 9°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Sun 0.6°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 0.8°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.3°
  • Ceres opposition Saturn 1.4°
  • Ceres sextile Mars 1.8°
  • Chiron opposition Saturn 1.9°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 2.1°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 2.4°
  • Eros trine Mars 2.5°

James’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus3 pts

    disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects

Configurations in James’s chart

  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Mars, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mercury semi-square Venus 0.1°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 0.2°
  • Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
  • Mercury biquintile Saturn 0.3°
  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
  • Mercury quintile Uranus 1.4°

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James’s cards

Computed from June 14, 1924. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Seeker

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

9 · Healer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

子

Rat

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110974 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Black.

Quick answers about James Black’s chart

What zodiac sign was James Black?
James Black was a Gemini: born June 14, 1924, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What was James Black's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 14, 1924 birth.
What was James Black's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was James Black's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was James Black's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was James Black's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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