James P. Allison
James P. Allison (born August 7, 1948, Alice, United States), aged 78, is an American immunologist and Nobel laureate (born 1948). Allison's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Warren Alpert Foundation Prize and Clarivate Citation Laureates.
James P. Allison’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with James
James P. Allison’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Scholar
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, 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
James ranked 1st among boys and 522nd among girls in 1948, the year of this birth, with 88,605 American boys and 251 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.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
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
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
The record
What sets James apart
Charlize Theron (1975) and Abbie Cornish (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of James is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, James is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What James needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. James gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
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 quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. James is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of James leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. James fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Alice on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Alice that night
Computed for 27.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Kornephoros stood nearest the zenith over Alice at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.7° above the horizon in Hercules.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 27.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Acrux cannot be seen from Alice at all: they sit past the −62.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waxing crescent, 13% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 9° down.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart · No Earth planets
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunPride is the engine.
James P. Allison's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 7, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
James P. Allison was born on August 7, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
James P. Allison's birth date, August 7, 1948, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James P. Allison's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- James P. Allison combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Scholar.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 28° Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
James’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 1.3° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMarssextilePluto1.4° to 2.0° orb
James’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileMars1.6° to 3.1° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune1.8° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsextileMars2.0° to 2.4° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto3.0° to 5.1° orb
stableVenusconjunctionUranus3.3° to 3.9° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter3.7° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsextileNeptune3.8° to 4.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury4.0° to 5.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 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, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 18°45′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 14°43′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer or Leo during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 6°34′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 1°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Venus 0.9°
- Ceres square Mars 1.9°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 2.8°
James’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Saturn, Pluto; 5 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Saturn, PlutoThree 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.9°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.1°
More people like James
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- Jeanne RobinsonCanadian choreographer
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- Al GoreVice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)
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- Joan D. VingeAmerican writer
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Also born on August 7
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Other Evergreen Scholars
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- Martin ChalfieAmerican biochemist, cell biologist, and university teacher (born 1947)
- Donald J. CramAmerican chemist
Famous people with Life Path 1
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
James’s cards
Computed from August 7, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6140731 (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 Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James P. Allison at Wikipedia, faculty.mdanderson.org 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 P. Allison.
Quick answers about James P. Allison’s chart
- How old is James P. Allison?
- James P. Allison is 78 years old, born August 7, 1948 in Alice, United States.
- What zodiac sign is James P. Allison?
- James P. Allison is a Leo: born August 7, 1948, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is James P. Allison's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 7, 1948 birth.
- What is James P. Allison's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is James P. Allison's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James P. Allison's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James P. Allison's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Saturn, Pluto; 5 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
