James Taylor
James Taylor (born March 12, 1948, Boston, United States), aged 78, is an American singer and guitarist. Taylor's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Kennedy Center Honors.
James Taylor’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Pisces, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rat, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with James
James Taylor’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, 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
Of the names registered in 1948, James came 1st among boys and 522nd among girls, carried by 88,605 American boys and 251 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
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
1 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌻 Zinnia
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Terracotta
The record
What sets James apart
Jack Kerouac (1922) and Liza Minnelli (1946) 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 feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of James is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.
The vibe
Underneath, James runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What James needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. James creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. James is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of James leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means James fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
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 may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Taylor
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Boston 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 Boston that night
Computed for 42.36°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alkaphrah stood nearest the zenith over Boston at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Boston at all: they sit past the −47.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 34° below the horizon, Moon down and 5% lit at waxing crescent.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
42 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Sun · 1 unaspected planet · Mars retrograde
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 →Pisces Sun
Pisces SunSoft edges, deep pull.
James Taylor's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 12, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Pisces means →Earth Rat
Earth RatCharming, and counting the exits.
James Taylor was born on March 12, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Front of the line, alone.
James Taylor's birth date, March 12, 1948, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Taylor's date-only chart is Sun square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Taylor combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° Aries 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
stableSunsquareUranus0.0° to 0.6° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMoonoppositionNeptune0.1° to 6.6° orb
James’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableMoontrinePluto0.1° to 6.6° orb
James’s feelings flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.8° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.9° to 2.5° orb
stableMarssextileUranus2.2° to 2.4° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus2.5° to 3.2° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto3.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionMars4.6° to 5.6° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.7° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturnsextileNeptune4.7° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 24°42′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 14°01′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 29°22′ (moves 0.68° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaGemini 23°05′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 15°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mercury 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 0.9°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.0°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 1.9°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.4°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.7°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.8°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Pisces; in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
T-square onto Sun · Jupiter, Uranus, SunAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.7°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Venus 2.0°
- Sun quincunx Mars 2.1°
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on March 12
- Jack Kerouac1922
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Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Deni AvdijaIsraeli basketball player (born 2001)
- Tyrese MaxeyAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Keldon JohnsonAmerican basketball player (born 1999)
Other Pisces Rat charts
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Other Radiant Storytellers
- Erik Axel KarlfeldtSwedish poet
- August KroghDanish physiologist
- Brian David JosephsonWelsh physicist
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Famous people with Life Path 1
- Aidan O'ConnellAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Darien PorterAmerican football player (born 2001)
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
James’s cards
Computed from March 12, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
PiscesChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
1 · Pioneer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q310300 (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 Chuck Fadely - photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Taylor.
Quick answers about James Taylor’s chart
- How old is James Taylor?
- James Taylor is 78 years old, born March 12, 1948 in Boston, United States.
- What zodiac sign is James Taylor?
- James Taylor is a Pisces: born March 12, 1948, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
- What is James Taylor's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 12, 1948 birth.
- What is James Taylor's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is James Taylor's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is James Taylor's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is James Taylor's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
