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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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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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

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

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

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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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where James sits

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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.

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✦ 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 →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.

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. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.

What stands out in James’s chart

James’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for James Ford Rhodes, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 26° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

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. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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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

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.

  • 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

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

  • stableSunsextileMars3.1° to 3.5° orb

    James’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter3.3° to 4.1° orb

    James’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.3° to 3.8° orb

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

  • stableVenussquareJupiter3.7° to 4.8° orb

    James’s affections grind against their growth.

  • stableJupitersquareUranus4.3° to 4.4° orb

    James’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMarstrineNeptune5.5° to 6.1° orb

    James’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableVenusconjunctionPluto6.7° to 7.9° orb

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

  • stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.8° to 7.3° orb

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

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

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 ℞Scorpio 7°48′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has James carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.

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

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

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has James caring in practical detail rather than in words.

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

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

    Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. James is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.

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

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

    Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. James is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.

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

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. James is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

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.

  • 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°

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. 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

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: James is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Ford Rhodes, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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James’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Moon

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AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Lightkeeper

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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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

No birth time is on public record for James Ford Rhodes, 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 Q1680399, 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 Notman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same James Ford Rhodes at Wikipedia.

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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey.
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 time was James Ford Rhodes 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 Ford Rhodes's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the May 1, 1848 birth date.
What was James Ford Rhodes's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 1, 1848 birth date.
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.

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