James Watson
James Watson (born April 6, 1928, Chicago, United States, 01:23; died 2025), was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate. Watson is best remembered for Molecular Biology of the Gene and The Double Helix. Watson's honours include Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award and Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award.
James Watson’s zodiac sign was Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
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James Watson’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
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What the chart says
James, according to the stars
Core essence
James leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of James is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, James cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What James needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How James wants to be loved
James wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with James, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
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 larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. James is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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James Watson at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
James Watson's Sun was in Aries at the documented birth time. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
James Watson was born on April 6, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
James Watson's birth date, April 6, 1928, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
What stands out in James’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in James Watson's timed chart: Sun in the 4th house, Moon in the 10th house, Jupiter in the 4th house, Uranus in the 4th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in James Watson's timed chart is Moon trine Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Jupiter and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- James Watson combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
James’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MoontrineMarsseparating · 0.0° orb
James’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
SunconjunctionJupiterapplying · 0.2° orb
James’s core identity and growth act as one.
MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 1.0° orb
James’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunsquarePlutoseparating · 1.3° orb
James’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 1.5° orb
James’s growth grinds against their depths.
MoonsextileNeptuneseparating · 2.3° orb
James’s feelings open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MarsoppositionNeptuneseparating · 2.4° orb
James’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
JupitertrineSaturnapplying · 2.6° orb
James’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SuntrineSaturnapplying · 2.8° orb
James’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MercurysquareSaturnseparating · 3.5° orb
James’s mind grinds against their discipline.
VenussquareSaturnseparating · 4.5° orb
James’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 4°27′ · House 5
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has James building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresAquarius 27°39′ · House 2
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. James is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosAquarius 13°43′ · House 2
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. James is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 21°49′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. James is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 14°20′ · House 11
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. James is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Ascendant 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 0.7°
- Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 1.0°
- Ceres trine Moon 1.3°
- Ceres conjunction Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.7°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.5°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.8°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Capricorn; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Moon sign, Libra; disposes Moon; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: James is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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.
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Jupiter, 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 biquintile Mercury 0.4°
- Moon biquintile Venus 0.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.0°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.5°
James’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capricorn | Saturn in Sagittarius, house 12 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aquarius | Uranus in Aries, house 4 | Mars | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Pisces | Neptune in Leo, house 8 | Mercury, Venus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Aries | Mars in Aquarius, house 2 | Sun, Jupiter, Uranus | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 3 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Gemini | Mercury in Pisces, house 3 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Cancer | Moon in Libra, house 10 | Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Leo | Sun in Aries, house 4 | Neptune | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Virgo | Mercury in Pisces, house 3 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 3 | Moon | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Scorpio | Pluto in Cancer, house 7 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Aries, house 4 | Saturn | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
James’s cards
Every card is computed from April 6, 1928, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Hour
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q83333, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Newspaper Enterprise Association, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same James Watson at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Watson’s chart
- What zodiac sign was James Watson?
- James Watson was an Aries: born April 6, 1928, which puts the Sun in Aries at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- What was James Watson's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 6, 1928 birth.
- What time was James Watson born?
- 01:23 local time in Chicago, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was James Watson's rising sign?
- Capricorn rising, calculated from the documented 01:23 birth time in Chicago, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was James Watson's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the April 6, 1928 birth date.
- What was James Watson's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 6, 1928 birth time.
- Where was James Watson's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 14°, in the eleventh house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was James Watson's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
