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James T. Berryman

James T. Berryman (born June 8, 1902, Washington, D.C., United States; died 1971), was an American political cartoonist. Berryman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

James T. Berryman’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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James T. Berryman’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Storyteller

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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

8 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

North

Season

winter

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Rose pink · Lilac · Moonlight white

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 is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. James needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, James is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What James needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How James wants to be loved

James wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once James is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. James is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

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, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where James sits

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Intimate circleWide network
James

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
James

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
James

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
James

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
James

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
James

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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James T. Berryman at a glance

Gemini Sun

Fascinating, then gone.

James T. Berryman's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 8, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.

Water Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

James T. Berryman was born on June 8, 1902, which falls in a Water 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 8

Wants it all. Gets most.

James T. Berryman's birth date, June 8, 1902, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.

What stands out in James’s chart

James’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for James T. Berryman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.3° orbMercury opens doors for Venus · Sextile, 0.6° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.9° orbSun fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.2° orbUranus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.3° orbJupiter opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 2.1° orbSun faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.5° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.9° orbSun in Gemini · 16°56′16°Moon in Cancer · 21°38′21°Mercury in Cancer · 5°54′Venus in Taurus · 5°18′Mars in Gemini · 0°53′Jupiter in Aquarius · 17°15′ · retrograde17°Saturn in Capricorn · 27°02′ · retrograde27°Uranus in Sagittarius · 19°24′ · retrograde19°Neptune in Cancer · 0°38′Pluto in Gemini · 18°08′18°

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.

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Conjunction
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb

    James’s core identity flows straight into their growth.

  • stableMercurysextileVenus0.1° to 1.1° orb

    James’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto0.7° to 1.7° orb

    James’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupitertrinePluto0.9° orb

    James’s growth flows straight into their depths.

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto1.2° to 1.3° orb

    James’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunoppositionUranus2.0° to 3.0° orb

    James’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableJupitersextileUranus2.1° to 2.2° orb

    James’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarstrineSaturn3.5° to 4.2° orb

    James’s drive flows straight into their discipline.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune5.2° to 5.3° orb

    James’s mind and imagination act as one.

  • possibleMoonoppositionSaturnorb from 0.2° to 12.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.3° to 16.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleVenussextileNeptuneorb from 4.1° to 5.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air 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.

  • ChironCapricorn 13°17′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. James is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

  • CeresGemini 20°37′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has James feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.

  • ErosTaurus 4°40′ (moves 0.71° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has James wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.

  • HygieaTaurus 14°26′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. James is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.

  • Black Moon LilithSagittarius 13°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has James leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Eros conjunction Venus 0.6°
  • Ceres opposition Uranus 1.2°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.5°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 2.8°

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. 1. Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. Moon4 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Mercury, Neptune

  3. 3. Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: James is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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, the shape it makesStellium in Gemini · Sun, Mars, 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 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.

  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James T. Berryman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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James’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Star

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The Tidal Storyteller

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Western zodiac

Gemini

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Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

yang Water

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

yang Fire

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

yang Water

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for James T. Berryman, 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 Q27070627, 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 Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same James T. Berryman at Wikipedia.

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 T. Berryman.

Quick answers about James T. Berryman’s chart

What zodiac sign was James T. Berryman?
James T. Berryman was a Gemini: born June 8, 1902, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Tiger.
What was James T. Berryman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 8, 1902 birth.
What time was James T. Berryman 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 was James T. Berryman's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the June 8, 1902 birth date.
What was James T. Berryman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 8, 1902 birth date.
Where was James T. Berryman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was James T. Berryman's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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