James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns (born August 3, 1918, Melrose, United States; died 2014), was an American historian and political scientist. Burns served as chairperson. Burns's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History, National Book Award and Francis Parkman Prize.
James MacGregor Burns’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Horse, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Horse, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with James
James MacGregor Burns’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
The SSA recorded 42,115 American boys and 212 girls named James in 1918: 3rd among boys and 459th among girls for the year.
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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The record
What sets James apart
Tom Brady (1977) and Martha Stewart (1941) 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 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 free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. James is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. James fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 MacGregor Burns
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Melrose 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 Melrose that night
Computed for 42.46°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Melrose at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 10.8° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 84 catalog stars were up in all.
Melrose sits at 42.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −47.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Melrose on any night.
The Moon, 8% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 9° below the horizon.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Leo
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 →James MacGregor Burns at a glance
Leo Sun
Leo SunGenerous with the spotlight, mostly.
James MacGregor Burns's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 3, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
James MacGregor Burns was born on August 3, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
James MacGregor Burns's birth date, August 3, 1918, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James MacGregor Burns' date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Pluto, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- James MacGregor Burns combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 9° Gemini or Cancer 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
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto1.2° to 1.4° orb
James’s growth and depths act as one.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.3° to 2.3° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.7° to 3.5° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.0° to 4.0° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus4.0° to 4.2° orb
stableMarstrineUranus4.3° to 4.9° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn4.5° to 5.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionPluto5.3° to 6.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn6.2° to 7.0° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter6.7° to 7.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable1 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 3°09′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Sagittarius 26°12′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 13°43′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 24°05′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 10°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.2°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.4°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.9°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 2.3°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.3°
- Chiron square Pluto 2.8°
James’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Venus, Jupiter, Pluto
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; 3 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Sun quintile Mars 0.7°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.9°
- Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
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Born in Horse years
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Also born on August 3
- Tom Brady1977
- Martha Stewart1941
- Karlie Kloss1992
- Jourdan Dunn1990
- Mamie Gummer1983
- Chandler Kinney2000
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Ashley GrahamAmerican model
- Holger RuneDanish tennis player
- Cassie VenturaAmerican singer, dancer, actress, and model
Other Leo Horse charts
- Marisa MillerAmerican model
- Al RokerAmerican weather presenter, journalist, television personality, and author (born 1954)
- Kane WilliamsonNew Zealand cricketer
- John HustonAmerican film director, screenwriter, and actor
Other Tidal Guardians
- Kalia DavisAmerican football defensive tackle
- Jack CochraneAmerican football player (born 1999)
- JD BertrandAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Christian Rozeboomfootball player (born 1997)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Alan AldaAmerican actor (born 1936)
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
James’s cards
Computed from August 3, 1918. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
3 · Storyteller☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1529607 (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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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James MacGregor Burns.
Quick answers about James MacGregor Burns’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James MacGregor Burns?
- James MacGregor Burns was a Leo: born August 3, 1918, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was James MacGregor Burns's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 3, 1918 birth.
- What was James MacGregor Burns's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was James MacGregor Burns's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 3°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James MacGregor Burns's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James MacGregor Burns's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
