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, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with James
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
In 1931, 51,212 American boys and 345 girls were registered James — 2nd among boys and 344th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
5
Soul Urge · freedom
7
Personality · composed, private
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
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 record
What sets James apart
Muhammad Ali (1942) and Michelle Obama (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. 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 favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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 night
Dedicate a star to James Earl Jones
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Arkabutla 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 Arkabutla that night
Computed for 34.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Arkabutla at 9 p.m. that evening: Elnath of Taurus, within 9.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 104 catalog stars were up in all.
Arkabutla sits at 34.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −55.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Arkabutla on any night.
Sun 46° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
70 / 100 · Rare
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · Grand trine · T-square onto Uranus
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.
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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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Horse means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Capricorn 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
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
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.7° to 0.8° orb
stableMarstrineUranus0.7° to 1.1° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn1.6° to 1.8° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus2.2° to 2.3° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto3.9° to 4.0° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune5.1° to 6.0° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus5.6° to 5.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 14°01′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 13°13′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 5°16′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 4°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 7°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
James’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in James’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.4°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Mars 1.2°
More people like James
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Born in United States
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More charts like James’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Jason BehrAmerican actor
- Hilaria BaldwinAmerican yoga instructor, entrepreneur, podcaster, and author
- Natalia BryantAmerican model
Born in Horse years
- Lane JohnsonAmerican football player (born 1990)
- Adonai MitchellAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Geno SmithAmerican football player (born 1990)
Also born on January 17
- Muhammad Ali1942
- Michelle Obama1964
- Jim Carrey1962
- Betty White1922
- Eartha Kitt1927
- Zooey Deschanel1980
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Hal BoyleAmerican journalist
- Leonard LevyAmerican historian
- Linnie Marsh WolfeAmerican librarian
Other Capricorn Horse charts
- Anwar SadatPresident of Egypt from 1970 to 1981
- Ross Lee FinneyAmerican composer
- William Morris MeredithAmerican poet
- Doris Kearns GoodwinAmerican biographer and historian (born 1943)
Other Tidal Pioneers
- Allan McLeod CormackAmerican physicist
- Robert Burns WoodwardAmerican chemist
- Carl Ferdinand CoriCzech Nobel prize laureate and scientist
- Theodor SvedbergSwedish chemist
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Michael ColgrassCanadian musician and composer
- Alan M. KriegsmanAmerican dance critic
- Claude H. Van TyneAmerican historian
From the journal: Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle · Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time
James’s cards
Computed from January 17, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q203960 (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.
Portrait by Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Earl Jones at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 Earl Jones.
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.
- 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 was James Earl Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Earl Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
