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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Horse, with 
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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
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
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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where James sits
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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.
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The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
James Franco's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
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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
James’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
VenussquareSaturnapplying · 2.5° orb
James’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.2° orb
James’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsquareNeptuneseparating · 3.3° orb
James’s feelings grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunsquareMarsapplying · 3.8° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their drive.
SaturntrineNeptuneseparating · 5.6° orb
James’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SuntrineSaturnseparating · 6.0° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
VenusoppositionUranusseparating · 6.2° orb
James’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 4°59′ · House 7
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 21°41′ · House 3
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.
♡ ErosTaurus 5°16′ · House 7
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has James wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 1°49′ · House 3
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. James is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 10°20′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has James guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- 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°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: James is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
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| 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 with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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James’s cards
Every card is computed from April 19, 1978, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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 data comes from
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q306403, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 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. 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.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Horse.
- 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 from the April 19, 1978 birth date.
- What is James Franco's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°, in the seventh house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 19, 1978 birth time.
- 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.
