James Goodnight
James Goodnight (born January 6, 1943, Salisbury, United States), aged 83, is an American businessman.
James Goodnight’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Horse, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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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. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
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. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for James Goodnight, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 25° Capricorn 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.
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
James’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMercurytrineNeptune1.7° to 2.9° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenustrineUranus2.6° to 3.9° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineUranus2.7° to 3.9° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrineNeptune3.6° to 4.9° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturntrineNeptune4.4° orb
James’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
James’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionJupiter4.8° to 5.9° orb
James’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.4° orb
James’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 28°51′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has James performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresPisces 28°30′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: James is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosPisces 16°20′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. James is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 12°05′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has James at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 14°37′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has James guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- 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°
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. ♄ 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
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: James is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Goodnight, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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James’s cards
Every card is computed from January 6, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for James Goodnight, 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 Q92733, 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.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Horse.
- 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 time was James Goodnight 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 is James Goodnight's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the January 6, 1943 birth date.
- What is James Goodnight's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 6, 1943 birth date.
- 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.
