James Van Der Beek
James Van Der Beek (born March 8, 1977, Cheshire, United States; died 2026), was an American actor.
James Van Der Beek’s zodiac sign was Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Pisces, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Snake, with 
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James Van Der Beek’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood 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 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets James apart
Marjorie Estiano (1982) and Warren Zaïre-Emery (2006) 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.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How James creates
How James makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. James builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: James is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. James goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from James's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where James sits
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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 keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.
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.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
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Pisces Sun
Pisces SunDreams in full colour.
James Van Der Beek's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 8, 1977, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Pisces readings associate the sign with imagination, empathy and permeable boundaries: absorbing the mood of a place and turning it into something. Astrologers describe it as the mutable water sign, traditionally ruled by Jupiter and in modern practice by Neptune. The corresponding tension is drift, described in the tradition as a difficulty telling one's own feelings from everyone else's.
Fire Snake
Fire SnakeCalm surface, fast strike.
James Van Der Beek was born on March 8, 1977, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
James Van Der Beek's birth date, March 8, 1977, 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
- The tightest major aspect in James Van Der Beek's date-only chart is Mercury trine Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- James Van Der Beek combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
James’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for James Van Der Beek, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 20° to 5° Libra or Scorpio 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.
stableMercurytrineUranus0.0° to 1.2° orb
James’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.6° to 0.7° orb
James’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareNeptune1.4° to 2.4° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileMars2.1° to 2.6° orb
James’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.5° to 2.6° orb
James’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.6° orb
James’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysquareNeptune3.9° to 5.8° orb
James’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMarssquareJupiter4.0° to 4.7° orb
James’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSaturntrineNeptune5.2° orb
James’s discipline flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineUranus5.9° to 6.9° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.3° to 7.2° orb
James’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
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.
⚷ ChironAries 28°55′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: James may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 7°34′ (moves 0.19° 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.
♡ ErosSagittarius 25°57′ (moves 0.52° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has James attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 14°10′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. James is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 24°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. James is read as immovable on those points.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Jupiter 0.5°
- Hygiea square Neptune 1.9°
- Eros trine Venus 2.5°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.6°
- Hygiea opposition Mercury 2.9°
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. ♆ Neptune9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
A Neptune-led chart is read as imagination and porousness leading: James is read as tuned to what is not said.
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.
Yod onto Mercury · Saturn, Pluto, MercuryTwo 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 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 quincunx Saturn 0.3°
- Sun biquintile Saturn 1.1°
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.9°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 2.0°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for James Van Der Beek, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Fellow Pisces suns
- Samuel BarberAmerican composer
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Born in Snake years
- LaMelo BallAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
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Also born on March 8
- Marjorie Estiano1982
- Warren Zaïre-Emery2006
- Kit Connor2004
- Benny Blanco1988
- Kat Von D1982
- Freddie Prinze Jr.1976
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Eva Marie SaintAmerican actress (born 1924)
- Serge MerlinFrench actor
- F. Murray AbrahamAmerican actor (born 1939)
Other Pisces Snake charts
- Sulaiman Al-Habibbusinessperson
- Yasumitsu ShigetaJapanese businessman
- Dan FriedkinAmerican businessman
- Cristina Fernández de KirchnerPresident of Argentina from 2007 to 2015
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Ahed Al-TamimiPalestinian activist
- Adam Siao Him FaFrench figure skater
- Thomasin McKenzieNew Zealand actress
- 24kGoldnAmerican rapper
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Jules BordetBelgian immunologist and microbiologist
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- William Henry BraggBritish scientist
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
James’s cards
Every card is computed from March 8, 1977, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丁
yin Fire
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for James Van Der Beek, 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 Q313392, 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 gdcgraphics, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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 Van Der Beek’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Van Der Beek?
- James Van Der Beek was a Pisces: born March 8, 1977, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
- What was James Van Der Beek's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 8, 1977 birth.
- What time was James Van Der Beek 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 Van Der Beek's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the March 8, 1977 birth date.
- What was James Van Der Beek's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 8, 1977 birth date.
- Where was James Van Der Beek's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Van Der Beek's dominant planet?
- Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Sun is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
