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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Goat, with 
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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
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James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, 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 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.
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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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for James Cronin, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 1° to 13° Taurus 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.
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
James’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.4° to 2.1° orb
James’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.2° to 2.4° orb
James’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileJupiter3.6° to 4.7° orb
James’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.8° to 5.4° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableUranussquarePluto4.2° orb
James’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareSaturn4.7° to 5.9° orb
James’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.3° orb
James’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionVenus5.7° to 5.9° orb
James’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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 23°10′ (moves 0.03° 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.
⚳ CeresScorpio 9°39′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. James is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosSagittarius 7°13′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has James attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaLeo 11°19′ (moves 0.29° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has James at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has James carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- 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°
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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: James is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
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 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.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Cronin, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as James
Anita Ekberg was born on September 29, 1931 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. 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
Every card is computed from September 29, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for James Cronin, 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 Q193496, 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 Markus Pössel (Mapos), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Cronin 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat.
- 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 time was James Cronin 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 Cronin's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the September 29, 1931 birth date.
- What was James Cronin's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 29, 1931 birth date.
- 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.
