James Cronin
James Cronin (born September 29, 1931, Chicago, United States; died 2016), was an American physicist. Cronin's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science and Guggenheim Fellowship.
James Cronin’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with James
James Cronin’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, 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 1931, 51,212 American boys and 345 girls were registered James — 2nd among boys and 344th 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.
4
Expression · building what holds
3
Soul Urge · being heard
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
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
7 · 2
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Blush · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1931, 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
The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award came in 1976, when James Cronin was 45.
Study took James Cronin to Highland Park High School and University of Chicago.
On Wikipedia the categories read University of Utah faculty, Weak interaction physicists and Sloan Research Fellows.
Anita Ekberg 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
- Highland Park High School, University of Chicago and Southern Methodist University
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1980), National Medal of Science (1999) and Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1976)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 66
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of James is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, James is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What James needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. James gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. James creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: James is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. James is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means James runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
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 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 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 Cronin
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Chicago 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 Chicago that night
Computed for 41.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Chicago at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 11.7° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.
Chicago sits at 41.9°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 −48.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 91% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Chicago, United States
The death is recorded at Saint Paul, Ramsey County in 2016.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Cronin: 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
T-square onto Uranus
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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
James Cronin's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 29, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
James Cronin was born on September 29, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
James Cronin's birth date, September 29, 1931, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Cronin's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Cronin combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Taurus 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
stableMoontrineNeptune0.0° to 6.7° orb
James’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextilePluto0.0° to 1.5° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMoonoppositionMars0.1° to 6.6° orb
James’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.1° to 1.2° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune1.4° to 2.1° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus2.2° to 2.4° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter3.6° to 4.7° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.8° to 5.4° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.2° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.7° to 5.9° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.7° to 5.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 23°10′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 9°39′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 7°13′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 11°19′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.4°
- Eros square Neptune 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 1.2°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.6°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.8°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.9°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn6 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Uranus, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.1°
Born the same day as James
Anita Ekberg was born on September 29, 1931 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 Chicago, at 41.9°N, nothing below −48.1° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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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 September 29, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193496 (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 Markus Pössel (Mapos), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Cronin at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Cronin.
Quick answers about James Cronin’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Cronin?
- James Cronin was a Libra: born September 29, 1931, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was James Cronin's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 29, 1931 birth.
- What was James Cronin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Cronin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Cronin's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Cronin's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
