James Charles
James Charles (born May 23, 1999, Bethlehem, United States), aged 27, is an American YouTuber, make-up artist and model. Charles's honours include Diamond Play Button.
James Charles’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with James
James Charles’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, 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 1999, 18,555 American boys and 40 girls were registered James — 19th among boys and 3,207th 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
11 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Lilac · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1999, 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 Charles was taught at Bethlehem Central High School.
James Charles was 17 when the work began in 2016.
On Wikipedia the categories read People from Bethlehem, New York, American reality television producers and LGBTQ TikTokers.
Sandro Mamukelashvili 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
- Bethlehem Central High School
- Working from
- 2016
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 27
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. James needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, James is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What James needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. James creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: James is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. James is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. James fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Charles
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bethlehem 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 Bethlehem that night
Computed for 42.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Bethlehem at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.2° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.
Bethlehem sits at 42.6°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 −47.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 68% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 7° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Bethlehem, United States
- Lives in
- Encino
Wikidata records Encino as James Charles's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Charles: 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
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree · Mars retrograde
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
James Charles's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 23, 1999, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitQuiet luck follows.
James Charles was born on May 23, 1999, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
James Charles's birth date, May 23, 1999, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Charles' date-only chart is Mars opposition Jupiter, with an orb of about 2°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- James Charles combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 25° Virgo 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
stableSuntrineNeptune1.7° to 2.7° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsoppositionJupiter1.9° to 2.3° orb
James’s drive pulls against their growth from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.0° to 3.2° orb
James’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.7° to 5.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto6.7° to 7.7° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus6.7° to 6.8° orb
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 2.7° to 15.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 3.3° to 15.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 5.5° to 15.8° depending on birth time
possibleVenussquareJupiterorb from 6.5° to 7.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 0°38′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 4°09′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 13°50′ (moves 0.77° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 25°16′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 28°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.0°
- Chiron opposition Mercury 1.1°
- Chiron opposition Sun 1.5°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.0°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.5°
- Eros square Uranus 3.0°
James’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 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.
- Venus quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Sun biquintile Mars 0.7°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.0°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.8°
Born the same day as James
Sandro Mamukelashvili was born on May 23, 1999 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 Bethlehem, at 42.6°N, nothing below −47.4° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like James
Other television producers
- Valkyrae1992
- Shroud1994
- Bretman Rock1998
- Jacksepticeye1990
- Marques Brownlee1993
- Josh Richards2002
Born in United States
- Sabrina CarpenterAmerican singer-songwriter and actress
- Micah ParsonsAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Darrick ForrestAmerican football player
- Christian DarrisawAmerican football player
- Tylan WallaceAmerican football player
- Brec BassingerAmerican actress
More charts like James’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Alanis MorissetteCanadian-American singer
- Aage BohrDanish physicist
- Zoe SaldañaAmerican actress, dancer, and model
Born in Rabbit years
- Jesse McCartneyAmerican singer and actor
- Jenny LewisAmerican musician and actress
- Heather MorrisAmerican actress, dancer, singer, and model
Also born on May 23
- John Bardeen1908
- Rubens Barrichello1972
- Ryan Coogler1986
- Steve Lacy1998
- Mohamed Ramadan1988
- Lena Meyer-Landrut1991
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Stefan Helldirector at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany
- Bruce BeutlerAmerican immunologist and geneticist
- Charles Édouard GuillaumeSwiss physicist
Other Gemini Rabbit charts
- Cameron GreenAustralian cricketer
- Brec BassingerAmerican actress
- Kai HavertzGerman association football player (born 1999)
- Snail MailSolo musical project of Lindsey Jordan
Other Evergreen Seekers
- Max StrusAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Precious AchiuwaNigerian basketball player (born 1999)
- C.J. HuntleyAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Martin ViessmannGerman businessman
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Gerald EdelmanAmerican biologist
- Niels Kaj JerneDanish immunologist
- John ClauserAmerican physicist
From the journal: The 12 animals and how the race story goes · The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is
James’s cards
Computed from May 23, 1999. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
11 · Visionary☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q58816418 (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 Lone Fox, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Charles at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, 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 Charles.
Quick answers about James Charles’s chart
- How old is James Charles?
- James Charles is 27 years old, born May 23, 1999 in Bethlehem, United States.
- What zodiac sign is James Charles?
- James Charles is a Gemini: born May 23, 1999, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is James Charles's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 23, 1999 birth.
- What is James Charles's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Charles's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Charles's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Charles's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
