James Brown
James Brown (born May 3, 1933, Augusta, United States; died 2006), was an American musician. Best-known releases include Live at the Apollo. Brown's honours include Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Kennedy Center Honors.
James Brown’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Water Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rooster, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with James
James Brown’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, 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 51,112 American boys and 299 girls named James in 1933: 2nd among boys and 368th 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
6 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Blush · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1933, 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 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame came in 1986, when James Brown was 53.
James Brown was 21 when the work began in 1954.
The record gives heart failure as the cause, and Beech Island as the resting place.
James Brown was married Deidre Jenkins and Adrienne Rodriguez and raised one child.
Wikipedia files James Brown under American expatriates in Zambia, African-American composers and A&M Records artists.
Steven Weinberg shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Instruments
- organ, guitar, drum kit and voice
- Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986) and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1992)
- Working from
- 1954
- Cause of death
- heart failure
- Buried at
- Beech Island
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 100
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of James is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, James needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What James needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once James is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. James creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: James is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. James is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
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.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to James Brown
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Augusta on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Augusta that night
Computed for 33.47°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Augusta was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 81.6° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Augusta sits at 33.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −56.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 9° below the horizon, Moon up and 61% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Augusta, United States
The death is recorded at Atlanta, Fulton County in 2006.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Brown: 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
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Venus · A leaning bowl
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.
Score your own chart →James Brown at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
James Brown's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 3, 1933, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Rooster
Water RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
James Brown was born on May 3, 1933, which falls in a Water Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
James Brown's birth date, May 3, 1933, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Brown's date-only chart is Venus square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- James Brown combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 27° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
James’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.1° to 1.1° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMercurysquarePluto1.4° to 2.9° orb
James’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineJupiter1.9° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.6° to 4.1° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn2.7° to 3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.0° to 3.3° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune3.9° to 4.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.5° to 5.9° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.8° to 5.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune5.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 27°30′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 28°41′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 17°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Scorpio 26°31′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Mercury 1.6°
- Eros trine Venus 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.6°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
4 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.
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 0.8°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 1.1°
Born the same day as James
Steven Weinberg was born on May 3, 1933 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Augusta, at 33.5°N, nothing below −56.5° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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More charts like James’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Pierre CurieFrench physicist
- Guglielmo MarconiItalian inventor and radio pioneer
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Born in Rooster years
- Mykelti WilliamsonAmerican actor and director
- Nick MoranBritish actor, writer, producer and director
- James MasonBritish actor
Also born on May 3
- Golda Meir1898
- Steven Weinberg1933
- Christina Hendricks1975
- Rachel Zegler2001
- Genevieve Nnaji1979
- Mo Ibrahim1946
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Dolph LundgrenSwedish actor and martial artist
- Zooey DeschanelAmerican actress and singer
- Alexandra DaddarioAmerican actress
Other Taurus Rooster charts
- Mohamed DiawaraFrench basketball player (born 2005)
- Alexandre SarrFrench basketball player (born 2005)
- Whitney LeavittAmerican social media personality
- Cate BlanchettAustralian actor and producer
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Breckin MeyerAmerican actor
- Mel OwensAmerican football player
- Nicollette SheridanEnglish-born American actress
- Lara TrumpAmerican television producer and campaign adviser (born 1982)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Dag HammarskjöldSwedish diplomat, economist, and author
- Evo MoralesPresident of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019
- Wisława SzymborskaPolish poet, Nobel Prize winner
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
James’s cards
Computed from May 3, 1933. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5950 (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.
Portrait by Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Brown at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube 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 Brown.
Quick answers about James Brown’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Brown?
- James Brown was a Taurus: born May 3, 1933, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was James Brown's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 3, 1933 birth.
- How tall was James Brown?
- James Brown was 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was James Brown's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Brown's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Brown's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Brown's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
