James Levine
James Levine (born June 23, 1943, Cincinnati, United States; died 2021), was an American conductor and pianist. Levine's honours include Kennedy Center Honors, National Medal of Arts and Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award.
James Levine’s zodiac sign was Cancer, Chinese zodiac was Water Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with James
James Levine’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Strategist
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) × cardinal 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
Of the names registered in 1943, James came 1st among boys and 453rd among girls, carried by 80,278 American boys and 272 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
7
Soul Urge · understanding
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
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 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 💠 Water Lily
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
The record
What sets James apart
Alan Turing (1912) and Zinedine Zidane (1972) 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 feels the room before entering it. The core of James is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for James, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, James is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What James needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.
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 keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. James creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means James gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
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 run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Levine
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati that night
Computed for 39.10°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Cincinnati at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.4° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
Of the 87 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 39.1°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Cincinnati at all: they sit past the −50.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -1° below the horizon, Moon down and 59% lit at last quarter.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
32 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunMoody, and loyal past reason.
James Levine's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 23, 1943, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
James Levine was born on June 23, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
James Levine's birth date, June 23, 1943, 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 Levine's date-only chart is Uranus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Levine combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Strategist.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Pisces 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
stableUranussextilePluto0.4° orb
James’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.7° to 1.0° orb
James’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileSaturn1.0° to 1.9° orb
James’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.5° to 2.5° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn1.6° to 2.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.5° to 3.7° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto2.9° to 4.2° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.1° to 3.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.3° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.4° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 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.
⚷ ChironLeo 26°12′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 1°46′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 6°13′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 19°25′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.0°
- Eros conjunction Pluto 0.4°
- Hygiea trine Mars 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Ceres trine Neptune 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Venus 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.9°
James’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Jupiter
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
in its own sign, Aries; 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.6°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.3°
More people like James
Other conductors
- Zubin Mehta1936
- Seiji Ozawa1935
- Leon Fleisher1928
- Merce Cunningham1919
- Eugene Ormandy1899
Born in United States
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- Christopher WalkenAmerican actor
- James Alan McPhersonAmerican short story writer and essayist
- Michael BennettAmerican choreographer
- Gloria GaynorAmerican singer
- Robert LefkowitzAmerican physician and biochemist
More charts like James’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Shirley Ann GrauAmerican writer
- Susan GlaspellAmerican writer
- John StrohmeyerAmerican journalist
Born in Goat years
- William TellAmerican rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist
- Kimberly StewartAmerican model
- Sherri ShepherdAmerican actress, comedian, author and television personality
Also born on June 23
- Alan Turing1912
- Zinedine Zidane1972
- Melissa Rauch1980
- Lee Jae-yong1968
- Clarence Thomas1948
- Selma Blair1972
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Leah McSweeneyAmerican fashion designer
- Heidi MontagAmerican television personality
- Denis LearyAmerican actor and comedian (born 1957)
Other Cancer Goat charts
- George WellerAmerican journalist and writer
- Oscar Hammerstein IIAmerican librettist, lyricist, theatrical producer, and director of musicals
- Joseph EllisAmerican historian (born 1943)
- David C. TurnleyAmerican photographer
Other Tidal Strategists
- Ayn RandRussian-born American writer and public philosopher
- Paul DiracBritish theoretical physicist
- Ozzy OsbourneEnglish musician and television personality
- Prince Harry, Duke of SussexYounger son of Charles III of the United Kingdom and Diana, Princess of Wales
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Keri HilsonAmerican R&B singer
- Frank GiffordAmerican football player, television sportscaster
- Jared FollowillAmerican bassist and guitarist
From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
James’s cards
Computed from June 23, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Tidal StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q336388 (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 Ralph Daily, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Levine at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Levine.
Quick answers about James Levine’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Levine?
- James Levine was a Cancer: born June 23, 1943, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What was James Levine's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 23, 1943 birth.
- What was James Levine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Levine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Levine's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Levine's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
