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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with James
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
James ranked 5th among boys and 667th among girls in 1979, the year of this birth, with 39,351 American boys and 261 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
6
Personality · caring, responsible
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1979, 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
Elizabeth II (1926) and Glen Hansard (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
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. 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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to James McAvoy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Glasgow on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Glasgow at 17:25, James McAvoy’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Glasgow that night
Computed for 55.86°N, at the documented birth time.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Glasgow at the birth hour, 79.0° above the horizon in Auriga.
Of the 107 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 55.9°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Glasgow at all: they sit past the −34.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -25° below the horizon, Moon down and 29% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- London · Crouch End
Wikidata records London and Crouch End as James McAvoy's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Glasgow, Shared Places reads London as mixed for this chart: 54 of 100, 85th of 168 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Bucharest, Romania, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What James's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 未.
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Outer world
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
17 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
2 planets at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
SunsextileMoonapplying · 4.7° orb
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 5.5° orb
MarsoppositionPlutoapplying · 6.1° orb
SuntrineSaturnapplying · 6.4° orb
MoonsquareUranusseparating · 6.5° orb
MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 7.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironTaurus 8°50′ · House 8
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 22°51′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 15°01′ · House 5
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 13°02′ · House 6
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 21°10′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
James’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in James’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| 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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More charts like James’s
Fellow Taurus suns
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Born in Goat years
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- Donald J. CramAmerican chemist
- Martinus J. G. VeltmanDutch theoretical physicist
Also born on April 21
- Elizabeth II1926
- Glen Hansard1970
- Tony Romo1980
- Hyein2008
- Andie MacDowell1958
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Seann William ScottAmerican actor (born 1976)
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- Maura TierneyAmerican actress
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Other Steadfast Guardians
- Broderick JonesAmerican football player (born 2001)
- K'Lavon ChaissonAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Jonah JacksonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Dylan ParhamAmerican football player (born 1999)
Other Libra risings with documented times
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Famous people with Life Path 6
- George WillAmerican newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
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- Paul MuldoonIrish poet (born 1951)
From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
James’s cards
Computed from April 21, 1979. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193659 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, 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 McAvoy 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 McAvoy.
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.
- 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.
- What is James McAvoy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 8°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
