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James Farley

James Farley (born January 8, 1882, Waldron, United States; died 1947), was an American actor.

James Farley’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Metal Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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James Farley’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Strategist

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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 3rd among boys and 438th among girls in 1882, the year of this birth, with 5,892 American boys and 18 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.

7

Expression · depth and research

3

Soul Urge · being heard

4

Personality · steady, dependable

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 · 8 · 9

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

The working life starts in 1916, at 34.

Wikipedia's editors put James Farley under People from Scott County, Arkansas, Male actors from Arkansas and American male silent film actors.

Elvis Presley (1935) and Stephen Hawking (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Working from
1916
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
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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.

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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. James creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means James does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
James

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
James

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
James

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
James

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

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 Farley

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

James’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 89.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 71.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Waldron that night

Computed for 34.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Menkib stood nearest the zenith over Waldron at 9 p.m. that evening, 89.2° above the horizon in Perseus.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 34.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Waldron at all: they sit past the −55.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon down and 82% lit at waning gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Waldron, United States

The death is recorded at Pacoima, Los Angeles in 1947.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Farley: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual James's chart is

Chart pattern score

85 / 100 · One in a thousand

4-planet stellium in Taurus · 3-planet stellium in Capricorn · Grand trine

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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James Farley in 15 seconds

Capricorn Sun

Ambition wearing a plain coat.

James Farley's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 8, 1882, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Metal Snake

Private by design.

James Farley was born on January 8, 1882, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

James Farley's birth date, January 8, 1882, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in James’s chart

James’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Uranus · Trine, 0° orbMoon flows with Saturn · Trine, 0° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.2° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.2° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 2.2° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.2° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.4° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 2.5° orbSun in Capricorn · 18°26′☉18°Moon in Virgo · 5°31′☽5°Mercury in Capricorn · 19°40′☿19°Venus in Capricorn · 8°02′♀8°Mars in Cancer · 1°04′ · retrograde♂℞1°Jupiter in Taurus · 16°13′ · retrograde♃℞16°Saturn in Taurus · 5°33′♄5°Uranus in Virgo · 18°27′ · retrograde♅℞18°Neptune in Taurus · 13°50′ · retrograde♆℞13°Pluto in Taurus · 27°32′ · retrograde♇℞27°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
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

  • stableSuntrineUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb

    James’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMoontrineSaturn0.0° to 6.2° orb

    James’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.4° to 2.0° orb

    James’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 1.5° orb

  • stableSuntrineJupiter1.7° to 2.7° orb

  • stableVenustrineSaturn1.8° to 3.1° orb

  • stableJupitertrineUranus2.2° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrineJupiter2.6° to 4.3° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune4.1° to 5.1° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn4.3° to 4.6° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth9 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire or Air signs.

James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 17°46′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 25°51′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 28°27′ (moves 0.73° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 25°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Sun 0.7°
  • Chiron trine Uranus 0.7°
  • Eros opposition Pluto 0.9°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 1.6°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 1.7°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.9°
  • Hygiea square Pluto 2.2°

James’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus7 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in James’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mercury, Jupiter, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.1°

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James’s cards

Computed from January 8, 1882. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Strategist

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q18715957 (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.

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The same James Farley at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Farley.

Quick answers about James Farley’s chart

What zodiac sign was James Farley?
James Farley was a Capricorn: born January 8, 1882, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was James Farley's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 8, 1882 birth.
What was James Farley's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was James Farley's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was James Farley's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was James Farley's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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