James Caan
James Caan (born March 26, 1940, The Bronx, United States; died 2022), was an American actor. Caan's honours include star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
James Caan’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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James Caan’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, 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
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
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · 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 leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of James is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
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 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 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 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 7 is the seeker. James is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means James is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
James Caan's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 26, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
James Caan was born on March 26, 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 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
James Caan's birth date, March 26, 1940, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Caan's date-only chart is Saturn square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Caan combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Caan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Scorpio 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.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.0° to 0.1° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.3° to 1.4° orb
James’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
stableMarstrineNeptune1.8° to 2.5° orb
James’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileUranus2.2° to 2.5° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileVenus2.5° to 3.8° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.0° to 4.1° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranustrineNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
James’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrinePluto4.7° to 5.7° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.5° to 5.9° orb
James’s affections and drive act as one.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.2° to 6.8° orb
James’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune6.6° to 6.8° orb
James’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
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 14°01′ (moves 0.01° 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.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 8°24′ (moves 0.16° 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.
♡ ErosCapricorn 0°25′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. James is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaPisces 7°25′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has James needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 21°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. James is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Eros trine Saturn 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 2.4°
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. ♀ Venus9 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: James is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
Stellium in Taurus · Venus, Mars, Saturn, UranusThree 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 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.8°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.8°
- Saturn biquintile Neptune 0.9°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.4°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.4°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Caan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as James
Nancy Pelosi was born on March 26, 1940 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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James’s cards
Every card is computed from March 26, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for James Caan, 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 Q95043, 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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Caan 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 Caan.
Quick answers about James Caan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Caan?
- James Caan was an Aries: born March 26, 1940, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon.
- What was James Caan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 26, 1940 birth.
- What time was James Caan 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.
- How tall was James Caan?
- James Caan was 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was James Caan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the March 26, 1940 birth date.
- What was James Caan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 26, 1940 birth date.
- Where was James Caan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Caan's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
