James Marsden
James Marsden (born September 18, 1973, Stillwater, United States), aged 53, is an American actor. Notable films include Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, X-Men and Modern Family.
James Marsden’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Ox, with 
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James Marsden’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 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 2, 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
US Social Security Administration public records
James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Lilac · Soft pink
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 notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of James is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, James processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What James needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with James even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
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 steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. James is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means James is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where James sits
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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 may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
James Marsden's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 18, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Water Ox
Water OxSays little. Finishes everything.
James Marsden was born on September 18, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 2
Life Path 2Quiet power, real power.
James Marsden's birth date, September 18, 1973, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Marsden's date-only chart is Saturn square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- James Marsden 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 Marsden, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Gemini 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.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.1° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.0° orb
James’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.5° orb
James’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.7° to 2.8° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionMars2.5° to 3.6° orb
James’s affections pull against their drive from across the wheel.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.5° orb
James’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.7° to 4.3° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenussquareJupiter3.2° to 4.4° orb
James’s affections grind against their growth.
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.7° to 5.2° orb
James’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.7° to 5.3° orb
James’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.2° to 6.8° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareJupiter6.8° orb
James’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
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 ℞Aries 19°38′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: James may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 12°46′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. James is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLibra or Scorpio during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. James is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 13°54′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. James is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. James is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.4°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.7°
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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 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.
T-square onto Jupiter · Venus, Mars, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Yod onto Saturn · Jupiter, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
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.
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Mars 0.8°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 1.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.6°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.7°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Marsden, 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 September 18, 1973, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for James Marsden, 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 Q485901, 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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Marsden at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram 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.
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Quick answers about James Marsden’s chart
- How old is James Marsden?
- James Marsden is 53 years old, born September 18, 1973 in Stillwater, United States.
- What zodiac sign is James Marsden?
- James Marsden is a Virgo: born September 18, 1973, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Ox.
- What is James Marsden's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 18, 1973 birth.
- What time was James Marsden 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 is James Marsden's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the September 18, 1973 birth date.
- What is James Marsden's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 18, 1973 birth date.
- Where is James Marsden's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Marsden's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
