James Rothman
James Rothman (born November 3, 1950, Haverhill, United States), aged 75, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Tiger, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
James’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
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. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.
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
No documented birth time exists for James Rothman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° 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.
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
James’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 1.5° orb
James’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSuntrineUranus0.9° to 1.9° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercurytrineUranus1.8° to 3.4° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° orb
James’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionVenus2.5° to 2.7° orb
James’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.6° to 4.0° orb
James’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 19°46′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has James building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 28°20′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. James is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosScorpio 19°19′ (moves 0.72° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. James is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 2°17′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. James is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 3°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of James that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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 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°
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. ♇ 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
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.
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 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 quincunx Saturn 0.6°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Rothman, 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 November 3, 1950, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for James Rothman, 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 Q444270, 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by James Rothman.
Quick answers about James Rothman’s chart
- How old is James Rothman?
- James Rothman is 75 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Tiger.
- 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 time was James Rothman 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 is James Rothman's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the November 3, 1950 birth date.
- What is James Rothman's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 3, 1950 birth date.
- 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.
