James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931, Arkabutla, United States; died 2024), was an American actor. Jones is best remembered for The Lion King and Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Jones's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Daytime Emmy Award.
James Earl Jones’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Horse, with 
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James Earl Jones’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
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James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of James is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, James is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What James needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with James and watch them fall for you again.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. James creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
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 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 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, 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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
James Earl Jones's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 17, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
James Earl Jones's birth date, January 17, 1931, 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
- The tightest major aspect in James Earl Jones' date-only chart is Venus trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Earl Jones combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Earl Jones, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Capricorn 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.
stableVenustrineMars0.0° to 0.7° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMoonoppositionJupiter0.1° to 7.3° orb
James’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.1° to 6.8° orb
James’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenustrineUranus0.5° to 1.3° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMarstrineUranus0.7° to 1.1° orb
James’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn1.6° to 1.8° orb
James’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitersquareUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
James’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSaturnsquareUranus3.9° to 4.0° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
James’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenussquareNeptune5.1° to 6.0° orb
James’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb
James’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
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 14°01′ (moves 0.01° 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.
⚳ CeresLibra 13°13′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. James is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosVirgo 5°16′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. James is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 4°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has James needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 7°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. James is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.0°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 0.1°
- Ceres square Jupiter 0.8°
- Eros trine Mercury 0.8°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.9°
- Ceres opposition Uranus 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.5°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.4°
- Ceres sextile Mars 2.4°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.5°
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. ♄ Saturn11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
5 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: James is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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.
Grand trine · Venus, Mars, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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 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.
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.4°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Mars 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Earl Jones, 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 January 17, 1931, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for James Earl Jones, 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 Q203960, 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.
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The same James Earl Jones at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Earl Jones’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Earl Jones?
- James Earl Jones was a Capricorn: born January 17, 1931, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Horse.
- What was James Earl Jones's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 17, 1931 birth.
- What time was James Earl Jones 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 Earl Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 17, 1931 birth date.
- What was James Earl Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 17, 1931 birth date.
- Where was James Earl Jones's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Earl Jones's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
