James Stewart
James Stewart (born May 20, 1908, Indiana, United States; died 1997), was an American actor and military officer. Stewart is best remembered for Bend of the River, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation and Winchester '73. Stewart's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Academy Award for Best Actor and Honorary Golden Bear.
James Stewart’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with James
James Stewart’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
In 1908, 7,012 American boys and 32 girls were registered James — 3rd among boys and 684th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
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
7 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Ivory · Blush · Terracotta
The record
What sets James apart
Cher (1946) and José Mujica (1935) 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 is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of James is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. James gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
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 witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. James scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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 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 Stewart
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Indiana 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 Indiana that night
Computed for 40.62°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Indiana at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 3.4° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 88 catalog stars above the horizon.
Indiana sits at 40.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 72% lit at waning gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat 14° below the horizon.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree · A leaning bowl
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 →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunTry rushing a Taurus. Go on.
James Stewart's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 20, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
James Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Thinks more than it says.
James Stewart's birth date, May 20, 1908, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Stewart's date-only chart is Jupiter trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Mars and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Stewart 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
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 5° Capricorn or Aquarius 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
stableJupitertrineSaturn0.2° to 0.3° orb
James’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.6° to 1.3° orb
James’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune3.6° orb
James’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenusoppositionUranus4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn4.6° to 5.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto4.8° to 5.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.9° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 1.3° to 15.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 1.6° to 15.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 5.0° to 19.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 23°21′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 4°20′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 19°39′ (moves 0.87° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 26°27′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 15°28′ (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 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.5°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 2.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 2.8°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Pluto
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
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 0.5°
- Mercury semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Jupiter semi-square Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 1.9°
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on May 20
- Cher1946
- José Mujica1935
- Petr Čech1982
- Timothy Olyphant1968
- Tony Goldwyn1960
- Cindy McCain1954
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Famous people with Life Path 7
- Edwin MorganScottish poet and translator
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James’s cards
Computed from May 20, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102462 (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 Studio publicity still, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Stewart 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 Stewart.
Quick answers about James Stewart’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Stewart?
- James Stewart was a Taurus: born May 20, 1908, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was James Stewart's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 20, 1908 birth.
- How tall was James Stewart?
- James Stewart was 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was James Stewart's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Stewart's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Stewart's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Stewart's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
