James Dean
James Dean (born February 8, 1931, Marion, United States, 09:00; died 1955), was an American actor. Notable films include Rebel Without a Cause, Giant and East of Eden. Dean's honours include Theatre World Award, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Henrietta Award.
James Dean’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with James
James Dean’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood 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
The SSA recorded 51,212 American boys and 345 girls named James in 1931: 2nd among boys and 344th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
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 Theatre World Award came in 1954, when James Dean was 23.
Study took James Dean to UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Fairmount Public School.
James Dean was 20 when the work began in 1951.
The record gives car collision as the cause, and Park Cemetery as the resting place.
On the family side, James Dean was born to Mildred Marie Wilson and Winton Dean.
Wikipedia files James Dean under Historical figures with ambiguous or disputed sexuality, Road incident deaths in California and People from Marion, Indiana.
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834) and Mauricio Macri (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Fairmount Public School and Santa Monica College
- Awards
- Theatre World Award (1954) and Henrietta Award (1956)
- Nominated for
- Henrietta Award and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1951
- Cause of death
- car collision
- Buried at
- Park Cemetery
- Sport
- auto racing
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- French and English
- Wikipedia editions
- 112
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 feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What James needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show James you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. James builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: James is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
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 ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means James fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 sky
Dedicate a star to James Dean
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Marion on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Marion at 09:00, James Dean’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Marion that night
Computed for 40.55°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Marion at the birth hour: Vega of Lyra, within 2.2° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
Marion sits at 40.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Marion on any night.
The Moon was at last quarter, 62% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -21° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Marion, United States
- Lived in
- Santa Monica · Marion
Wikidata records Santa Monica and Marion as James Dean's home, Marion among them.
The death is recorded at Cholame, San Luis Obispo County in 1955.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What James's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Solar Star 太陽, The Debater 巨門 in 申
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Relationships
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Uranus · Mars retrograde
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
James Dean's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
What Aquarius means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
James Dean was born on February 8, 1931, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Home is the project.
James Dean's birth date, February 8, 1931, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- Six of the ten planets sit in angular houses in James Dean's timed chart: Mercury in the 10th house, Venus in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 4th house, Saturn in the 10th house, Uranus in the 1st house and Pluto in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in James Dean's timed chart is Jupiter square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- James Dean combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
James’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
JupitersquareUranusseparating · 0.8° orb
James’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoonsextileNeptuneseparating · 0.9° orb
James’s feelings open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturnoppositionPlutoapplying · 1.1° orb
James’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
VenustrineNeptuneapplying · 2.6° orb
MoonsquareMarsseparating · 3.3° orb
MoonsextileVenusseparating · 3.5° orb
SaturnsquareUranusseparating · 5.7° orb
MoontrineJupiterapplying · 5.9° orb
MercuryoppositionMarsapplying · 6.4° orb
JupiteroppositionSaturnseparating · 6.6° orb
MercuryoppositionPlutoseparating · 6.8° orb
UranussquarePlutoapplying · 6.8° orb
JupiterconjunctionPlutoseparating · 7.6° orb
MercuryconjunctionSaturnseparating · 7.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 14°08′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 15°25′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Virgo 8°60′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 4°42′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 10°00′ · House 12
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.3°
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 2.5°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.6°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.7°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 3.0°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn11.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mercury, Venus; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Moon; angular in the fourth house; 4 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 Uranus · Jupiter, Saturn, UranusAn 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.
- Venus quincunx Mars 0.2°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.3°
- Moon quintile Saturn 0.4°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
James’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 5 | Uranus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 10 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 10 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Cancer | Moon in Scorpio, house 8 | Jupiter, Pluto | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Leo | Sun in Aquarius, house 11 | Mars | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 10 | Neptune | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 10 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 4 | Moon | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 4 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 10 | Mercury, Venus, Saturn | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 1 | Sun | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Pisces | Neptune in Virgo, house 6 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
James’s cards
Computed from February 8, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83359 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by In-house publicity still, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Dean at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Dean.
Quick answers about James Dean’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Dean?
- James Dean was an Aquarius: born February 8, 1931, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
- What was James Dean's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 8, 1931 birth.
- What time was James Dean born?
- 09:00 local time in Marion, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was James Dean's rising sign?
- Aries rising, calculated from the documented 09:00 birth time in Marion, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall was James Dean?
- James Dean was 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was James Dean's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Dean's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Dean's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 10°, in the twelfth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Dean's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (11.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Mercury, Venus; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects). Uranus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
