James Cagney
James Cagney (born July 17, 1899, Manhattan, United States; died 1986), was an American actor and dancer. Cagney served as President of SAG. Cagney's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Academy Award for Best Actor and Kennedy Center Honors.
James Cagney’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with James
James Cagney’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
James ranked 3rd among boys and 600th among girls in 1899, the year of this birth, with 4,597 American boys and 27 girls on the register.
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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
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
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Citrine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌻 Zinnia
Sky blue · Pearl · Terracotta
The record
What sets James apart
Angela Merkel (1954) and Queen Camilla (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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 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 like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. James gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. James creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: James is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Cagney
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.4° above the horizon in Draco.
Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Manhattan at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon up and 71% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Mars · 1 unaspected planet · 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 →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
James Cagney's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 17, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
James Cagney was born on July 17, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
James Cagney's birth date, July 17, 1899, 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 Cagney's date-only chart is Mars square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Cagney combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° 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
stableMarssquareSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
James’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMarssquarePluto1.9° to 2.4° orb
James’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto1.9° to 2.0° orb
James’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.7° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune3.8° to 4.9° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.3° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.6° to 6.5° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.6° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.9° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 3.4° to 15.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 7°12′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 1°17′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 2°01′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 26°35′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.4°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.9°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.1°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.7°
- Eros square Uranus 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.3°
- Chiron conjunction Uranus 2.9°
James’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Saturn, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
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Born in Pig years
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- Christina ApplegateAmerican actress
- Jesse EisenbergAmerican actor
Also born on July 17
- Angela Merkel1954
- Queen Camilla1947
- Kali Uchis1994
- Alex Winter1965
- Luke Bryan1976
- Tony Dovolani1973
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Alessio FigalliItalian mathematician (1984–)
- Horst Ludwig StörmerGerman physicist
- Ales BialiatskiBelarusian activist, Nobel laureate (born 1962)
Other Cancer Pig charts
- İrfan KahveciTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Ari FletcherTV personality
- Kaden EllissAmerican football player
- Andrew Van GinkelAmerican football player (born 1995)
Other Radiant Diplomats
- Maya HawkeAmerican actress
- Jalen HurtsAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Jon HederAmerican actor
- Florence HendersonAmerican actress and singer
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Peyton WatsonAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Amari WilliamsBritish basketball player (born 2002)
- Josh GiddeyAustralian basketball player (born 2002)
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James’s cards
Computed from July 17, 1899. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q94041 (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 Warner Bros. Studio (work for hire), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Cagney 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 Cagney.
Quick answers about James Cagney’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Cagney?
- James Cagney was a Cancer: born July 17, 1899, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was James Cagney's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 17, 1899 birth.
- How tall was James Cagney?
- James Cagney was 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was James Cagney's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Cagney's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Cagney's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Cagney's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
