James Rothman
James Rothman (born November 3, 1950, Haverhill, United States), aged 76, is an American biologist and Nobel laureate. Rothman's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Heinrich Wieland Prize and Sterling Professor.
James Rothman’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Tiger, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with James
James Rothman’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, 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
James ranked 1st among boys and 515th among girls in 1950, the year of this birth, with 86,228 American boys and 252 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
2 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · Silver
The record
What sets James apart
Dolph Lundgren (1957) and Anna Wintour (1949) 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 does not do surface. The core of James is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from James is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, James needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What James needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with James even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. James creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: James is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. James is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. James has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Rothman
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Haverhill 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 Haverhill that night
Computed for 42.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Haverhill was Mirach, in Andromeda, 76.2° up.
Of the 98 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 42.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Haverhill at all: they sit past the −47.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 48° below the horizon, Moon down and 40% lit at last quarter.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Scorpio
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunAll in or nowhere near.
James Rothman's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 3, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Tiger
Metal TigerLeaps first, apologises never.
James Rothman was born on November 3, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Better with someone at their back.
James Rothman's birth date, November 3, 1950, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Rothman's date-only chart is Mars sextile Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Scorpio, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Rothman combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Leo 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
stableMoonconjunctionPluto0.0° to 7.6° orb
James’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
James’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.0° to 0.6° orb
James’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableVenustrineUranus0.6° to 1.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 1.5° orb
stableSuntrineUranus0.9° to 1.9° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus1.8° to 3.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.5° to 2.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.6° to 4.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 6.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 1.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed6 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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 19°46′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 28°20′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 19°19′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 2°17′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 3°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron trine Pluto 0.0°
- Ceres square Saturn 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 0.3°
- Eros square Pluto 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 1.8°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Scorpio · 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.5°
More people like James
Other physicians
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- Stanley B. Prusiner1942
- Brian Kobilka1955
- Bert Sakmann1942
- Denis Mukwege1955
- Ralph Steinman1943
Born in United States
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- Dorian HarewoodAmerican actor (born 1950)
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- Phil McGrawAmerican television personality (born 1950)
- Russell A. HulseAmerican astronomer
- Peggy NoonanAmerican author and conservative columnist
More charts like James’s
Fellow Scorpio suns
- Steven MoffatScottish television writer and producer
- Daniel Abrahamspeculative fiction writer from the United States
- Kurt VonnegutAmerican author
Born in Tiger years
- Wendy WassersteinAmerican playwright
- Alexander ZemlianichenkoRussian photojournalist
- John CoriglianoAmerican composer (born 1938)
Also born on November 3
- Dolph Lundgren1957
- Anna Wintour1949
- Brenda Fassie1964
- Joseline Hernandez1986
- Kendall Jenner1995
- Roseanne Barr1952
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Hunter SchaferAmerican actress, model, and LGBTQ activist
- Marina DiamandisBritish singer
- Roberto CavalliItalian fashion designer
Other Scorpio Tiger charts
- Demi MooreAmerican actress and producer
- Hedy Lamarr
- Eugene Paul WignerHungarian-American physicist and mathematician
- Joaquin PhoenixAmerican actor
Other Tidal Guardians
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- Hong Eun-chaeSouth Korean singer
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James’s cards
Computed from November 3, 1950. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
2 · Diplomat♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q444270 (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 US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Rothman at Wikipedia and medicine.yale.edu.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Rothman.
Quick answers about James Rothman’s chart
- How old is James Rothman?
- James Rothman is 76 years old, born November 3, 1950 in Haverhill, United States.
- What zodiac sign is James Rothman?
- James Rothman is a Scorpio: born November 3, 1950, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is James Rothman's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 3, 1950 birth.
- What is James Rothman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Rothman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Rothman's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Rothman's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
