James Coburn
James Coburn (born August 31, 1928, Laurel, United States; died 2002), was an American actor. Coburn's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
James Coburn’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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James Coburn’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name James in the U.S.?
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US rank in 2025
~5,274,520
Americans share it since 1880
1947
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 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of James is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, James is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What James needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with James and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. James creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. James scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Laurel on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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James Coburn at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
James Coburn's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 31, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
James Coburn was born on August 31, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
James Coburn's birth date, August 31, 1928, 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 Coburn's date-only chart is Mars opposition Saturn, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Coburn combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Coburn, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 22° Pisces 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.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.8° to 1.3° orb
James’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.9° to 2.9° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.7° to 3.1° orb
James’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextilePluto3.1° to 4.8° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareSaturn4.2° to 5.1° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareMars5.5° to 5.9° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSaturntrineUranus6.2° orb
James’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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 ℞Taurus 10°02′ (moves 0.02° 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 ℞Pisces 11°26′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: James is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ Eros ℞Pisces 7°20′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. James is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 15°56′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. James is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 0°45′ (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 conjunction Jupiter 0.4°
- Eros opposition Sun 0.7°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.0°
- Ceres square Saturn 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.5°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.0°
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 2.0°
- Ceres square Mars 2.3°
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. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars3 pts
disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
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.
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
T-square onto Sun · Mars, Saturn, SunAn 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.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.7°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.2°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 1.5°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Coburn, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
James’s cards
Every card is computed from August 31, 1928, 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 Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for James Coburn, 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 Q4227, 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 NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Coburn at Wikipedia, jamescoburn.com, 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 Coburn.
Quick answers about James Coburn’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Coburn?
- James Coburn was a Virgo: born August 31, 1928, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- What was James Coburn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 31, 1928 birth.
- What time was James Coburn 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 Coburn?
- James Coburn was 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was James Coburn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 31, 1928 birth date.
- What was James Coburn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 31, 1928 birth date.
- Where was James Coburn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Coburn's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
