James Gunn
James Gunn (born July 12, 1923, Kansas City, United States; died 2020), was an American science fiction author. Gunn is best remembered for Star Bridge. Gunn's honours include Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
James Gunn’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with James
James Gunn’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
The SSA recorded 50,462 American boys and 280 girls named James in 1923: 4th among boys and 401st among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
9
Soul Urge · meaning
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
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
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🪷 Lotus
Sky blue · Pearl · Soft pink
The record
What sets James apart
Pablo Neruda (1904) and Vinícius Júnior (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James feels the room before entering it. The core of James is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for James, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. James gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. James creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: James is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. James is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means James does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Gunn
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kansas City 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 Kansas City that night
Computed for 39.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Kansas City at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.6° above the horizon in Boötes.
Of the 81 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Kansas City sits at 39.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −51.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 3° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
5-planet stellium in Cancer · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets
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.
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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
James Gunn's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 12, 1923, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Pig
Water PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
James Gunn was born on July 12, 1923, which falls in a Water Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
James Gunn's birth date, July 12, 1923, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Gunn's date-only chart is Mercury trine Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Gunn combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 2.0° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.1° to 6.2° orb
James’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineUranus1.4° to 2.4° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.8° to 1.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto1.9° to 3.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.9° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.6° to 5.4° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.8° to 6.8° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn4.9° to 5.9° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter5.4° to 6.6° orb
stableUranustrinePluto6.4° to 6.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water8 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 20°59′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 11°12′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 8°58′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 15°42′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 1°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.4°
- Chiron square Sun 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.7°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.1°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.7°
James’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
4 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, PlutoThree 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.
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.2°
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Born in United States
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Fellow Cancer suns
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Born in Pig years
- Ellen BarryAmerican journalist
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- Elizabeth BishopAmerican poet
Also born on July 12
- Pablo Neruda1904
- Vinícius Júnior2000
- Tupou VI of Tonga1959
- Phoebe Tonkin1989
- Hilary Knight1989
- Bill Cosby1937
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Amanda LearFrench singer, actress, television presenter
- Jennifer TillyAmerican actress
- Brittney GrinerAmerican basketball player
Other Cancer Pig charts
- Corliss Waitmanfootball player (born 1995)
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- Alyssa LynchCanadian actress
- Romee StrijdDutch model
Other Radiant Visionarys
- Germaine GreerAustralian writer and public intellectual
- Aleister CrowleyEnglish occultist
- Shawn MendesCanadian singer
- Claire HoltAustralian actress
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Emma StoneAmerican actress and producer
- Taylor LautnerAmerican actor
- Keira KnightleyBritish actress
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
James’s cards
Computed from July 12, 1923. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q715505 (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 James Gunn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Gunn 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 Gunn.
Quick answers about James Gunn’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Gunn?
- James Gunn was a Cancer: born July 12, 1923, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was James Gunn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 12, 1923 birth.
- What was James Gunn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Gunn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Gunn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Gunn's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
