What zodiac sign was Jim Murray?

Jim Murray was a Capricorn: born December 29, 1919, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.

What was Jim Murray's Chinese zodiac animal?

The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 29, 1919 birth.

What was Jim Murray's Life Path number?

Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.

What was Jim Murray's Chiron sign?

Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.

Where was Jim Murray's Black Moon Lilith?

Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.

What was Jim Murray's dominant planet?

Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

Jim Murray

Jim Murray (born December 29, 1919, Hartford, United States; died 1998), was an American journalist. Murray's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and Golden Plate Award.

Jim Murray’s zodiac sign was Capricorn, Chinese zodiac was Earth Goat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

Your match with Jim

Jim Murray’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Visionary

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Jim in the U.S.?

#3159

US rank in 2025

~153,938

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

The SSA recorded 848 American boys and 16 girls named Jim in 1919: 158th among boys and 2,194th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jim’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

Expression · sensing what is coming

Soul Urge · solid ground

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on J (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Jim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Frost white · Ivory · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1919, 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 Jim apart

The Golden Plate Award came in 1964, when Jim Murray was 45.

Study took Jim Murray to Trinity College.

The record gives myocardial infarction as the cause, and Holy Cross Cemetery as the resting place.

Wikipedia files Jim Murray under Sports Illustrated people, Sportswriters from Connecticut and BBWAA Career Excellence Award recipients.

Jude Law (1972) and Victor Osimhen (1998) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at: Trinity College
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1990) and Golden Plate Award (1964)
Cause of death: myocardial infarction
Buried at: Holy Cross Cemetery
Citizenship: United States
Wikipedia editions: 4

What the chart says

Jim, according to the stars

Core essence

Jim is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Jim 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 Jim wants to be loved

Jim wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Jim even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Jim creates

How Jim makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Jim creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.

Instinct

Instinct: Jim 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Jim 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. Jim fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.

Computed from Jim's birth date. Working below.

Where Jim sits

Six lines

Jim’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network

Jim

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous

Jim

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

PrivateExpressive

Jim

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately

Jim

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

PracticalVisionary

Jim

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry

Jim

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Jim Murray

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

Jim’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 83.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 73° 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 Hartford that night

Computed for 41.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Hartford at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkib of Perseus, within 6.8° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.

Hartford sits at 41.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −48.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hartford on any night.

The Moon was at first quarter, 49% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 49° down.

The name and the places

Born in: Hartford, United States

The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1998.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jim Murray: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Jim's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

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

Capricorn Sun

Plays the long game. Wins it.

Jim Murray's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 29, 1919, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Earth Goat

Gentle hands, strong opinions.

Jim Murray was born on December 29, 1919, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 7

Needs the quiet to work.

Jim Murray's birth date, December 29, 1919, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 7 means →

What stands out in Jim’s chart

The tightest major aspect in Jim Murray's date-only chart is Sun opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
Jim Murray combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.

Jim’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

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

stableSunoppositionPluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
Jim’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineJupiter0.0° to 1.2° orb
Jim’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileMars0.8° to 1.7° orb
Jim’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileJupiter1.5° to 2.1° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune4.1° to 4.6° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn4.3° to 5.7° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune4.9° to 6.3° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.9° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.0° to 6.1° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter5.5° to 6.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune6.1° to 6.2° orb

Chart signature

Elements

Fire4 of 10
Earth2 of 10
Air2 of 10
Water2 of 10

Modalities

Cardinal4 of 10
Fixed4 of 10
Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

⚷ ChironAries 2°35′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresPisces 27°20′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 28°40′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 15°16′ (moves 0.17° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 7°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Hygiea trine Mars 0.1°
Eros conjunction Uranus 0.2°
Hygiea opposition Mercury 1.4°
Hygiea sextile Jupiter 1.9°

Jim’s dominant planets

1. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mercury; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Jim’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.

Mercury quintile Uranus 0.2°
Venus quintile Saturn 0.3°
Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.6°
Sun semi-square Venus 1.4°
Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.5°
Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.6°

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All about Capricorn →

Born in Goat years

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Andrea PirloItalian association football player and manager
Benjamin ŠeškoSlovenian association football player (born 2003)

Year of the Goat →

Also born on December 29

Fellow Yin Wood day masters

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Jacques MonodFrench biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate

What a Day Master is →

Other Capricorn Goat charts

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Other Evergreen Visionarys

Bill MarriottAmerican businessman
Anthony BamfordBritish businessman (born 1945)
Koo Bon-neungSouth Korean billionaire (born 1949)
Igor RotenbergRussian billionaire

The Evergreen Visionary explained →

Famous people with Life Path 7

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Patrick StewartBritish actor (born 1940)

Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Jim’s cards

Computed from December 29, 1919. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Tower

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

7 · Seeker

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

乙

yin Wood

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q15497300 (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 Jim Murray at Wikipedia.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jim Murray.

Quick answers about Jim Murray’s chart

What zodiac sign was Jim Murray?: Jim Murray was a Capricorn: born December 29, 1919, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What was Jim Murray's Chinese zodiac animal?: The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 29, 1919 birth.
What was Jim Murray's Life Path number?: Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
What was Jim Murray's Chiron sign?: Chiron in Aries at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Jim Murray's Black Moon Lilith?: Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Jim Murray's dominant planet?: Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.