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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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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
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 · 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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, 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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
James Brolin was born on July 18, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
James Brolin's birth date, July 18, 1940, 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 Brolin's date-only chart is Sun sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Brolin combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Brolin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Capricorn 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.
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
James’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.1° orb
James’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsextileNeptune2.3° to 3.2° orb
James’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.4° to 3.9° orb
James’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableVenussquareNeptune3.5° orb
James’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.7° to 6.3° orb
James’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionPluto5.8° to 6.7° orb
James’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.2° to 7.8° orb
James’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ ChironCancer 22°58′ (moves 0.11° 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.
⚳ CeresVirgo 27°12′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has James caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 15°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has James attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaAries 4°57′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has James feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 4°09′ (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.
- 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°
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. ☉ Sun7 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon4 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: James is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Brolin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
James’s family here
2 relatives of James Brolin also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
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James’s cards
Every card is computed from July 18, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for James Brolin, 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 Q315051, 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.
Portrait by lifescript, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Brolin 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
- 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 time was James Brolin 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 is James Brolin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the July 18, 1940 birth date.
- What is James Brolin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 18, 1940 birth date.
- 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.
