James Mason
James Mason (born May 15, 1909, Huddersfield, United Kingdom; died 1984), was a British actor. Mason's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
James Mason’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with James
James Mason’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood 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 7,595 American boys and 52 girls named James in 1909: 3rd among boys and 525th 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
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
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 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1909, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets James apart
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy came in 1954, when James Mason was 45.
Study took James Mason to Marlborough College and Peterhouse.
James Mason was 22 when the work began in 1931.
The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Canton of Vaud as the resting place.
On the family side, James Mason was born to Mabel Hattersley Gaunt and John Mason, married Clarissa Kaye and Pamela Mason and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files James Mason under York Records artists, English expatriates in Switzerland and Male actors from Huddersfield.
Pierre Curie (1859) and Haerin (2006) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Marlborough College, Peterhouse and University of Cambridge
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (1954)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Actor
- Working from
- 1931
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Buried at
- Canton of Vaud
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 59
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of James is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once James is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. James creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: James is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. James goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Mason
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Huddersfield 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 Huddersfield that night
Computed for 53.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Huddersfield at 9 p.m. that evening: Megrez of Ursa Major, within 4.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 53.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Huddersfield at all: they sit past the −36.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 18% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 7° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Huddersfield, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Lausanne, Lausanne District in 1984.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Mason: 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
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Saturn
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.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
James Mason's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 15, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
James Mason was born on May 15, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Talks it, jokes it, lives it.
James Mason's birth date, May 15, 1909, 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 Mason's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- James Mason combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsquareMars0.4° to 0.8° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableMarstrinePluto0.9° to 1.5° orb
James’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileSaturn2.2° to 3.4° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSuntrineUranus2.6° to 3.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.3° to 4.6° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.7° to 5.3° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.8° to 7.0° orb
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.9° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileVenusorb from 0.1° to 6.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 28°02′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 27°34′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 13°03′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 6°27′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Venus 0.4°
- Ceres trine Venus 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.6°
- Eros square Neptune 1.9°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 2.9°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
T-square onto Saturn · Uranus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Venus semi-square Neptune 1.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.7°
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James’s cards
Computed from May 15, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q209186 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Mason at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Mason.
Quick answers about James Mason’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Mason?
- James Mason was a Taurus: born May 15, 1909, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was James Mason's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 15, 1909 birth.
- How tall was James Mason?
- James Mason was 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was James Mason's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Mason's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Mason's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Mason's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
