James Gandolfini
James Gandolfini (born September 18, 1961, Westwood, United States, 10:21; died 2013), was an American actor. Notable films include The Sopranos, Zero Dark Thirty and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Gandolfini's honours include Golden Globe Awards, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and New Jersey Hall of Fame.
James Gandolfini’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Metal Ox, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with James
James Gandolfini’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
Of the names registered in 1961, James came 4th among boys and 600th among girls, carried by 75,969 American boys and 282 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
8 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
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 1961, 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 Gandolfini took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2000, at 39.
The classrooms behind this chart: Park Ridge High School and Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
The working life starts in 1982, at 21.
Cause of death is recorded as cardiac arrest.
James Gandolfini was married Marcy Wudarski and Deborah Lin and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for James Gandolfini: Park Ridge High School alumni, People from Park Ridge, New Jersey and Male actors from Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
Ronaldo (1976) and Jada Pinkett Smith (1971) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Park Ridge High School, Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and Rutgers University
- Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (2000), Golden Globe Awards (2000) and New Jersey Hall of Fame (2014)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
- Working from
- 1982
- Cause of death
- cardiac arrest
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 93
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of James is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, James is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What James needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore James openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. James builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: James is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. James is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. James fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Westwood on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Westwood at 10:21, James Gandolfini’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Westwood that night
Computed for 40.99°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Westwood was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 83.3° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Westwood at all: they sit past the −49.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at first quarter, 58% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun -38° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Westwood, United States
The death is recorded at Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome in 2013.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What James's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Strategist 天機, The Elder 天梁 in 辰
Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Relationships
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · A bowl chart
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 →James Gandolfini at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
James Gandolfini's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What Virgo means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
James Gandolfini was born on September 18, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
James Gandolfini's birth date, September 18, 1961, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in James Gandolfini's timed chart: Venus in the 10th house, Uranus in the 10th house and Neptune in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in James Gandolfini's timed chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Moon, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- James Gandolfini combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
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
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.0° orb
James’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 1.5° orb
James’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SuntrineJupiterapplying · 1.9° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
SuntrineSaturnseparating · 2.1° orb
MarssquareSaturnapplying · 2.2° orb
VenussextileMarsseparating · 2.7° orb
MoontrinePlutoapplying · 3.5° orb
MercurysquareSaturnapplying · 3.7° orb
VenusconjunctionUranusapplying · 4.1° orb
JupiterconjunctionSaturnapplying · 4.1° orb
MercurysextileVenusapplying · 4.2° orb
MoonsextileNeptuneapplying · 4.5° orb
MarssquareJupiterapplying · 6.2° orb
MoontrineUranusseparating · 7.0° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 3°13′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 26°49′ · House 7
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 9°42′ · House 2
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 3°17′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 25°30′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.5°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.2°
- Eros square Pluto 1.2°
- Ceres trine Sun 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 1.6°
- Chiron sextile Moon 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.5°
- Ceres square Venus 2.9°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn11 pts
rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Moon, Jupiter, SaturnThree 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.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.2°
- Uranus quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.5°
James’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 11 | Neptune | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 3 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 3 | Moon, Jupiter, Saturn | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 10 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 1 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aries | Mars in Libra, house 12 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Taurus | Venus in Leo, house 10 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Gemini | Mercury in Libra, house 12 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Cancer | Moon in Capricorn, house 3 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Leo | Sun in Virgo, house 11 | Venus, Uranus | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Virgo | Mercury in Libra, house 12 | Sun, Pluto | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Libra | Venus in Leo, house 10 | Mercury, Mars | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
James’s cards
Computed from September 18, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q308722 (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 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Gandolfini at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Gandolfini.
Quick answers about James Gandolfini’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Gandolfini?
- James Gandolfini was a Virgo: born September 18, 1961, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
- What was James Gandolfini's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 18, 1961 birth.
- What time was James Gandolfini born?
- 10:21 local time in Westwood, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was James Gandolfini's rising sign?
- Scorpio rising, calculated from the documented 10:21 birth time in Westwood, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall was James Gandolfini?
- James Gandolfini was 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was James Gandolfini's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Gandolfini's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 3°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Gandolfini's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 25°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Gandolfini's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Moon sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Moon, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
