James Madison
James Madison (born March 16, 1751, Port Conway, United States; died 1836), was President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison held office as Delegate to the United States Constitutional Convention and member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Madison's honours include Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
James Madison’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Metal Goat, with 
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James Madison’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Healer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, 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
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James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets James apart
Mark Carney (1965) and Alexandra Daddario (1986) 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 everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of James is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, James feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What James needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. James creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. James is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means James does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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James Madison in 15 seconds
Pisces Sun
Pisces SunFeels it all, owns none of it.
James Madison's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 16, 1751, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Metal Goat
Metal GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
James Madison was born on March 16, 1751, which falls in a Metal 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 6
Life Path 6Everyone's person. Never off duty.
James Madison's birth date, March 16, 1751, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Madison's date-only chart is Venus square Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- James Madison combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Healer.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Madison, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Scorpio 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.
stableVenussquareMars0.7° to 1.3° orb
James’s affections grind against their drive.
stableSuntrineNeptune0.9° to 1.9° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus1.3° to 2.4° orb
James’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineSaturn2.4° to 3.7° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrinePluto3.1° to 4.3° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrineJupiter5.2° to 5.6° orb
James’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
James’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 3.2° to 14.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 4.1° to 15.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 4.1° to 15.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 5.3° to 16.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 21°09′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Scorpio is read as a wound around trust and loss. The tradition has James carrying an unusual tolerance for what other people cannot look at.
⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 3°35′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Leo is read as nurture through encouragement and applause. James is read as someone who grows people by making them feel seen.
♡ ErosAries 27°06′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. James is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaPisces 22°13′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has James needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 9°58′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. James is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 square Neptune 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.5°
- Eros sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.5°
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. ♆ Neptune5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: James is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Uranus 0.6°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.3°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 1.4°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 1.6°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Madison, 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 March 16, 1751, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for James Madison, 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 Q11813, 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 John Vanderlyn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Madison at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about James Madison’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Madison?
- James Madison was a Pisces: born March 16, 1751, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Goat.
- What was James Madison's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 16, 1751 birth.
- What time was James Madison 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.
- How tall was James Madison?
- James Madison was 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was James Madison's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the March 16, 1751 birth date.
- What was James Madison's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 21°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 16, 1751 birth date.
- Where was James Madison's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Madison's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
