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Jim Peebles

Jim Peebles (born April 25, 1935, Winnipeg, Canada), aged 91, is a Canadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics. Peebles's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Bruce Medal and Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.

Jim Peebles’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Pig, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Jim Peebles’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Guardian

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional 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 2,244 American boys and 15 girls named Jim in 1935: 90th among boys and 2,151st 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.

6

Expression · taking responsibility

6

Soul Urge · being needed

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on J (1) and closes on M (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

White · Blush · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1935, 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 Eddington Medal came in 1981, when Jim Peebles was 46.

Study took Jim Peebles to University of Manitoba and Glenlawn Collegiate.

Wikipedia files Jim Peebles under Members of the Order of Manitoba, Canadian cosmologists and Fellows of the American Astronomical Society.

Al Pacino (1940) and Guglielmo Marconi (1874) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Manitoba, Glenlawn Collegiate and Princeton University
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (2019), Bruce Medal (1995) and Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1982)
Citizenship
Canada and United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
65

What the chart says

Jim, according to the stars

Core essence

Jim is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Jim is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

How Jim wants to be loved

Jim wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Jim like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.

How Jim creates

How Jim makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Jim creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Jim is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Jim is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Jim

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Jim

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Jim

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

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 Peebles

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

Jim’s birth-night reference starMerakwhite · Ursa MajorMerak, in Ursa Major. A white star, 82.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Merak →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 37.2° 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 Winnipeg that night

Computed for 49.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Winnipeg at 9 p.m. that evening: Merak of Ursa Major, within 7.1° of the exact zenith.

Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

At 49.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Winnipeg at all: they sit past the −40.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon down and 51% lit at last quarter.

How unusual Jim's chart is

Chart pattern score

58 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Taurus · T-square onto Venus · No Fire planets

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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Jim Peebles in 15 seconds

Taurus Sun

Stubborn is the polite word.

Jim Peebles's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 25, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Wood Pig

Warm, sincere, easy company.

Jim Peebles was born on April 25, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 2

Diplomat by instinct.

Jim Peebles's birth date, April 25, 1935, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Jim’s chart

Jim’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.8° orbMercury fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 1.9° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 2° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.6° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.5° orbSun in Taurus · 4°36′☉4°Moon in Capricorn · 29°00′☽29°Mercury in Taurus · 2°35′☿2°Venus in Gemini · 11°10′♀11°Mars in Libra · 9°16′ · retrograde♂℞9°Jupiter in Scorpio · 20°12′ · retrograde♃℞20°Saturn in Pisces · 7°42′♄7°Uranus in Taurus · 1°37′♅1°Neptune in Virgo · 12°00′ · retrograde♆℞12°Pluto in Cancer · 23°54′♇23°

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

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus0.0° to 2.0° orb

    Jim’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune0.2° to 1.4° orb

    Jim’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenustrineMars1.2° to 2.6° orb

    Jim’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury1.4° to 2.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus2.5° to 3.4° orb

  • stableSunsextileSaturn2.7° to 3.5° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn2.9° to 4.0° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto3.6° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSaturnoppositionNeptune4.3° to 4.4° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.5° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth5 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: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironGemini 7°28′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 26°34′ (moves 0.28° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 18°24′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 13°56′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 1°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Saturn 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.3°
  • Chiron trine Mars 1.8°
  • Eros square Jupiter 1.8°
  • Ceres conjunction Pluto 2.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 2.8°

Jim’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Venus, Neptune; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Jim’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, 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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Saturn, Neptune, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.2°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 1.6°

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Jim’s cards

Computed from April 25, 1935. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q728331 (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 Juan Diego Soler, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

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

Quick answers about Jim Peebles’s chart

How old is Jim Peebles?
Jim Peebles is 91 years old, born April 25, 1935 in Winnipeg, Canada.
What zodiac sign is Jim Peebles?
Jim Peebles is a Taurus: born April 25, 1935, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Jim Peebles's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 25, 1935 birth.
What is Jim Peebles's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Jim Peebles's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jim Peebles's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jim Peebles's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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