James Rainwater
James Rainwater (born December 9, 1917, Council, United States; died 1986), was an American physicist. Rainwater's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, IEEE Fellow and Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award.
James Rainwater’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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James Rainwater’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Healer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable 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 · 2 · 8 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Rose-gold · Flame orange
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What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of James is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, James cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What James needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
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 find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. James creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: James is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means James channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunBlunt, cheerful, gone by morning.
James Rainwater's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 9, 1917, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeSays less than it knows.
James Rainwater was born on December 9, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
James Rainwater's birth date, December 9, 1917, 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 Rainwater's date-only chart is Venus trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- James Rainwater combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Healer.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Rainwater, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 29° Libra 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.
stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.3° to 1.7° orb
James’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.4° to 1.4° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableSunsquareMars1.1° to 1.7° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupitersextileNeptune1.8° to 1.9° orb
James’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.3° to 3.4° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune2.3° to 3.2° orb
James’s affections pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextileUranus2.8° to 3.8° orb
James’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus6.1° orb
James’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.5° orb
James’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 2.4° to 14.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.
⚷ ChironPisces 25°25′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has James absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresScorpio 28°34′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. James is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCapricorn 25°08′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. James is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 13°31′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. James is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 14°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has James exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Hygiea opposition Saturn 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.9°
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. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: James is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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.
Yod onto Mercury · Jupiter, Neptune, MercuryTwo 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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.4°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.5°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 0.7°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.9°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Rainwater, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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James’s cards
Every card is computed from December 9, 1917, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for James Rainwater, 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 Q190745, 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 Keystone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Rainwater at Wikipedia.
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 Rainwater’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Rainwater?
- James Rainwater was a Sagittarius: born December 9, 1917, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was James Rainwater's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 9, 1917 birth.
- What time was James Rainwater 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 was James Rainwater's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the December 9, 1917 birth date.
- What was James Rainwater's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 9, 1917 birth date.
- Where was James Rainwater's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Rainwater's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
