James Kelman
James Kelman (born June 9, 1946, Glasgow, United Kingdom), aged 80, is a Scottish writer. Kelman is best known for A Disaffection. Kelman's honours include Booker Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Cheltenham Prize for Literature.
James Kelman’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dog, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dog, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with James
James Kelman’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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
In 1946, 87,438 American boys and 250 girls were registered James — 1st among boys and 493rd among girls on the SSA's list that 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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
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
8 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌺 Poppy
Rose pink · Lilac · Flame orange
The record
What sets James apart
Johnny Depp (1963) and Natalie Portman (1981) 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 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.
The vibe
Underneath, James cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What James needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
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 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 loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. James is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means James fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 Kelman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Glasgow 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 Glasgow that night
Computed for 55.86°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Glasgow at 9 p.m. that evening: Alioth of Ursa Major, within 0.5° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 91 catalog stars were up in all.
At 55.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −34.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waxing gibbous, 80% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun -6° down.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Gemini · A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
James Kelman's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 9, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Dog
Fire DogGuards the gate all night.
James Kelman was born on June 9, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
James Kelman's birth date, June 9, 1946, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Kelman's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Kelman combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Libra 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
stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 1.0° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableSunconjunctionUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
James’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.
stableMoonsquareVenus0.1° to 5.8° orb
James’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupitertrineUranus0.1° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter1.5° to 2.7° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn3.1° to 4.2° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.7° to 5.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 14°55′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 13°15′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 2°51′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 19°52′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 3°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Venus 0.3°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.3°
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 2.4°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 2.6°
- Chiron trine Uranus 2.7°
James’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
- Saturn quintile Neptune 0.6°
- Mars semi-sextile Saturn 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 2.0°
More people like James
Other screenwriters
- Steve Martin1945
- Glenn Close1947
- Peter Weir1944
- Dan O'Bannon1946
- Michael Cristofer1945
- Salman Rushdie1947
Born in United Kingdom
- Alan RickmanBritish actor and director
- Edward JamesBritish academic
- Pete TownshendBritish musician
- David BowieEnglish musician and actor
- John Paul JonesBritish bassist
- Sam NeillNew Zealand actor
More charts like James’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- James Clerk MaxwellScottish physicist
- Rafael NadalSpanish tennis player
- Novak DjokovicSerbian tennis player
Born in Dog years
- Clive CalderSouth African-born British businessman
- Fernando Moreira SallesBrazilian businessman
- Paul GauselmannGerman businessman
Also born on June 9
- Johnny Depp1963
- Natalie Portman1981
- Michael J. Fox1961
- Zack Bia1996
- Matt Bellamy1978
- Laurie Hernandez2000
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Stephen A. SchwarzmanAmerican businessman and investor
- Paolo BancheroAmerican basketball player
- Cooper FlaggAmerican basketball player
Other Gemini Dog charts
- Ivana BaqueroSpanish actress and model
- Paulette GoddardAmerican actress
- R. MadhavanIndian actor, film director, and producer
- Paolo SorrentinoItalian film director and screenwriter (born 1970)
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- MinaJapanese singer
- Tolu SmithAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Max ChristieAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Taj GibsonAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Isabel AllendeChilean writer
- Hedy Lamarr
- Jesse OwensAmerican track and field athlete
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
James’s cards
Computed from June 9, 1946. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q720806 (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 librairie mollat, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Kelman at Wikipedia 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 Kelman.
Quick answers about James Kelman’s chart
- How old is James Kelman?
- James Kelman is 80 years old, born June 9, 1946 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is James Kelman?
- James Kelman is a Gemini: born June 9, 1946, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is James Kelman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 9, 1946 birth.
- What is James Kelman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Kelman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Kelman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Kelman's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
