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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Goat, with 
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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
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James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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James Levine in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for James Levine, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 9° to 23° Pisces 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.
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
James’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.6° to 2.1° orb
James’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus2.5° to 3.7° orb
James’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextilePluto2.9° to 4.2° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineMars3.1° to 3.4° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableUranustrineNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb
James’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.3° to 7.4° orb
James’s growth and depths act as one.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 26°12′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has James performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresGemini 1°46′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has James feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosLeo 6°13′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has James loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaLeo 19°25′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has James at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 3°20′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. James is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- 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°
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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: James is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.6°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Levine, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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James’s cards
Every card is computed from June 23, 1943, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for James Levine, 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 Q336388, 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 Ralph Daily, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Levine 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Goat.
- 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 time was James Levine 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 Levine's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the June 23, 1943 birth date.
- What was James Levine's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 23, 1943 birth date.
- 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.
