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James Brolin

James Brolin (born July 18, 1940, Los Angeles, United States), aged 86, is an American actor (born 1940). Brolin's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

James Brolin’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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James Brolin’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Diplomat

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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 62,481 American boys and 259 girls named James in 1940: 1st among boys and 424th 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.

1

Expression · starting things

3

Soul Urge · being heard

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

3 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia

Sky blue · Pearl · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets James apart

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series came in 1970, when James Brolin was 30.

James Brolin was taught at University High School.

James Brolin was 21 when the work began in 1961.

On the family side, James Brolin was born to Helen Sue Bruderlin, married Jane Cameron Agee and Jan Smithers and raised one child.

Wikipedia files James Brolin under University High School (Los Angeles) alumni, People from Westwood, Los Angeles and Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners.

Nelson Mandela (1918) and Priyanka Chopra (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University High School
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Television Film (1973) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (1970)
Working from
1961
Sport
auto racing
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
40

What the chart says

James, according to the stars

Core essence

James feels the room before entering it. The core of James is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for James, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, James is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What James needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How James wants to be loved

James wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to James like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How James creates

How James makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. James creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: James is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means James fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.

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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
James

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

PrivateExpressive
James

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
James

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

PracticalVisionary
James

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

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 Brolin

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

James’s birth-night reference starKornephorosyellow · HerculesKornephoros, in Hercules. A yellow star, 76.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Kornephoros →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 29.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

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

The sky over Los Angeles that night

Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Kornephoros stood nearest the zenith over Los Angeles at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.2° above the horizon in Hercules.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Los Angeles sits at 34.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Los Angeles at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon up and 100% lit at full moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Los Angeles, United States
Lives in
Malibu

Wikidata records Malibu as James Brolin's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Brolin: 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

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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 Brolin in 15 seconds

Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

James Brolin's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Cancer means →

Metal Dragon

Ambition with charisma attached.

James Brolin was born on July 18, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

James Brolin's birth date, July 18, 1940, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 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 12° to 25° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.7° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.8° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1.3° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.1° orbMars grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.4° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2.7° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.5° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.7° orbSun in Cancer · 26°00′☉26°Moon in Capricorn · 19°03′☽19°Mercury in Leo · 1°31′ · retrograde☿℞1°Venus in Gemini · 26°47′♀26°Mars in Leo · 9°47′♂9°Jupiter in Taurus · 12°10′♃12°Saturn in Taurus · 13°27′♄13°Uranus in Taurus · 25°21′♅25°Neptune in Virgo · 23°16′♆23°Pluto in Leo · 2°17′♇2°

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

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.2° to 1.1° orb

    James’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.4° to 1.1° orb

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

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.2° to 1.3° orb

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

  • stableMarssquareJupiter2.1° to 2.6° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune2.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune2.3° to 3.2° orb

  • stableMarssquareSaturn3.4° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareNeptune3.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury4.7° to 6.3° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto5.8° to 6.7° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.2° to 7.8° orb

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 22°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 27°12′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 15°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 4°57′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 4°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Ceres square Venus 0.4°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.2°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.9°
  • Chiron sextile Uranus 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.6°
  • Hygiea trine Pluto 2.7°

James’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon4 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in James’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.4°
  • Sun quintile Saturn 0.6°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.8°
  • Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.4°
  • Mars semi-square Neptune 1.5°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 1.7°

James’s family here

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James’s cards

Computed from July 18, 1940. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q315051 (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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The same James Brolin 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 Brolin.

Quick answers about James Brolin’s chart

How old is James Brolin?
James Brolin is 86 years old, born July 18, 1940 in Los Angeles, United States.
What zodiac sign is James Brolin?
James Brolin is a Cancer: born July 18, 1940, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
What is James Brolin's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1940 birth.
What is James Brolin's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is James Brolin's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is James Brolin's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is James Brolin's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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