James Goodnight
James Goodnight (born January 6, 1943, Salisbury, United States), aged 83, is an American businessman.
James Goodnight’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with James
James Goodnight’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional 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 1943, James came 1st among boys and 453rd among girls, carried by 80,278 American boys and 272 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
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🪷 Lotus
Crimson · Ivory · Soft pink
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, 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 Goodnight took the Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1981, at 38.
New Hanover High School and North Carolina State University shaped the training.
Rowan Atkinson (1955) and Eddie Redmayne (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New Hanover High School and North Carolina State University
- Awards
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1981)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 8
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of James is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
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 seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show James you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. James is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. James has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Dedicate a star to James Goodnight
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Salisbury 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 Salisbury that night
Computed for 35.67°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Algol stood nearest the zenith over Salisbury at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.2° above the horizon in Perseus.
Of the 108 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 35.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −54.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 31° down.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
Grand trine · Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
James Goodnight's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 6, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
James Goodnight was born on January 6, 1943, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
James Goodnight's birth date, January 6, 1943, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Goodnight's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- James Goodnight combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 25° Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.1° orb
James’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.0° to 1.1° orb
James’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrineSaturn1.5° to 2.7° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.6° to 2.8° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.7° to 2.9° orb
stableVenustrineUranus2.6° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus2.7° to 3.9° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune3.6° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter4.8° to 5.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.4° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 28°51′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 28°30′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 16°20′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 12°05′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.7°
- Eros square Mars 0.8°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.9°
- Chiron square Uranus 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.5°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Kite · Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Grand trine · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Venus, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.0°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Mars biquintile Jupiter 0.7°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.8°
- Mars quintile Neptune 1.5°
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Born in Horse years
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- Oso IghodaroAmerican basketball player
- Brooks BarnhizerAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
Also born on January 6
- Rowan Atkinson1955
- Eddie Redmayne1982
- Irina Shayk1986
- Norman Reedus1969
- Alex Turner1986
- Hilaria Baldwin1984
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Lee Jae-yongSouth Korean business executive
- Stephen A. SchwarzmanAmerican businessman and investor
- Paolo BancheroAmerican basketball player
Other Capricorn Horse charts
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- Jay ChouTaiwanese pop singer, songwriter, and actor
- Dave MatthewsAmerican singer-songwriter
- Andy BiersackAmerican singer
Other Evergreen Diplomats
- Sam WaltonAmerican businessman
- Armie HammerAmerican actor
- Florence WelchBritish singer
- BamBamThai rapper and singer
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Ben SinnottAmerican football player (born 2002)
- Laremy TunsilAmerican football player
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From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
James’s cards
Computed from January 6, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
6 · Guardian♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q92733 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Goodnight.
Quick answers about James Goodnight’s chart
- How old is James Goodnight?
- James Goodnight is 83 years old, born January 6, 1943 in Salisbury, United States.
- What zodiac sign is James Goodnight?
- James Goodnight is a Capricorn: born January 6, 1943, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is James Goodnight's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 6, 1943 birth.
- What is James Goodnight's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Goodnight's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Goodnight's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Goodnight's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Venus; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
