James Kirkwood, Jr.
James Kirkwood, Jr. (born August 22, 1924, Hollywood, United States; died 1989), was an American playwright, author and actor. Kirkwood, is best remembered for P.S. Your Cat Is Dead. Kirkwood,'s honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.
James Kirkwood, Jr.’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Rat, with 
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James Kirkwood, Jr.’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Scholar
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, 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
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
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌿 Fern
Coral · Gold · Forest
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 warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of James is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
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 seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. James creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: James is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. James is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of James leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; James slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where James sits
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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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
James Kirkwood, Jr.'s Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 22, 1924, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Wood Rat
Wood RatFinds the shortcut every time.
James Kirkwood, Jr. was born on August 22, 1924, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 1
Life Path 1Independent to the core.
James Kirkwood, Jr.'s birth date, August 22, 1924, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.
What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Kirkwood, Jr.'s date-only chart is Sun opposition Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Kirkwood, Jr. combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Scholar.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Kirkwood, Jr., so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Taurus or Gemini 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.
stableSunoppositionMars0.5° to 1.7° orb
James’s core identity pulls against their drive from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb
James’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.6° to 2.4° orb
James’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineSaturn2.3° to 2.7° orb
James’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.6° to 5.1° orb
James’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrineUranus4.9° to 5.7° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.2° to 12.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 3.5° to 14.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water 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 ℞Aries 24°24′ (moves 0.02° 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.
⚳ CeresTaurus 9°49′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. James is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosScorpio 22°60′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. James is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 20°15′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. James is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 17°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of James that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Hygiea square Neptune 0.2°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.2°
- Eros square Neptune 2.5°
- Eros trine Uranus 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. ☉ Sun8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury3 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: James is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Kirkwood, Jr., so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
James’s cards
Every card is computed from August 22, 1924, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for James Kirkwood, Jr., 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 Q3110308, 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 Photoplay, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Kirkwood, Jr. 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.
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Quick answers about James Kirkwood, Jr.’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Kirkwood, Jr.?
- James Kirkwood, Jr. was a Leo: born August 22, 1924, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Rat.
- What was James Kirkwood, Jr.'s Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 22, 1924 birth.
- What time was James Kirkwood, Jr. 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 Kirkwood, Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the August 22, 1924 birth date.
- What was James Kirkwood, Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 22, 1924 birth date.
- Where was James Kirkwood, Jr.'s Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Kirkwood, Jr.'s dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
