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James Whitmore

James Whitmore (born October 1, 1921, White Plains, United States; died 2009), was an American actor. Whitmore's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Tony Award for Best Newcomer and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

James Whitmore’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Metal Rooster, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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James Whitmore’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 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, 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

James ranked 4th among boys and 455th among girls in 1921, the year of this birth, with 49,750 American boys and 231 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.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

6 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Magnolia

Amber · Blush · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1921, 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 Whitmore took the Theatre World Award in 1948, at 27.

Choate Rosemary Hall and Amherst Central High School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 1949, at 28.

Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer.

James Whitmore was married Audra Lindley and Noreen Nash and raised one child.

Wikipedia's editors put James Whitmore under Amherst Central High School alumni, Male actors from White Plains, New York and Choate Rosemary Hall alumni.

Julie Andrews (1935) and George Weah (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Choate Rosemary Hall, Amherst Central High School and Yale College
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (1950), Theatre World Award (1948) and Tony Award for Best Newcomer (1948)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Actor and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1949
Cause of death
lung cancer
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
41

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 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 attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with James and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

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 sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. James is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means James channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
James

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
James

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
James

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
James

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
James

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
James

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to James Whitmore

Three stars chosen from the real sky above White Plains on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

James’s birth-night reference starDenebwhite · CygnusDeneb, in Cygnus. A white star, 77.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Deneb →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 16.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over White Plains that night

Computed for 41.03°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Deneb stood nearest the zenith over White Plains at 9 p.m. that evening, 77.1° above the horizon in Cygnus.

Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

From 41.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 37° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
White Plains, United States

The death is recorded at Malibu, Los Angeles County in 2009.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for James Whitmore: 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

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

1 planet at a critical degree

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Libra Sun

Makes the peace, keeps the peace.

James Whitmore's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 1, 1921, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Metal Rooster

Candid to a fault.

James Whitmore was born on October 1, 1921, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 6

Care is the whole job.

James Whitmore's birth date, October 1, 1921, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in James’s chart

James’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 17° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.2° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.5° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1° orbMars faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 1.2° orbJupiter fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 2° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.1° orbMars opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbSun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 2.6° orbSun in Libra · 7°58′☉7°Moon in Libra · 10°33′☽10°Mercury in Scorpio · 2°30′☿2°Venus in Virgo · 6°42′♀6°Mars in Virgo · 7°41′♂7°Jupiter in Libra · 1°14′♃1°Saturn in Virgo · 29°16′♄29°Uranus in Pisces · 6°30′ · retrograde♅℞6°Neptune in Leo · 15°21′♆15°Pluto in Cancer · 10°03′♇10°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus0.0° to 0.8° orb

    James’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars0.7° to 1.3° orb

    James’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus0.9° to 1.5° orb

    James’s drive pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsquarePluto1.6° to 2.6° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMarssextilePluto2.1° to 2.7° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto2.7° to 3.9° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus3.4° to 4.6° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableMercurysextileVenus4.2° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.3° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

James’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 11°51′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 19°30′ (moves 0.46° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Pisces 10°51′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 13°11′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 19°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Pluto 0.8°
  • Chiron square Pluto 1.8°
  • Hygiea sextile Neptune 2.2°

James’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects

Configurations in James’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.3°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.9°
  • Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.3°
  • Sun quincunx Uranus 1.5°

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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained

James’s cards

Computed from October 1, 1921. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Diplomat

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

James’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313040 (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.

Portrait by Campbell-Ewald Company, advertising agency for the show's sponsor, Chevrolet. Ad or publicity agencies often distributed publicity materials on behalf of studios, program sponsors and networks in the 1950s and 1960s.., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same James Whitmore at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by James Whitmore.

Quick answers about James Whitmore’s chart

What zodiac sign was James Whitmore?
James Whitmore was a Libra: born October 1, 1921, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was James Whitmore's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 1, 1921 birth.
What was James Whitmore's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What was James Whitmore's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 11°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was James Whitmore's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 19°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was James Whitmore's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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