James Farley
James Farley (born January 8, 1882, Waldron, United States; died 1947), was an American actor.
James Farley’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Snake, with 
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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
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
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 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.
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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James Farley in 15 seconds
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition 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. 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 Snake
Metal SnakePrivate by design.
James Farley was born on January 8, 1882, which falls in a Metal 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 1
Life Path 1Starts things. Lots of things.
James Farley's birth date, January 8, 1882, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Farley's date-only chart is Sun trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Nine of the ten planets are in Earth signs, and none in Fire and Air.
- James Farley combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Strategist.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Farley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Leo or Virgo 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.
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
James’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.7° to 2.7° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.8° to 3.1° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.2° orb
James’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.4° orb
James’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrineJupiter2.6° to 4.3° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineNeptune4.1° to 5.1° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssextileSaturn4.3° to 4.6° orb
James’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableUranustrineNeptune4.6° orb
James’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
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
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 17°46′ (moves 0.02° 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.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 25°51′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has James caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosScorpio 28°27′ (moves 0.73° 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.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 25°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has James at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°53′ (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.
- 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°
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. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 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 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 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 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.
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 0.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Farley, 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 8, 1882, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for James Farley, 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 Q18715957, 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.
Portrait by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Farley 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
- 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 time was James Farley 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 Farley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the January 8, 1882 birth date.
- What was James Farley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 8, 1882 birth date.
- 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.
