James Truslow Adams
James Truslow Adams (born October 18, 1878, Southport, United States; died 1949), was an American writer and historian. Adams is best remembered for The March of Democracy. Adams's honours include Pulitzer Prize for History and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
James Truslow Adams’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Tiger, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with James
James Truslow Adams’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Visionary
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal 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
No US figure exists for 1878 — the SSA series begins 2 years later. James opened it at 3rd among boys and 344th among girls, 5,927 American boys and 22 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What James’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
8
Soul Urge · achievement
8
Personality · capable, in charge
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 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets James apart
Zohran Mamdani (1991) and Ne-Yo (1979) 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 makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of James is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
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 beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. James gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. James creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
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 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. James fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Southport 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 Southport that night
Computed for 41.14°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Scheat stood nearest the zenith over Southport at 9 p.m. that evening, 76.3° above the horizon in Pegasus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 90 catalog stars were up in all.
From 41.1°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 Southport at all: they sit past the −48.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 53% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.
How unusual James's chart is
Chart pattern score
66 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Libra · Yod onto Sun · No Fire planets
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
James Truslow Adams's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1878, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Tiger
Earth TigerLeads by moving.
James Truslow Adams was born on October 18, 1878, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Tiger means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
James Truslow Adams's birth date, October 18, 1878, 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 Truslow Adams' date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- James Truslow Adams combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Visionary.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 24° Cancer 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
stableJupitersextileSaturn0.7° to 0.8° orb
James’s growth opens doors for their discipline. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnsextilePluto1.5° to 1.6° orb
James’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusconjunctionMars1.6° to 2.2° orb
James’s affections and drive act as one.
stableJupitertrinePluto2.3° to 2.4° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter2.7° to 3.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 4.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 1.1° to 13.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Fire signs.
James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 6°47′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 8°33′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio or Sagittarius during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 21°47′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 11°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.2°
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.8°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 1.6°
- Chiron conjunction Neptune 2.0°
- Eros trine Saturn 2.1°
James’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury3 pts
disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter3 pts
3 major aspects
Configurations in James’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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.
Yod onto Sun · Saturn, Pluto, SunTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 1.3°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 2.4°
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Also born on October 18
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James’s cards
Computed from October 18, 1878. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
7 · Seeker♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1681213 (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 Truslow Adams 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 Truslow Adams.
Quick answers about James Truslow Adams’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Truslow Adams?
- James Truslow Adams was a Libra: born October 18, 1878, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was James Truslow Adams's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1878 birth.
- What was James Truslow Adams's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was James Truslow Adams's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was James Truslow Adams's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Truslow Adams's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
