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, Chinese zodiac was Fire Goat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Goat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with James
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
James ranked 3rd among boys and 684th among girls in 1908, the year of this birth, with 7,012 American boys and 32 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.
1
Expression · starting things
5
Soul Urge · freedom
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1907, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets James apart
James Thomas Flexner took the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1953, at 45.
Training came by way of Harvard University.
James Thomas Flexner was born to Helen Thomas Flexner and Simon Flexner.
Wikipedia's editors put James Thomas Flexner under American art historians, New York Herald Tribune people and Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards winners.
Orlando Bloom (1977) and Liam Hemsworth (1990) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1953), National Book Award (1973) and Francis Parkman Prize (1963)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
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. 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 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.
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 Thomas Flexner
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening: Capella of Auriga, within 8.5° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 40.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Manhattan on any night.
The Moon, 83% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 46° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Manhattan, United States
The death is recorded at Manhattan, New York City in 2003.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Thomas Flexner: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · 1 unaspected planet · 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 →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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Taurus or Gemini 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
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
stableSaturnsquarePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
stableVenustrinePluto1.1° to 2.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 16°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLibra 14°07′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 27°29′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 21°10′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 1°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
James’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in James’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Also born on January 13
- Orlando Bloom1977
- Liam Hemsworth1990
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus1961
- Asake1995
- Patrick Dempsey1966
- Nicole Eggert1972
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Tim RothBritish actor
- Frank FinlayBritish actor
- George RaftAmerican actor
Other Capricorn Goat charts
- Dabney ColemanAmerican actor
- Rolf M. ZinkernagelSwiss immunologist (born 1944)
- Benjamin ListGerman chemist (1968-)
- Elizabeth StroutAmerican novelist (born 1956)
Other Radiant Pioneers
- Andrea PirloItalian association football player and manager
- Gervonta DavisAmerican boxer (born 1994)
- Andrea Kimi AntonelliItalian F1 driver
- Louis PartridgeBritish actor (born 2003)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Dominique PireBelgian Dominican friar
- Aaron CiechanoverIsraeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate
- John Carew EcclesAustralian neurophysiologist
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James’s cards
Computed from January 13, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15452860 (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.
The same James Thomas Flexner at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Thomas Flexner.
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.
- 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 was James Thomas Flexner's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Thomas Flexner's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
