James Norton
James Norton (born July 18, 1985, London, United Kingdom), aged 41, is a British actor. Notable films include House of the Dragon, Little Women and Rush. Norton's honours include Crime Thriller Awards and Glamour Award.
James Norton’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with James
James Norton’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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 35,862 American boys and 287 girls named James in 1985: 7th among boys and 644th 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.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
9
Soul Urge · meaning
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.
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 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid
Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green
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 1985, 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 schooling ran through Fitzwilliam College and Ampleforth College.
James Norton was 22 when the work began in 2007.
The family line: born to Hugh Biddulph Norton.
Wikipedia files James Norton under People from Malton, North Yorkshire, Male actors from North Yorkshire and Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Chace Crawford 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.
- Educated at
- Fitzwilliam College, Ampleforth College and Bramcote School
- Working from
- 2007
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 29
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James feels the room before entering it. The core of James is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for James, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to James like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
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 steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means James does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Norton
Three stars chosen from the real sky above London 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 London that night
Computed for 51.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at London was Edasich, in Draco, 81.9° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 87 catalog stars above the horizon.
London sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from London on any night.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, was still up; the Sun sat -1° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- London, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Marton · Peckham
Wikidata records Marton and Peckham as James Norton's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Norton: 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
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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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Cancer Sun
Cancer SunGuards the people, guards the past.
James Norton's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 18, 1985, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Wood Ox
Wood OxReliable to the bone.
James Norton was born on July 18, 1985, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
James Norton's birth date, July 18, 1985, 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 Norton's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
- James Norton combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMars0.0° to 0.3° orb
James’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
James’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.3° to 1.6° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.7° to 1.8° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn3.8° to 4.5° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.7° to 6.7° orb
stableMarssquarePluto6.0° to 6.6° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter7.2° to 8.0° orb
possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 12°26′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 16°43′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 15°02′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 28°45′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron conjunction Venus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.8°
- Hygiea square Sun 3.0°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto6 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mars
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Born the same day as James
Chace Crawford was born on July 18, 1985 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from London, at 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Ox years
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Also born on July 18
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- Priyanka Chopra1982
- Kristen Bell1980
- Richard Branson1950
- Elsa Pataky1976
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Tim PrattAmerican science fiction and fantasy writer and poet (1976-)
- Ted ElliottAmerican screenwriter (born 1961)
- Phil FoglioAmerican cartoonist
Other Cancer Ox charts
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James’s cards
Computed from July 18, 1985. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15990205 (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 Punting Cambridge: Website - Scudamore’s Punting Cambridge, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Norton at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Norton.
Quick answers about James Norton’s chart
- How old is James Norton?
- James Norton is 41 years old, born July 18, 1985 in London, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is James Norton?
- James Norton is a Cancer: born July 18, 1985, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is James Norton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1985 birth.
- How tall is James Norton?
- James Norton is 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is James Norton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Norton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Norton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Norton's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
