James Franco
James Franco (born April 19, 1978, Palo Alto, United States, 19:04), aged 48, is an American actor. Notable films include Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. Franco's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, Golden Shell and Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Actor.
James Franco’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with James
James Franco’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 5th among boys and 625th among girls in 1978, the year of this birth, with 39,894 American boys and 269 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
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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
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1978, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets James apart
James Franco took the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Miniseries or Television Film in 2002, at 24.
The classrooms behind this chart: Instituto San Martín Curicó and UCLA Extension.
The working life starts in 1997, at 19.
The same date carries Sheinelle Jones. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Instituto San Martín Curicó, UCLA Extension and Warren Wilson College
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Miniseries or Television Film (2002) and Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Actor (2010)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1997
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 83
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of James is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, James is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What James needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once James is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. James creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. James is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to James Franco
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Palo Alto on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Palo Alto at 19:04, James Franco’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Palo Alto that night
Computed for 37.42°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Palo Alto was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 79.8° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 104 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 37.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −52.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Palo Alto on any night.
The Moon, 89% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 3° below the horizon.
What James's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Peacemaker 天同, The Lunar Star 太陰 in 午
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Five planets retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
James Franco's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time.
What Aries means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseCan't stand still. Won't.
James Franco was born on April 19, 1978, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
James Franco's birth date, April 19, 1978, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in James Franco's timed chart: Venus in the 7th house, Mars in the 10th house, Saturn in the 10th house and Uranus in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in James Franco's timed chart is Moon trine Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- James Franco combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
James’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoontrineVenusseparating · 0.2° orb
James’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercuryoppositionPlutoapplying · 1.0° orb
James’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
SunsextileJupiterapplying · 1.5° orb
James’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
MercurytrineNeptuneseparating · 2.1° orb
VenussquareSaturnapplying · 2.5° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.2° orb
MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 3.3° orb
SunsquareMarsapplying · 3.8° orb
SaturntrineNeptuneseparating · 5.6° orb
SuntrineSaturnseparating · 6.0° orb
VenusoppositionUranusseparating · 6.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironTaurus 4°59′ · House 7
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 21°41′ · House 3
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 5°16′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 1°49′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 10°20′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Moon 0.3°
- Ceres trine Venus 0.5°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.6°
- Chiron opposition Ascendant 1.0°
- Eros opposition Ascendant 1.3°
- Chiron square Mars 1.5°
- Eros square Mars 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Ascendant 2.1°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9.5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the tenth house; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Pluto; angular in the seventh house; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Moon sign, Virgo; disposes Moon; 2 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.4°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.5°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 0.9°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.2°
James’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 12 | Uranus | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 9 | Neptune | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Capricorn | Saturn in Leo, house 10 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aquarius | Uranus in Scorpio, house 1 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aries | Mars in Leo, house 10 | Sun, Mercury | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Taurus | Venus in Taurus, house 7 | Venus | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Gemini | Mercury in Aries, house 6 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Cancer | Moon in Virgo, house 11 | Jupiter | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 6 | Mars, Saturn | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Virgo | Mercury in Aries, house 6 | Moon | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Libra | Venus in Taurus, house 7 | Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Born the same day as James
Sheinelle Jones was born on April 19, 1978 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Palo Alto, at 37.4°N, nothing below −52.6° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
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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 April 19, 1978. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Hour
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q306403 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Franco at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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 Franco.
Quick answers about James Franco’s chart
- How old is James Franco?
- James Franco is 48 years old, born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, United States.
- What zodiac sign is James Franco?
- James Franco is an Aries: born April 19, 1978, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time.
- What is James Franco's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 19, 1978 birth.
- What time was James Franco born?
- 19:04 local time in Palo Alto, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is James Franco's rising sign?
- Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 19:04 birth time in Palo Alto, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is James Franco's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Franco's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Franco's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 10°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Franco's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9.5 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; angular in the tenth house; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
