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James Donald

James Donald (born May 18, 1917, Aberdeen, United Kingdom; died 1993), was a British actor.

James Donald’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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James Donald’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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

5 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Ivory · Blush · Scarlet

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What the chart says

James, according to the stars

Core essence

James is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of James is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How James wants to be loved

James wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to James like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How James creates

How James makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. James creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.

Instinct

Instinct: James is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. James is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means James is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where James sits

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Intimate circleWide network
James

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
James

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
James

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
James

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
James

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
James

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to James Donald

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Aberdeen on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

James’s birth-night reference starPhecdablue-white · Ursa MajorPhecda, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 86.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Phecda →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 34.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

James Donald in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Slow to move, slower to leave.

James Donald's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 18, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Fire Snake

Says less than it knows.

James Donald was born on May 18, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

James Donald's birth date, May 18, 1917, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in James’s chart

James’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for James Donald, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 1° Aries or 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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.3° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 0.7° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.8° orbMoon opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.8° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.7° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.7° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2.5° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.2° orbSun in Taurus · 26°55′☉26°Moon in Aries · 24°27′☽24°Mercury in Taurus · 24°24′ · retrograde☿℞24°Venus in Gemini · 2°46′♀2°Mars in Taurus · 10°05′♂10°Jupiter in Taurus · 20°22′♃20°Saturn in Cancer · 26°06′♄26°Uranus in Aquarius · 23°40′♅23°Neptune in Leo · 2°26′♆2°Pluto in Cancer · 3°02′♇3°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb

    James’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn0.4° to 1.2° orb

    James’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysquareUranus0.4° to 1.0° orb

    James’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn1.4° to 2.0° orb

    James’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.7° to 3.3° orb

    James’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSunsquareUranus2.8° to 3.7° orb

    James’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus3.2° to 3.4° orb

    James’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter3.6° to 4.4° orb

    James’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.7° to 6.0° orb

    James’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 6.9° orb

    James’s core identity and growth act as one.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune6.3° to 6.4° orb

    James’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 29°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has James absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 10°32′ (moves 0.17° 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.

  • ♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 15°06′ (moves 0.36° 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 9°02′ (moves 0.10° 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 LilithLeo 21°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. James is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

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.

  • Ceres trine Mars 0.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 1.0°
  • Hygiea square Mars 1.1°
  • Chiron sextile Sun 2.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 2.3°
  • Chiron trine Saturn 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. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun6 pts

    disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Mars, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

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.

  • Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.1°
  • Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 2.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Donald, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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James’s cards

Every card is computed from May 18, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

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AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for James Donald, 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 Q151567, 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.

The same James Donald 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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by James Donald.

Quick answers about James Donald’s chart

What zodiac sign was James Donald?
James Donald was a Taurus: born May 18, 1917, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
What was James Donald's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 18, 1917 birth.
What time was James Donald 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 Donald's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 18, 1917 birth date.
What was James Donald's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 18, 1917 birth date.
Where was James Donald's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was James Donald's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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