James Garner
James Garner (born April 7, 1928, Norman, United States; died 2014), was an American film and actor. Garner's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor and Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame.
James Garner’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with James
James Garner’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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 1928, James came 3rd among boys and 319th among girls, carried by 52,752 American boys and 427 girls.
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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
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
4 · 1 · 6 · 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 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1928, 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 Garner took the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actor in 1957, at 29.
The classrooms behind this chart: Norman High School and Hollywood High School.
The working life starts in 1955, at 27.
Cause of death is recorded as myocardial infarction; the grave is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for James Garner: Methodists from California, California National Guard personnel and Hollywood High School alumni.
Jackie Chan (1954) and Russell Crowe (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Norman High School, Hollywood High School and University of Oklahoma
- Awards
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (2005), Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actor (1957) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (1977)
- Nominated for
- TCA Career Achievement Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
- Working from
- 1955
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 62
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 feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What James needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with James, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. James creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. James is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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 night
Dedicate a star to James Garner
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Norman 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 Norman that night
Computed for 35.22°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Norman was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 79.3° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 35.2°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −54.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Norman on any night.
The Moon, 92% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 24° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Norman, United States
- Lived in
- Los Angeles · Norman
Wikidata records Los Angeles and Norman as James Garner's home, Norman among them.
The death is recorded at Brentwood, Los Angeles in 2014.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Garner: 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
55 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aries · 1 unaspected planet · Only two elements
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 →Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
James Garner's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 7, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
James Garner was born on April 7, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
James Garner's birth date, April 7, 1928, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Garner's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with five planets in each, and none in Earth and Air.
- James Garner combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 21° Scorpio 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
stableMoontrinePluto0.1° to 7.0° orb
James’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.4° to 0.7° orb
James’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.5° to 1.2° orb
James’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSuntrineSaturn0.9° to 1.9° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto1.7° to 1.9° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.1° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsquarePluto2.2° to 3.2° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.1° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.9° to 6.5° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn5.6° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 3.6° to 13.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 4.0° to 14.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water5 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth or Air signs.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 4°32′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 28°08′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 14°26′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 22°09′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.5°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 1.5°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 2.0°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.4°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 2.6°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Jupiter, 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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Mars quintile Saturn 0.9°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 1.3°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.9°
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Fellow Aries suns
- Robert LaschAmerican journalist
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- Howard Mumford JonesU.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English
Born in Dragon years
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Also born on April 7
- Jackie Chan1954
- Russell Crowe1964
- MacKenzie Scott1970
- Saad Lamjarred1985
- Candace Cameron Bure1976
- Bundee Aki1990
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Carter RunyonAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Eddy PineiroAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Upton StoutAmerican football player (born 2002)
Other Aries Dragon charts
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- Treylon BurksAmerican football wide receiver
- Quan MartinAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Andre CiscoAmerican football defensive back
Other Radiant Pioneers
- Kingston FlemingsAmerican basketball player (born 2007)
- Tyus JonesAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Yanic NiederhäuserSwiss basketball player (born 2003)
- Will RichardAmerican basketball player
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Minnie DriverBritish-American actress (born 1970)
- James DentonAmerican actor
- Gabby DouglasAmerican gymnast
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
James’s cards
Computed from April 7, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
4 · Architect♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q108510 (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.
Portrait by Warner Brothers Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Garner 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 Garner.
Quick answers about James Garner’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Garner?
- James Garner was an Aries: born April 7, 1928, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was James Garner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 7, 1928 birth.
- What was James Garner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Garner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Garner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Garner's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
