James Schamus
James Schamus (born September 7, 1959, Detroit, United States), aged 67, is an American filmmaker (born 1959). Schamus is best known for Hulk and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Schamus's honours include Best Screenplay Award and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
James Schamus’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with James
James Schamus’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Explorer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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
Of the names registered in 1959, James came 3rd among boys and 574th among girls, carried by 78,648 American boys and 294 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
1
Soul Urge · independence
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
22 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets James apart
What keeps James Schamus in print: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hulk.
Training came by way of University of California, Berkeley.
On the family side, James Schamus was married Nancy Kricorian.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for James Schamus: GLAAD Golden Gate Award, Screenwriters from Michigan and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay winners.
The same date carries Drew Weissman. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hulk
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Best Screenplay Award (1997) and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (2001)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song and Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 14
What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of James is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, James feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What James needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with James and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
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 warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. James is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
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 may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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 Schamus
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Detroit at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 3.3° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 89 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Detroit on any night.
The Moon, 30% lit at waxing crescent, was still up; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Virgo · A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
James Schamus's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 7, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
James Schamus was born on September 7, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 22
Life Path 22Builds what others only dream about.
James Schamus's birth date, September 7, 1959, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 22 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Schamus' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- James Schamus combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Explorer.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 22° Scorpio 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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.0° to 1.9° orb
James’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.0° to 1.6° orb
James’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto0.0° to 0.3° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune0.4° to 0.9° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn0.4° to 1.0° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn3.5° to 5.4° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto3.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.4° to 4.5° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 24°09′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 26°20′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 2°41′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 7°49′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 2°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 0.8°
- Chiron square Jupiter 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.5°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.6°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 1.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.1°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.2°
- Eros sextile Saturn 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 2.2°
- Hygiea square Neptune 2.9°
James’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 4 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 5 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, 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.
- Sun quintile Jupiter 0.7°
Born the same day as James
Drew Weissman was born on September 7, 1959 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Detroit sits at 42.3°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like James
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Born in United States
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on September 7
- Evan Rachel Wood1987
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- Miniminter1992
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Juan MussoArgentine footballer (born 1994)
- Jordan PickfordEnglish footballer (born 1994)
- Iñaki WilliamsGhanaian association football player (born 1994)
Other Virgo Pig charts
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- Leopold RužičkaCroatian scientist
- Arthur HendersonBritish politician
- Saul PerlmutterAmerican astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
Other Tidal Explorers
- Mohamed DiawaraFrench basketball player (born 2005)
- Ryu Jun-yeolSouth Korean actor
- Donald BrenAmerican businessman
- Denise CoatesEnglish businesswoman
Famous people with Life Path 22
- Rande GerberAmerican businessman and former model
- Tonya HardingAmerican figure skater
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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
James’s cards
Computed from September 7, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
22 · Master Builder☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1354081 (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 Sebaso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Schamus at Wikipedia, IMDb 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 Schamus.
Quick answers about James Schamus’s chart
- How old is James Schamus?
- James Schamus is 67 years old, born September 7, 1959 in Detroit, United States.
- What zodiac sign is James Schamus?
- James Schamus is a Virgo: born September 7, 1959, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is James Schamus's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 7, 1959 birth.
- What is James Schamus's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Schamus's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Schamus's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Schamus's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Pluto; 4 major aspects). Saturn is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
