James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (born June 13, 1831, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; died 1879), was a Scottish physicist. Maxwell is best remembered for Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics, Maxwell's demon and Maxwell's equations. Maxwell's honours include Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame, Adams Prize and Royal Society Bakerian Medal.
James Clerk Maxwell’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rabbit, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Rabbit, with 
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James Clerk Maxwell’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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its peak year
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James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white
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 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.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore James openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. James is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means James does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where James sits
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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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunQuick, curious, already elsewhere.
James Clerk Maxwell's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 13, 1831, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Metal Rabbit
Metal RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
James Clerk Maxwell was born on June 13, 1831, which falls in a Metal Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
James Clerk Maxwell's birth date, June 13, 1831, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Clerk Maxwell's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with four planets in each.
- James Clerk Maxwell combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Clerk Maxwell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 13° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.2° to 1.1° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMercurysextileVenus0.5° to 1.2° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune0.7° to 1.4° orb
James’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableUranussextilePluto3.7° orb
James’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.3° to 4.7° orb
James’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.4° to 4.5° orb
James’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.3° to 6.8° orb
James’s affections and drive act as one.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 1.0° to 15.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 3.9° to 17.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 14°19′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has James building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 18°52′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. James is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 13°22′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. James is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCancer 16°14′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. James is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has James leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
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.
- Chiron square Uranus 0.0°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 0.9°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.8°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus4 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Jupiter; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn; 1 major aspect
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: James is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Clerk Maxwell, 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 June 13, 1831, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for James Clerk Maxwell, 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 Q9095, 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.
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The same James Clerk Maxwell at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about James Clerk Maxwell’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Clerk Maxwell?
- James Clerk Maxwell was a Gemini: born June 13, 1831, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Rabbit.
- What was James Clerk Maxwell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 13, 1831 birth.
- What time was James Clerk Maxwell 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.
- What was James Clerk Maxwell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the June 13, 1831 birth date.
- What was James Clerk Maxwell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 13, 1831 birth date.
- Where was James Clerk Maxwell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Clerk Maxwell's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own 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.
