James Spader
James Spader (born February 7, 1960, Boston, United States, 20:02), aged 66, is an American actor. Spader is best known for Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Blacklist and The Office. Spader's honours include Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
James Spader’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with James
James Spader’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, 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
James ranked 3rd among boys and 578th among girls in 1960, the year of this birth, with 76,815 American boys and 291 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.
3
Expression · expression and voice
3
Soul Urge · being heard
9
Personality · generous, worldly
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
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
The record
What sets James apart
The shelf James Spader is read from: The Office, Boston Legal and The Blacklist.
The classrooms behind this chart: Brooks School and Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
The working life starts in 1978, at 18.
The family line: born to Jean Fraser and Stoddard Greenwood (Todd) Spader.
Tawakkol Karman (1979) and Ashton Kutcher (1978) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- The Office, Boston Legal and The Blacklist
- Educated at
- Brooks School, Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and Phillips Academy
- Instruments
- piano and voice
- Awards
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (2005)
- Working from
- 1978
- Wikipedia editions
- 59
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 processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What James needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show James you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
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 quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. James is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means James does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it 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 likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
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Dedicate a star to James Spader
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Boston at 20:02, James Spader’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Boston that night
Computed for 42.36°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Boston was Capella, in Auriga, 85.8° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Boston on any night.
The Moon, 80% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 33° below the horizon.
What James's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Debater 巨門 in 辰
Bureau 金四局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Human Design
Generator, profile 6/2
Emotional authority · Triple Split definition
Human Design explained →Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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.
Score your own chart →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunCares about everyone, needs space.
James Spader's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
What Aquarius means →Metal Rat
Metal RatQuick, clever, never stuck.
James Spader was born on February 7, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Needs the quiet to work.
James Spader's birth date, February 7, 1960, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in James Spader's timed chart: Moon in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 4th house and Pluto in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in James Spader's timed chart is Moon opposition Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Venus, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- James Spader combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
James’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoonoppositionJupiterapplying · 0.7° orb
James’s feelings pull against their growth from across the wheel.
VenusconjunctionSaturnseparating · 0.7° orb
James’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunoppositionUranusapplying · 0.8° orb
James’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 1.1° orb
MoontrineMercuryapplying · 1.8° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.8° orb
VenusconjunctionMarsapplying · 4.1° orb
SaturnsextileNeptuneseparating · 4.6° orb
MarsconjunctionSaturnseparating · 4.8° orb
MercuryoppositionPlutoapplying · 7.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 26°50′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 24°28′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 8°27′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 24°45′ · House 12
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 19°56′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Chiron conjunction Mercury 0.7°
- Eros square Neptune 0.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Ceres trine Ascendant 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Moon 1.0°
- Chiron trine Moon 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.6°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.7°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.8°
James’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Moon sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Moon, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn8.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
Configurations in James’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 0.5°
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.7°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.3°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 1.4°
- Moon sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 2.0°
James’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virgo | Mercury in Aquarius, house 6 | Pluto | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Libra | Venus in Capricorn, house 5 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 1 | Neptune | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 4 | Jupiter | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Capricorn | Saturn in Capricorn, house 5 | Venus, Mars, Saturn | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 12 | Sun, Mercury | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 3 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aries | Mars in Capricorn, house 5 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Taurus | Venus in Capricorn, house 5 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Gemini | Mercury in Aquarius, house 6 | Moon | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Cancer | Moon in Gemini, house 10 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Leo | Sun in Aquarius, house 6 | Uranus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
James’s cards
Computed from February 7, 1960. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q296928 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Spader at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Spader.
Quick answers about James Spader’s chart
- How old is James Spader?
- James Spader is 66 years old, born February 7, 1960 in Boston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is James Spader?
- James Spader is an Aquarius: born February 7, 1960, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
- What is James Spader's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 7, 1960 birth.
- What time was James Spader born?
- 20:02 local time in Boston, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is James Spader's rising sign?
- Virgo rising, calculated from the documented 20:02 birth time in Boston, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is James Spader's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Spader's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 26°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Spader's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 19°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Spader's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Moon sign, Gemini; rules the Ascendant, Virgo; disposes Moon, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
