James Cromwell
James Cromwell (born January 27, 1940, Los Angeles, United States), aged 86, is an American actor (born 1940). Cromwell is best known for Six Feet Under and Babe. Cromwell's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.
James Cromwell’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with James
James Cromwell’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
Of the names registered in 1940, James came 1st among boys and 424th among girls, carried by 62,481 American boys and 259 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1).
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 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
The record
What sets James apart
Rosamund Pike (1979) and Alan Cumming (1965) 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 is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of James is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
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 tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with James, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. James creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
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 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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means James gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 Cromwell
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles that night
Computed for 34.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Los Angeles was Elnath, in Taurus, 84.1° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 34.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Los Angeles at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 85% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 46° down.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 unaspected planets
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 →James Cromwell at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
James Cromwell's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 27, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitQuiet luck follows.
James Cromwell was born on January 27, 1940, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rabbit means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
James Cromwell's birth date, January 27, 1940, 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 Cromwell's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- James Cromwell combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 24° 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
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.4° to 1.9° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileJupiter1.1° to 2.0° orb
James’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.5° to 3.2° orb
James’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunconjunctionMercury2.4° to 3.1° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.4° orb
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 1.2° to 16.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 15°44′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 19°21′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 27°05′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 15°28′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mars 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 0.8°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Neptune 1.8°
- Chiron sextile Uranus 2.2°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.5°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 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.
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.0°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
More people like James
Other actors
- James Gammon1940
- Valerie Harper1939
- Raquel Welch1940
- Ian McKellen1939
- Plácido Domingo1941
- John Cleese1939
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Born in Rabbit years
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Also born on January 27
- Rosamund Pike1979
- Alan Cumming1965
- Mike Patton1968
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- Liu Wen1988
- Jake Pavelka1978
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- Franklin JonasAmerican actor
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
James’s cards
Computed from January 27, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q299483 (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 Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Cromwell at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Cromwell.
Quick answers about James Cromwell’s chart
- How old is James Cromwell?
- James Cromwell is 86 years old, born January 27, 1940 in Los Angeles, United States.
- What zodiac sign is James Cromwell?
- James Cromwell is an Aquarius: born January 27, 1940, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is James Cromwell's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 27, 1940 birth.
- How tall is James Cromwell?
- James Cromwell is 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is James Cromwell's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Cromwell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Cromwell's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Cromwell's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
