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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~5,274,520
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Norman on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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. 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 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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for James Garner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 21° Scorpio 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.
Placements
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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.
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
James’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersquarePluto1.7° to 1.9° orb
James’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.1° to 2.4° orb
James’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquarePluto2.2° to 3.2° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.1° to 3.9° orb
James’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.9° to 6.5° orb
James’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenussquareSaturn5.6° to 6.9° orb
James’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 4°32′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
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.
⚳ CeresAquarius 28°08′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. James is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAquarius 14°26′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. James is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 22°09′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
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 LilithScorpio 14°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. James is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- 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°
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. ♂ 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
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. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Garner, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
James’s cards
Every card is computed from April 7, 1928, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for James Garner, 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 Q108510, 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.
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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- 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 time was James Garner 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 Garner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the April 7, 1928 birth date.
- What was James Garner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 7, 1928 birth date.
- 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.
