James Gammon
James Gammon (born April 20, 1940, Newman, United States; died 2010), was an American actor.
James Gammon’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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James Gammon’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 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, 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
11 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Blush · Moonlight white
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 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 cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What James needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to James like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. James creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: James is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. James is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. James scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
James Gammon's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 20, 1940, 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.
Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
James Gammon was born on April 20, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
James Gammon's birth date, April 20, 1940, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Gammon's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- No planet falls in Water signs in this chart.
- James Gammon combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Gammon, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Libra 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.
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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.
stableSunsquarePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb
James’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.9° to 3.8° orb
James’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurytrinePluto3.2° to 4.5° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.4° to 3.7° orb
James’s affections and drive act as one.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 6.9° orb
James’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableJupitersquarePluto6.5° to 6.8° orb
James’s growth grinds against their depths.
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 2.3° to 17.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water 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.
⚷ ChironCancer 14°50′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. James is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.
⚳ CeresVirgo 6°29′ (moves 0.01° 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.
♡ ErosCapricorn 7°17′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. James is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaPisces 15°55′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has James needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 24°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. James is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Hygiea square Venus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.0°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.6°
- Eros square Mercury 2.8°
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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars, Neptune; 1 major aspect
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 in Taurus · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree 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.
- Mercury quintile Venus 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 0.8°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Gammon, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
More people like James
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- Adel Emam1940
- James Cromwell1940
- Patrick Stewart1940
- John Hurt1940
- James Brolin1940
- Enzo Staiola1939
Born in United States
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- Burt YoungAmerican actor
- Nancy PelosiAmerican politician (born 1940)
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More charts like James’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Craig FergusonBritish actor
- Sharman JoshiIndian actor
- Bruce BennettAmerican actor
Born in Dragon years
- Kirk DouglasAmerican actor
- Olivia de HavillandBritish actress
- Thomas MitchellAmerican actor, playwright and screenwriter
Also born on April 20
- Jessica Lange1949
- Miranda Kerr1983
- Carmen Electra1972
- Paul Poiret1879
- Andy Serkis1964
- Tan France1983
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Eliud KipchogeKenyan long-distance runner
- Lleyton HewittAustralian tennis player and tennis coach
- Leighton MeesterAmerican actress and singer
Other Taurus Dragon charts
- Robert ZemeckisAmerican screenwriter, film producer and director (born 1952)
- Giorgio MoroderItalian record producer and composer (born 1940)
- Jacob TsimermanCanadian mathematician (born 1988)
- Harry MartinsonSwedish writer
Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Joe MiltonAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Dalton KincaidAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Gregory RousseauAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Jaxon Smith-NjigbaAmerican football player (born 2002)
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Ryan ReynoldsCanadian-American actor and entrepreneur
- Omar SharifEgyptian actor
- Mark RuffaloAmerican actor
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James’s cards
Every card is computed from April 20, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for James Gammon, 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 Q978184, 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.
The same James Gammon 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 Gammon.
Quick answers about James Gammon’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Gammon?
- James Gammon was a Taurus: born April 20, 1940, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Dragon.
- What was James Gammon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 20, 1940 birth.
- What time was James Gammon 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 Gammon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the April 20, 1940 birth date.
- What was James Gammon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 20, 1940 birth date.
- Where was James Gammon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Gammon's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
