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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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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.
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~5,274,520
Americans share it since 1880
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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
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
James Mason in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for James Mason, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Pisces or Aries 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.
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
James’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.7° to 2.9° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionVenus4.3° to 4.6° orb
James’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussquareMars4.7° to 5.3° orb
James’s affections grind against their drive.
stableVenussquareJupiter5.8° to 7.0° orb
James’s affections grind against their growth.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune5.9° orb
James’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 28°02′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has James making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 27°34′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has James caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosAries 13°03′ (moves 0.65° 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.
⚕ HygieaCancer 6°27′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Cancer is read as health tied to home, mood and belonging. James is read as someone who does not thrive far from a base.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has James exacting with themselves first.
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.
- 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°
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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: James is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Mason, 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 May 15, 1909, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for James Mason, 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 Q209186, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Mason at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster.
- 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.
- What time was James Mason 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 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 from the May 15, 1909 birth date.
- What was James Mason's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 15, 1909 birth date.
- 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.
