Jim Pattison
Jim Pattison (born October 1, 1928, Saskatoon, Canada), aged 98, is a Canadian businessman.
Jim Pattison’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dragon, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Jim
Jim Pattison’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical 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
In 1928, 1,237 American boys and 21 girls were registered Jim — 137th among boys and 1,864th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Jim’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
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
4 · 1 · 6 · 7
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
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 1928, 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 Canada's Walk of Fame came in 2018, when Jim Pattison was 90.
The schooling ran through Sauder School of Business and Queen Elizabeth Secondary School.
Julie Andrews (1935) and George Weah (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Sauder School of Business, Queen Elizabeth Secondary School and John Oliver Secondary School
- Awards
- Canada's Walk of Fame (2018)
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
What the chart says
Jim, according to the stars
Core essence
Jim makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Jim 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, Jim is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Jim needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.
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 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. Jim 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: Jim 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 4 is the builder. Jim is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Jim scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
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.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Jim Pattison
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Saskatoon 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 Saskatoon that night
Computed for 52.13°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Saskatoon was Alderamin, in Cepheus, 79.5° up.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 94 catalog stars above the horizon.
Saskatoon sits at 52.1°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −37.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Saskatoon on any night.
The Moon, 91% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 29° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Saskatoon, Canada
- Lives in
- Vancouver
Wikidata records Vancouver as Jim Pattison's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jim Pattison: 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
40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
2 unaspected planets · 2 planets 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.
Score your own chart →Jim Pattison at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Jim Pattison's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 1, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Jim Pattison was born on October 1, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Structure is comfort.
Jim Pattison's birth date, October 1, 1928, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Jim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jim Pattison's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Jim Pattison combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Jim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 16° Taurus 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
stableMoonconjunctionJupiter0.2° to 7.8° orb
Jim’s feelings and growth act as one.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.7° to 1.1° orb
Jim’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.8° to 1.1° orb
Jim’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.1° to 3.3° orb
stableSunoppositionUranus2.5° to 3.6° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune3.2° to 4.1° orb
stableVenustrineMars3.2° to 4.0° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableMercurytrineMars4.3° to 4.8° orb
stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.0° to 6.3° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.6° to 6.1° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 12.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Jim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 9°08′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 5°20′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 26°03′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 18°18′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°13′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 0.0°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.1°
- Ceres trine Mercury 1.3°
- Ceres trine Venus 2.3°
Jim’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 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.
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.6°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Uranus 2.2°
More people like Jim
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- Fred WahCanadian poet (born 1939)
- A. M. RosenthalAmerican journalist
- William ShatnerCanadian actor
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Born in Dragon years
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- Sandra BullockAmerican actress and film producer
- Wangari Muta MaathaiKenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
Also born on October 1
- Julie Andrews1935
- George Weah1966
- Chen-ning Yang1922
- Youssou N’Dour1959
- Zach Galifianakis1969
- Priah Ferguson2006
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Kroy BiermannAmerican football player
- Charles BarkleyAmerican basketball player (born 1963)
- Rosalynn CarterFirst Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Other Libra Dragon charts
- Martin EmersonAmerican football cornerback
- Asim RichardsAmerican football player
- Troy FautanuAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Bryan AngerAmerican football player (born 1988)
Other Evergreen Pioneers
- Greta LeeAmerican actress (born 1983)
- Storm ReidAmerican actress
- D'Pharaoh Woon-A-TaiCanadian actor
- Cat BurnsBritish singer-songwriter
Famous people with Life Path 4
- Willem DafoeAmerican actor
- Jennifer GarnerAmerican actress
- Jake GyllenhaalAmerican actor
From the journal: How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan · The 12 animals and how the race story goes
Jim’s cards
Computed from October 1, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q555549 (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.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Jim Pattison.
Quick answers about Jim Pattison’s chart
- How old is Jim Pattison?
- Jim Pattison is 98 years old, born October 1, 1928 in Saskatoon, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Jim Pattison?
- Jim Pattison is a Libra: born October 1, 1928, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Jim Pattison's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 1, 1928 birth.
- What is Jim Pattison's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jim Pattison's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jim Pattison's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jim Pattison'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 Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
