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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Pig, with 
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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
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
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where James sits
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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.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for James Cagney, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° 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.
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
James’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercurysextileNeptune3.8° to 4.9° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableJupitertrineNeptune5.3° orb
James’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareJupiter5.6° to 6.5° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune7.6° to 7.7° orb
James’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 7°12′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has James building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresScorpio 1°17′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. James is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosVirgo 2°01′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. James is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 26°35′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. James is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. James is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- 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°
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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: James is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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.
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 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.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Cagney, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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James’s cards
Every card is computed from July 17, 1899, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for James Cagney, 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 Q94041, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
- 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.
- What time was James Cagney 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 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 from the July 17, 1899 birth date.
- What was James Cagney's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 17, 1899 birth date.
- 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.
