James Gammon
James Gammon (born April 20, 1940, Newman, United States; died 2010), was an American actor.
James Gammon’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with James
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
James ranked 1st among boys and 424th among girls in 1940, the year of this birth, with 62,481 American boys and 259 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, 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
The working life starts in 1966, at 26.
Cause of death is recorded as liver cancer.
Wikipedia's editors put James Gammon under People from Costa Mesa, California, Deaths from liver cancer in California and Male actors from Illinois.
Jessica Lange (1949) and Miranda Kerr (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
- Working from
- 1966
- Cause of death
- liver cancer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 21
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. Working below.
Where James sits
Six lines
James’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
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 Gammon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newman on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Newman that night
Computed for 39.80°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Newman was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 81.2° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 39.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −50.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Newman on any night.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 25° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Newman, United States
The death is recorded at Costa Mesa, Orange County in 2010.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Gammon: 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
61 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Taurus · A bowl chart · 2 planets 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Dragon means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 17° Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
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
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
stableSaturnsquarePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars3.4° to 3.7° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 6.9° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto6.5° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 14°50′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 6°29′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 7°17′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 15°55′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 24°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Venus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.0°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.6°
- Eros square Mercury 2.8°
James’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in James’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like James
Other actors
- 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
From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
James’s cards
Computed from April 20, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q978184 (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.
The same James Gammon at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was James Gammon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Gammon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
