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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Pig, with 
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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.
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James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where James sits
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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.
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James Gunn in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for James Gunn, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Gemini or Cancer 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.
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
James’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto1.9° to 3.8° orb
James’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune2.9° orb
James’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquarePluto2.9° to 3.0° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.6° to 5.4° orb
James’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.8° to 6.8° orb
James’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsquareSaturn4.9° to 5.9° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrineJupiter5.4° to 6.6° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableUranustrinePluto6.4° to 6.5° orb
James’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 20°59′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: James may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 11°12′ (moves 0.18° 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.
♡ ErosTaurus 8°58′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has James wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 15°42′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has James needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 1°39′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. James is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- 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°
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. ☽ 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
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: James is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
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 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 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.
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Gunn, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
James’s cards
Every card is computed from July 12, 1923, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for James Gunn, 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 Q715505, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Pig.
- 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 time was James Gunn 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 Gunn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the July 12, 1923 birth date.
- What was James Gunn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 12, 1923 birth date.
- 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.
