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, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Ox, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with James
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
In 1973, 42,836 American boys and 316 girls were registered James — 4th among boys and 532nd among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
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
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 record
What sets James apart
James Marsden was taught at Putnam City North High School and Oklahoma State University.
James Marsden was 20 when the work began in 1993.
Ronaldo (1976) and James Gandolfini (1961) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Putnam City North High School and Oklahoma State University
- Instruments
- voice
- Working from
- 1993
- Wikipedia editions
- 60
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. Working below.
Where James sits
Six lines
James’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Marsden
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Stillwater 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 Stillwater that night
Computed for 36.11°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Sulafat stood nearest the zenith over Stillwater at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.8° above the horizon in Lyra.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
Stillwater sits at 36.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −53.9° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 57% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 18° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Stillwater, United States
- Lives in
- Austin
Wikidata records Austin as James Marsden's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Marsden: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Saturn · T-square onto Jupiter · 1 unaspected planet
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 →If you only read one paragraph
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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 2 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Gemini 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
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
stableVenusoppositionMars2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.5° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.7° to 4.3° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn3.7° to 5.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.7° to 5.3° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter5.2° to 6.8° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 19°38′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 12°46′ (moves 0.26° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra or Scorpio during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 13°54′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
James’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in James’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like James
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Born in United States
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More charts like James’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Shania TwainCanadian country music singer and songwriter
- Chris TuckerAmerican actor and comedian
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Born in Ox years
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- David FosterCanadian musician, record producer, songwriter
- Dustin HoffmanAmerican actor (born 1937)
Also born on September 18
- Ronaldo1976
- James Gandolfini1961
- Jada Pinkett Smith1971
- Jason Sudeikis1975
- Serge Ibaka1989
- Lance Armstrong1971
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Joshua LederbergAmerican molecular biologist
- John James Rickard MacleodNobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
- Russell A. HulseAmerican astronomer
Other Virgo Ox charts
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- Frederick SoddyEnglish radiochemist
- Hugh David PolitzerAmerican physicist
- Charles Brenton HugginsAmerican physiologist
Other Radiant Healers
- Rosie Huntington-WhiteleyBritish model
- KhaledAlgerian musician
- Salif KeitaMalian singer-songwriter, referred to as the "Golden Voice of Africa"
- Melissa RauchAmerican actress, model, and comedian
Famous people with Life Path 2
- Robert HainseyAmerican football player
- Amani HookerAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Chase McLaughlinAmerican football player (born 1996)
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James’s cards
Computed from September 18, 1973. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The High PriestessAsterNym identity card
The Radiant HealerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
2 · Diplomat☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q485901 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Marsden.
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.
- 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 is James Marsden's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Marsden's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
