James H. Patton Jr.
James H. Patton Jr. (born June 14, 1919, College Grove, United States; died 1999), was an American Kentucky poet laureate. Patton served as poet laureate.
James H. Patton Jr.’s zodiac sign was Gemini, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with James
James H. Patton Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Explorer
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
James ranked 3rd among boys and 482nd among girls in 1919, the year of this birth, with 42,392 American boys and 192 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
22
Personality · quietly formidable
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
4 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Lilac · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1919, 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
Training came by way of Western Kentucky University.
The same date carries Gene Barry. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Western Kentucky University
- Languages
- American English
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. James needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore James openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
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 creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. 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.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. James scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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 H. Patton Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above College Grove 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 College Grove that night
Computed for 35.79°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at College Grove at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 10.4° of the exact zenith.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 35.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from College Grove at all: they sit past the −54.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at full moon, 98% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- College Grove, United States
- Lived in
- Franklin · College Grove
Wikidata records Franklin and College Grove as James H. Patton Jr.'s home, College Grove among them.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James H. Patton Jr.: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Gemini · 2 unaspected planets · A bowl chart
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 →The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
James H. Patton Jr.'s Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 14, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatGentle hands, strong opinions.
James H. Patton Jr. was born on June 14, 1919, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Plans, then plans the plan.
James H. Patton Jr.'s birth date, June 14, 1919, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James H. Patton Jr.'s date-only chart is Venus conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- James H. Patton Jr. combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Explorer.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMoonoppositionPluto0.0° to 7.9° orb
James’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 1.2° orb
James’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.6° to 1.5° orb
James’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.8° to 3.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.2° to 4.5° orb
stableUranustrinePluto4.1° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus4.2° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 2.6° to 12.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 4.4° to 16.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 5.8° to 17.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 6°42′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 29°32′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 5°19′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 29°32′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 15°46′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Venus 0.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 0.7°
- Chiron square Pluto 0.9°
- Eros opposition Venus 1.4°
- Eros opposition Neptune 2.1°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.1°
James’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
3. ☽ Moon3 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.6°
Born the same day as James
Gene Barry was born on June 14, 1919 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from College Grove, at 35.8°N, nothing below −54.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like James
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Born in Goat years
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Also born on June 14
- Che Guevara1928
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Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oKenyan writer
- Brendan FraserCanadian-American actor
- JamalaUkrainian singer
Other Gemini Goat charts
- Ben Stokescricketer (born 1991)
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- Louis PartridgeBritish actor (born 2003)
- Malcolm McDowellBritish actor (born 1943)
Other Radiant Explorers
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Famous people with Life Path 4
- Clint EastwoodAmerican actor and film director
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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 June 14, 1919. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant ExplorerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
4 · Architect☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q141190799 (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 H. Patton Jr..
Quick answers about James H. Patton Jr.’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James H. Patton Jr.?
- James H. Patton Jr. was a Gemini: born June 14, 1919, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What was James H. Patton Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 14, 1919 birth.
- What was James H. Patton Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What was James H. Patton Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James H. Patton Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James H. Patton Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
