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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with James
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
James ranked 4th among boys and 425th among girls in 1924, the year of this birth, with 52,942 American boys and 274 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
9
Soul Urge · meaning
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
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 record
What sets James apart
Ray Bradbury (1920) and Dua Lipa (1995) 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 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. Working below.
Where James sits
Six lines
James’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Kirkwood, Jr.
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hollywood 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 Hollywood that night
Computed for 34.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hollywood at 9 p.m. that evening: Sulafat of Lyra, within 3.6° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 82 catalog stars were up in all.
From 34.1°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 Hollywood at all: they sit past the −55.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 42% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 28° down.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 planets at a critical degree · 1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde
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 →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.
What Leo means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 1 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 10° Taurus or Gemini 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
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
stableMercuryoppositionUranus4.6° to 5.1° orb
stableVenustrineUranus4.9° to 5.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 24°24′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 9°49′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 22°60′ (moves 0.49° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 20°15′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 17°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
James’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in James’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Rat years
- Frédéric Joliot-CurieFrench scientist
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- Elizabeth BlackburnAustralian-American biological researcher
Also born on August 22
- Ray Bradbury1920
- Dua Lipa1995
- Tori Amos1963
- Kristen Wiig1973
- Layne Staley1967
- Andrew Wilson1964
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- José Raul RangelMexican footballer (born 2000)
- Renato VeigaPortuguese footballer (born 2003)
- Chemsdine TalbiMoroccan footballer
Other Leo Rat charts
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- Robert RedfordAmerican actor and director
- Gina RodriguezAmerican actress
- Taylor SchillingAmerican actress
Other Tidal Scholars
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- Marlon JacksonAmerican singer and member of The Jackson 5
- Colin JostAmerican comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1982)
- Evangeline LillyCanadian actress (born 1979)
Famous people with Life Path 1
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- Keely HodgkinsonEnglish athlete specialising in the 800 metres, born 2002
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
James’s cards
Computed from August 22, 1924. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3110308 (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.
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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.
- 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 was James Kirkwood, Jr.'s Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Kirkwood, Jr.'s Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
