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James Middleton

James Middleton (born April 15, 1987, Reading, United Kingdom), aged 39, is an English entrepreneur and younger brother of Catherine, Princess of Wales.

James Middleton’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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James Middleton’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Strategist

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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

8 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌺 Poppy

White · Crimson · Flame orange

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

The record

What sets James apart

Samira Wiley shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

What the chart says

James, according to the stars

Core essence

James leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of James is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, James feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What James needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

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 grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. James builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: James is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. James is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. James scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where James sits

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Intimate circleWide network
James

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
James

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
James

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
James

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
James

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
James

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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James Middleton at a glance

Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

James Middleton's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 15, 1987, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.

Fire Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

James Middleton was born on April 15, 1987, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.

Life Path 8

Built for the big table.

James Middleton's birth date, April 15, 1987, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in James’s chart

James’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for James Middleton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1° orbSun flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.7° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.4° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.5° orbMoon fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.4° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 3.8° orbSun flows with Saturn · Trine, 4° orbSun in Aries · 24°57′☉24°Moon in Scorpio · 12°20′☽12°Mercury in Aries · 4°09′☿4°Venus in Pisces · 21°19′♀21°Mars in Gemini · 6°31′♂6°Jupiter in Aries · 10°30′♃10°Saturn in Sagittarius · 20°58′ · retrograde♄℞20°Uranus in Sagittarius · 26°38′ · retrograde♅℞26°Neptune in Capricorn · 8°00′ · retrograde♆℞7°Pluto in Scorpio · 8°59′ · retrograde♇℞8°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb

    James’s affections grind against their discipline. 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.

  • stableSuntrineUranus1.2° to 2.2° orb

    James’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysextileMars1.9° to 2.8° orb

    James’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune2.4° to 2.6° orb

    James’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune3.0° to 4.6° orb

    James’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableSuntrineSaturn3.5° to 4.5° orb

    James’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter3.8° to 4.2° orb

    James’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableVenussquareUranus4.7° to 5.9° orb

    James’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter5.7° to 7.0° orb

    James’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionUranus5.7° orb

    James’s discipline and need for freedom act as one.

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 11.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 17°32′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has James turning that into a careful, exact way with words.

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 5°00′ (moves 0.09° 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.

  • ♡ ErosTaurus or Gemini during this date

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has James wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 27°47′ (moves 0.25° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has James needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 15°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has James guarding a private self that family did not get to name.

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.

  • Ceres square Mercury 0.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Sun 2.8°
  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 3.0°

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. 1. ♂ Mars8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Mars; 3 major aspects

A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: James is read as acting first and reflecting after.

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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, JupiterThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Mars · Neptune, Pluto, MarsTwo 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Pluto · Mars, Jupiter, PlutoTwo 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 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 biquintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Venus quintile Neptune 1.3°
  • Mars quincunx Neptune 1.5°
  • Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.5°
  • Mars quincunx Pluto 2.5°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Middleton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

James’s family here

2 relatives of James Middleton also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.

Born the same day as James

Samira Wiley was born on April 15, 1987 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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James’s cards

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for James Middleton, 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 Q14244704, 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.

The same James Middleton at Wikipedia, IMDb and Instagram.

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 Middleton.

Quick answers about James Middleton’s chart

How old is James Middleton?
James Middleton is 39 years old, born April 15, 1987 in Reading, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is James Middleton?
James Middleton is an Aries: born April 15, 1987, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rabbit.
What is James Middleton's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 15, 1987 birth.
What time was James Middleton 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.
What is James Middleton's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the April 15, 1987 birth date.
What is James Middleton's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 15, 1987 birth date.
Where is James Middleton's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is James Middleton's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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