James McAvoy
James McAvoy (born April 21, 1979, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 17:25), aged 47, is a Scottish actor. McAvoy is best known for Speak No Evil, Split and ShakespeaRe-Told. McAvoy's honours include BAFTA Rising Star Award, British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film and London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actor of the Year.
James McAvoy’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
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James McAvoy’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed 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
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
6 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
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 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.
The vibe
Underneath, James needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What James needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with James, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. James creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means James gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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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James McAvoy at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
James McAvoy's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time. 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 Goat
Earth GoatArtist first, everything second.
James McAvoy was born on April 21, 1979, which falls in a Earth 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 6Care is the whole job.
James McAvoy's birth date, April 21, 1979, 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
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in James McAvoy's timed chart: Mercury in the 7th house, Mars in the 7th house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in James McAvoy's timed chart is Sun square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- James McAvoy combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
James’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SunsquareJupiterseparating · 0.9° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their growth.
VenustrineJupiterapplying · 1.9° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their growth.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.8° orb
James’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurytrineJupiterseparating · 3.6° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunsextileMoonapplying · 4.7° orb
James’s core identity opens doors for their feelings.
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 5.5° orb
James’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MarsoppositionPlutoapplying · 6.1° orb
James’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
SuntrineSaturnapplying · 6.4° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonsquareUranusseparating · 6.5° orb
James’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 7.7° orb
James’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire 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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 8°50′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has James building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresPisces 22°51′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: James is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosAquarius 15°01′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. James is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaPisces 13°02′ · House 6
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 LilithLeo 21°10′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. James is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 1.4°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.5°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.5°
- Ceres square Neptune 2.6°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♀ Venus10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Mercury; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; angular in the seventh house; 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.
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 semi-square Mars 0.1°
- Saturn quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
- Moon semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
James’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 6 | Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 1 | Uranus | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Leo, house 11 | Neptune | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Capricorn | Saturn in Virgo, house 12 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Aquarius | Uranus in Scorpio, house 2 | Moon | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 3 | Venus | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Aries | Mars in Aries, house 7 | Mercury, Mars | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 6 | Sun | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Gemini | Mercury in Aries, house 7 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Cancer | Moon in Aquarius, house 5 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Leo | Sun in Taurus, house 8 | Jupiter | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Virgo | Mercury in Aries, house 7 | Saturn | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
James’s cards
Every card is computed from April 21, 1979, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Hour
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193659, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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.
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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 McAvoy’s chart
- How old is James McAvoy?
- James McAvoy is 47 years old, born April 21, 1979 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is James McAvoy?
- James McAvoy is a Taurus: born April 21, 1979, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Goat.
- What is James McAvoy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 21, 1979 birth.
- What time was James McAvoy born?
- 17:25 local time in Glasgow, United Kingdom, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is James McAvoy's rising sign?
- Libra rising, calculated from the documented 17:25 birth time in Glasgow, United Kingdom (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is James McAvoy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 21, 1979 birth date.
- What is James McAvoy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 21, 1979 birth time.
- Where is James McAvoy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 21°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James McAvoy's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Libra; disposes Sun, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
