James Dyson
James Dyson (born May 2, 1947, Cromer, United Kingdom), aged 79, is a British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company (born 1947).
James Dyson’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Fire Pig, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with James
James Dyson’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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
James ranked 1st among boys and 516th among girls in 1947, the year of this birth, with 94,767 American boys and 257 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
1 · 2 · 5 · 8
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, 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
James Dyson took the Prince Philip Designers Prize in 1997, at 50.
Training came by way of Byam Shaw School of Art and Royal College of Art.
David Beckham (1975) and Dwayne Johnson (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Byam Shaw School of Art, Royal College of Art and Gresham's School
- Awards
- Order of Merit (2016), Knight Bachelor (2007) and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1998)
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 29
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.
The vibe
Underneath, James cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What James needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. James creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: James is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. James is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of James leads without needing to do it alone.
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. Working below.
Where James sits
Six lines
James’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Dyson
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cromer 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 Cromer that night
Computed for 52.93°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Cromer at 9 p.m. that evening: Alkaphrah of Ursa Major, within 9.1° of the exact zenith.
Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
At 52.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Cromer at all: they sit past the −37.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 94% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat -3° below the horizon.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
James Dyson's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 2, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
James Dyson was born on May 2, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
James Dyson's birth date, May 2, 1947, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Dyson's date-only chart is Venus opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Dyson combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Libra 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
stableSunsquarePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 7.2° orb
James’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb
James’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 6.7° orb
stableVenustrinePluto1.7° to 2.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° orb
stableMarssextileUranus3.4° to 4.1° orb
stableMarstrinePluto4.4° to 5.2° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.5° to 6.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars6.8° to 7.3° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune6.8° to 7.6° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 5°04′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 8°26′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Sagittarius 25°18′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 20°52′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 10°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres opposition Neptune 0.2°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 0.9°
- Eros trine Mercury 1.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 1.7°
- Chiron square Saturn 2.4°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.6°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars8 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.6°
- Venus quintile Uranus 1.2°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
More people like James
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- Geoffrey HintonBritish-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
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- Alan RickmanBritish actor and director
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Fellow Taurus suns
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Born in Pig years
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- Erwin SchrödingerAustrian physicist
Also born on May 2
- David Beckham1975
- Dwayne Johnson1972
- Donatella Versace1955
- BamBam1997
- Mon Laferte1983
- Lily Allen1985
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Sidy CissokoFrench basketball player (born 2004)
- Aday MaraSpanish basketball player (born 2005)
- Anfernee SimonsAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
Other Taurus Pig charts
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- Penny PritzkerAmerican billionaire businesswoman (born 1959)
- José MujicaUruguayan guerrilla fighter and politician
- Daniel AlvesBrazilian footballer
Other Gilded Scholars
- Peter LorreHungarian and American actor
- Leslie HowardBritish actor
- Fredric MarchAmerican actor
- Antonin ArtaudFrench-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
James’s cards
Computed from May 2, 1947. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
1 · Pioneer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1346101 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Dyson.
Quick answers about James Dyson’s chart
- How old is James Dyson?
- James Dyson is 79 years old, born May 2, 1947 in Cromer, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is James Dyson?
- James Dyson is a Taurus: born May 2, 1947, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is James Dyson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 2, 1947 birth.
- What is James Dyson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Dyson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Dyson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Dyson's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Neptune; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
