James Thomas Flexner
James Thomas Flexner (born January 13, 1908, Manhattan, United States; died 2003), was an American biographer. Flexner's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Book Award.
James Thomas Flexner’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Goat, with 
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James Thomas Flexner’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, 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
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
5 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
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 playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of James is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let James be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. James creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: James is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. James is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means James gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
James Thomas Flexner's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 13, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Goat
Fire GoatMakes everything a bit more beautiful.
James Thomas Flexner was born on January 13, 1908, which falls in a Fire Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
James Thomas Flexner's birth date, January 13, 1908, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in James’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in James Thomas Flexner's date-only chart is Uranus opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Thomas Flexner combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Thomas Flexner, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune0.1° to 0.2° 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.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.2° to 0.8° orb
James’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.2° to 1.1° orb
James’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.4° to 1.9° orb
James’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenustrinePluto1.1° to 2.4° orb
James’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 1.1° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.8° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 1.9° to 12.6° depending on birth time
possibleMercuryconjunctionUranusorb from 7.5° to 9.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 16°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has James making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresLibra 14°07′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. James is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosAries 27°29′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. James is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.
⚕ HygieaAries 21°10′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has James feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 1°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. James is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.4°
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.6°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.8°
- Ceres square Neptune 0.9°
- Hygiea square Sun 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 2.1°
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. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: James is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree 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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Thomas Flexner, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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James’s cards
Every card is computed from January 13, 1908, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for James Thomas Flexner, 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 Q15452860, 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.
The same James Thomas Flexner 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.
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Quick answers about James Thomas Flexner’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Thomas Flexner?
- James Thomas Flexner was a Capricorn: born January 13, 1908, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Goat.
- What was James Thomas Flexner's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 13, 1908 birth.
- What time was James Thomas Flexner 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 Thomas Flexner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 13, 1908 birth date.
- What was James Thomas Flexner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 13, 1908 birth date.
- Where was James Thomas Flexner's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Thomas Flexner's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
