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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Ox, with 
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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
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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 · 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
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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where James sits
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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.
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James Norton in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.
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. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for James Norton, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Cancer or Leo 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.
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
James’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.3° to 0.4° orb
James’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionUranus0.7° to 1.8° orb
James’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.8° to 4.7° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarstrineSaturn3.8° to 4.5° orb
James’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableSunsquarePluto5.7° to 6.7° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarssquarePluto6.0° to 6.6° orb
James’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter7.2° to 8.0° orb
James’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
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
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 12°26′ (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.
⚳ CeresCancer 16°43′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. James is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCancer 15°02′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. James is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaAries 28°45′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has James feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 5°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. James is read as immovable on those points.
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 conjunction Venus 0.8°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.0°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.8°
- Hygiea square Sun 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. ♇ 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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: James is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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.
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.
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Norton, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as James
Chace Crawford was born on July 18, 1985 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
Every card is computed from July 18, 1985, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
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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
No birth time is on public record for James Norton, 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 Q15990205, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Ox.
- 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.
- What time was James Norton 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 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 from the July 18, 1985 birth date.
- What is James Norton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 18, 1985 birth date.
- 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.
