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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with James
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
In 1940, 62,481 American boys and 259 girls were registered James — 1st among boys and 424th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
8
Soul Urge · achievement
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
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
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
James Caan was taught at Rhodes Preparatory School and Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
James Caan was 21 when the work began in 1961.
The record gives coronary artery disease as the cause, and Eden Memorial Park as the resting place.
The family line: married Sheila Ryan and raised one child.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Sunnyside, Queens, Burials at Eden Memorial Park Cemetery and Male actors from the Bronx.
Nancy Pelosi 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.
- Educated at
- Rhodes Preparatory School, Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and Hofstra University
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1961
- Cause of death
- coronary artery disease
- Buried at
- Eden Memorial Park
- Sport
- karate
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 73
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. Working below.
Where James sits
Six lines
James’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Caan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 102 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
The Bronx sits at 40.8°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 −49.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 30° below the horizon, Moon down and 85% lit at waning gibbous.
The name and the places
- Born in
- The Bronx, United States
The death is recorded at Westwood, Los Angeles in 2022.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Caan: 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
64 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Taurus · 1 unaspected planet · No Air planets
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 →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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 23° Scorpio 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
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
stableMercurysextileVenus2.5° to 3.8° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.0° to 4.1° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSuntrinePluto4.7° to 5.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.5° to 5.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus6.2° to 6.8° orb
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune6.6° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 14°01′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 8°24′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 0°25′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 7°25′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 21°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
James’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in James’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
Born the same day as James
Nancy Pelosi was born on March 26, 1940 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. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 40.8°N, the sky above The Bronx stops at −49.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.
More people like James
Other actors
- James Gammon1940
- John Hurt1940
- Adel Emam1940
- Enzo Staiola1939
- Patrick Stewart1940
- John Cleese1939
Born in United States
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- Steve MasonAmerican poet and military officer
- Herbie HancockAmerican jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)
- Peter FondaAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Joseph L. GoldsteinAmerican biochemist
- Smokey RobinsonAmerican R&B singer, songwriter and producer (born 1940)
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Fellow Aries suns
- Jonathan BrandisAmerican actor
- Sterling K. BrownAmerican actor
- Paulina PorizkovaCzech-American model and actress
Born in Dragon years
- Patrick Surtain IIAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Tyler BadieAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Riley MossAmerican football player (born 2000)
Also born on March 26
- Richard Dawkins1941
- Larry Page1973
- Diana Ross1944
- Martin Short1950
- Jonathan Groff1985
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Ian McDonaldBritish science fiction novelist (1960–)
- Gene WilderAmerican actor
- Anthony BurgessEnglish writer and composer
Other Aries Dragon charts
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- Jacqui BanaszynskiAmerican journalist and academic
- Ada LimónAmerican writer
- Charles Ducalpoet and author from Belgium
Other Steadfast Visionarys
- Ernest BeckerAmerican cultural anthropologist
- Howard SacklerAmerican screenwriter
- James Truslow AdamsAmerican writer and historian
- Jennifer EganAmerican novelist, short story writer
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Marina DiamandisBritish singer
- Leila LopesAngolan beauty pageant titleholder
- MarkiplierAmerican YouTuber and Internet personality
From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
James’s cards
Computed from March 26, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q95043 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was James Caan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
