James Phinney Baxter III
James Phinney Baxter III (born February 15, 1893, Portland, United States; died 1975), was an American historian. Baxter's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
James Phinney Baxter III’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with James
James Phinney Baxter III’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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
In 1893, 5,030 American boys and 23 girls were registered James — 3rd among boys and 607th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
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
11 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 💠 Water Lily
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The record
What sets James apart
The Pulitzer Prize for History came in 1947, when James Phinney Baxter III was 54.
James Phinney Baxter III was taught at Portland High School and Williams College.
On Wikipedia the categories read Colorado College faculty, Baxter family and Portland High School (Maine) alumni.
Megan Thee Stallion (1995) and Miranda July (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Portland High School, Williams College and Harvard University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for History (1947)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 6
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of James is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
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 as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let James be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. James creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: James is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. James is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means James is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Phinney Baxter III
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Portland 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 Portland that night
Computed for 43.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Castor stood nearest the zenith over Portland at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.6° above the horizon in Gemini.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
Portland sits at 43.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −46.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Portland on any night.
The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 41° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Portland, United States
The death is recorded at Williamstown, Berkshire County in 1975.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Phinney Baxter III: 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
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · Grand trine · T-square onto Venus
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
James Phinney Baxter III's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 15, 1893, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Water Dragon
Water DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
James Phinney Baxter III was born on February 15, 1893, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Bright signal, thin skin.
James Phinney Baxter III's birth date, February 15, 1893, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Phinney Baxter III's date-only chart is Venus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Phinney Baxter III combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 21° Aquarius 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
stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenustrinePluto0.0° to 1.0° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.5° to 1.3° orb
James’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto0.7° orb
stableVenussquareUranus1.8° to 3.1° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn3.3° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturntrineNeptune3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.4° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.1° to 5.7° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.1° to 9.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air7 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 1°04′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 22°41′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 5°47′ (moves 0.58° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 7°49′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 24°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 0.0°
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.7°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.8°
- Eros trine Pluto 2.1°
- Eros conjunction Venus 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.6°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.7°
- Eros square Mars 2.9°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.9°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 5 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
Grand trine · Venus, Saturn, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Venus, Saturn, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.0°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.9°
- Jupiter semi-square Neptune 1.5°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 2.2°
More people like James
Other historians
- Bray Hammond1886
- T. Harry Williams1909
- Allan Nevins1890
- Perry Miller1905
- Leonard D. White1891
- Mary Wells Ashworth1903
Born in United States
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- John P. MarquandAmerican writer
- Arthur Holly ComptonAmerican physicist
- Margaret LeechAmerican historian and novelist
- Elmer RiceAmerican playwright
- Lillian GishAmerican actor, actress, motion picture producers and director, screenwriter
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Born in Dragon years
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Also born on February 15
- Megan Thee Stallion1995
- Miranda July1974
- Callum Turner1990
- Sodapoppin1994
- Omarosa Manigault Newman1974
- Amber Riley1986
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- Ronnie StanleyAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Walker LittleAmerican football player
- Nnamdi MadubuikeAmerican football player
Other Aquarius Dragon charts
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- John Luther AdamsAmerican composer (born 1953)
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Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- Emilia JonesBritish actress
- Senate SeeisoPrincess of Lesotho
- Thomas PidcockBritish cyclist
- Ethan DolanAmerican comedian
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- N. K. JemisinAmerican science fiction and fantasy writer
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James’s cards
Computed from February 15, 1893. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
11 · Visionary♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3806702 (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.
The same James Phinney Baxter III at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Phinney Baxter III.
Quick answers about James Phinney Baxter III’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Phinney Baxter III?
- James Phinney Baxter III was an Aquarius: born February 15, 1893, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was James Phinney Baxter III's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 15, 1893 birth.
- What was James Phinney Baxter III's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Phinney Baxter III's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Phinney Baxter III's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Phinney Baxter III's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mars, Saturn; 5 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
