James Lapine
James Lapine (born January 10, 1949, Mansfield, United States), aged 77, is an American stage director and librettist. (born 1949). Lapine's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Guggenheim Fellowship.
James Lapine’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with James
James Lapine’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Visionary
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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 1st among boys and 506th among girls in 1949, the year of this birth, with 86,858 American boys and 257 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
3
Personality · bright, quick
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
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
The record
What sets James apart
Robert Wilson (1936) and Jemaine Clement (1974) 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 playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of James is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with James and watch them fall for you again.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. James creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. James goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Lapine
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Mansfield 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 Mansfield that night
Computed for 40.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Mansfield was Menkib, in Perseus, 84.8° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Mansfield on any night.
The Moon, 83% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 40° below the horizon.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Water 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.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunClimbs. Then climbs again.
James Lapine's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 10, 1949, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
James Lapine was born on January 10, 1949, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
James Lapine's birth date, January 10, 1949, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Lapine's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Air emphasis, with four planets in each, and none in Water.
- James Lapine combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Visionary.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 20° to 2° 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
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.3° to 1.6° orb
James’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
James’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars1.7° to 2.4° orb
James’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersquareNeptune2.4° to 2.7° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.5° to 5.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter7.1° to 7.9° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.5° to 12.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 2.1° to 14.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.7° to 15.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 4.2° to 17.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 4.5° to 15.9° depending on birth time
possibleJupitertrineSaturnorb from 6.8° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Water signs.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 5°11′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 23°37′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 10°48′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 16°21′
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 19°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.5°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.9°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 1.6°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
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.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.5°
- Venus quintile Neptune 0.5°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.0°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 1.0°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.1°
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Also born on January 10
- Robert Wilson1936
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
James’s cards
Computed from January 10, 1949. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Gilded VisionaryWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6137781 (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 Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Lapine at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Lapine.
Quick answers about James Lapine’s chart
- How old is James Lapine?
- James Lapine is 77 years old, born January 10, 1949 in Mansfield, United States.
- What zodiac sign is James Lapine?
- James Lapine is a Capricorn: born January 10, 1949, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is James Lapine's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 10, 1949 birth.
- What is James Lapine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Lapine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Lapine's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Lapine's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Jupiter). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
