AsterNymAsterNym
Portrait of James Ford Rhodes

James Ford Rhodes

James Ford Rhodes (born May 1, 1848, Cleveland, United States; died 1927), was an United States historian. Rhodes's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History.

James Ford Rhodes’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

Your match with James

Free, no account, stays on this device. Add a birth time later.

James Ford Rhodes’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive 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

The earliest American count for James is 1880, 32 years on: 3rd among boys and 344th among girls, 5,927 American boys and 22 girls.

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

5

Soul Urge · freedom

11

Personality · perceptive

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

9 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Blush · Terracotta

The record

What sets James apart

James Ford Rhodes took the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1918, at 70.

Lincoln-West High School and New York University shaped the training.

The grave is at Riverside Cemetery.

On the family side, James Ford Rhodes was born to Sophia Lord Rhodes and Daniel Pomeroy Rhodes and raised one child.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for James Ford Rhodes: Historians from Ohio, Businesspeople from Cleveland and Corresponding fellows of the British Academy.

Charli D'Amelio (2004) and Jamie Dornan (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Lincoln-West High School and New York University
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for History (1918)
Buried at
Riverside Cemetery
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
12

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 runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What James needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

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 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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. James is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
James

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
James

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
James

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
James

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 Ford Rhodes

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

James’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 79.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 27.8° 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 Cleveland that night

Computed for 41.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over Cleveland at 9 p.m. that evening, 79.5° above the horizon in Ursa Major.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 41.5°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon down and 2% lit at new moon.

The name and the places

Born in
Cleveland, United States

The death is recorded at Brookline, Norfolk County in 1927.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Ford Rhodes: 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

63 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Aries · A bowl chart · No Air planets

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 →

James Ford Rhodes at a glance

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

James Ford Rhodes's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 1, 1848, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Earth Monkey

Inventive, restless, funny.

James Ford Rhodes was born on May 1, 1848, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

James Ford Rhodes's birth date, May 1, 1848, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 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 11° to 26° Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.1° orbMoon fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.4° orbMoon fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.5° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.3° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.5° orbMercury fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.6° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.7° orbMercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.8° orbSun in Taurus · 11°25′☉11°Moon in Aries · 19°01′☽19°Mercury in Aries · 23°00′☿23°Venus in Aries · 19°26′♀19°Mars in Cancer · 8°06′♂8°Jupiter in Cancer · 15°08′♃15°Saturn in Pisces · 21°58′♄21°Uranus in Aries · 19°32′♅19°Neptune in Pisces · 2°18′♆2°Pluto in Aries · 26°45′♇26°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

  • stableVenusconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.7° orb

    James’s affections and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 7.6° orb

    James’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.6° to 4.3° orb

    James’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionPluto2.9° to 4.6° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars3.1° to 3.5° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter3.3° to 4.1° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.3° to 3.8° orb

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.7° to 4.8° orb

  • stableJupitersquareUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • stableMarstrineNeptune5.5° to 6.1° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.7° to 7.9° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.8° to 7.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal7 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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 ℞Scorpio 7°48′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 15°16′ (moves 0.03° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 3°24′ (moves 0.93° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 18°34′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 2°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Chiron trine Mars 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.3°
  • Hygiea square Venus 0.9°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 1.0°
  • Eros trine Neptune 1.1°

James’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    5 major aspects

Configurations in James’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Mercury, Venus, Uranus, 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.

Minor aspects

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

  • Mars quintile Pluto 0.7°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°

More people like James

Other writers

Born in United States

More charts like James’s

Fellow Taurus suns

All about Taurus →

Born in Monkey years

Year of the Monkey →

Also born on May 1

Fellow Yang Water day masters

What a Day Master is →

Other Taurus Monkey charts

Other Tidal Lightkeepers

The Tidal Lightkeeper explained →

Famous people with Life Path 9

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle

James’s cards

Computed from May 1, 1848. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Moon

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

9 · Healer

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1680399 (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 Notman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same James Ford Rhodes at Wikipedia.

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

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

Quick answers about James Ford Rhodes’s chart

What zodiac sign was James Ford Rhodes?
James Ford Rhodes was a Taurus: born May 1, 1848, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What was James Ford Rhodes's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 1, 1848 birth.
What was James Ford Rhodes's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What was James Ford Rhodes's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was James Ford Rhodes's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was James Ford Rhodes's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

More charts to explore