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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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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
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 · 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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
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. 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 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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for James Cromwell, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 24° Virgo 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.
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
James’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitertrinePluto3.4° to 3.6° orb
James’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableSunoppositionPluto4.6° to 5.6° orb
James’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.4° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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 ℞Cancer 15°44′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. James is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 19°21′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has James caring in practical detail rather than in words.
♡ ErosScorpio 27°05′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. James is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 15°28′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. James is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 14°52′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. James is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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 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°
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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: James is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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.
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.0°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Cromwell, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from January 27, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for James Cromwell, 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 Q299483, 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 Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Cromwell at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit.
- 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.
- What time was James Cromwell 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 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 from the January 27, 1940 birth date.
- What is James Cromwell's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 27, 1940 birth date.
- 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.
