Jim Ratcliffe
Jim Ratcliffe (born October 18, 1952, Failsworth, United Kingdom), aged 74, is a British chemical engineer turned financier and industrialist.
Jim Ratcliffe’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Water Dragon, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Jim
Jim Ratcliffe’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Visionary
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, 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
In 1952, 1,523 American boys were registered Jim — 172nd 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.
4
Expression · building what holds
6
Soul Urge · being needed
7
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
9 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1952, 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 Knight Bachelor came in 2018, when Jim Ratcliffe was 66.
Jim Ratcliffe was taught at Beverley Grammar School and London Business School.
Zohran Mamdani (1991) and Ne-Yo (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Beverley Grammar School, London Business School and University of Birmingham
- Awards
- Knight Bachelor (2018)
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 26
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 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 Jim 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 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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Jim 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: 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Jim is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Jim does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
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 may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Ratcliffe
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Failsworth 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 Failsworth that night
Computed for 53.51°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Alderamin stood nearest the zenith over Failsworth at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.6° above the horizon in Cepheus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 95 catalog stars were up in all.
From 53.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Failsworth at all: they sit past the −36.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 0% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 26° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Failsworth, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Monaco
Wikidata records Monaco as Jim Ratcliffe'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 Ratcliffe: 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
60 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Libra · 2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Pluto
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunCharming. Still deciding.
Jim Ratcliffe's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 18, 1952, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Dragon
Water DragonBig energy, bigger plans.
Jim Ratcliffe was born on October 18, 1952, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Carries the whole room's weight.
Jim Ratcliffe's birth date, October 18, 1952, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Jim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jim Ratcliffe's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jim Ratcliffe combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Visionary.
Jim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Libra 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
stableMoonconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 6.8° orb
Jim’s feelings and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableJupitersextileUranus0.0° to 0.2° orb
Jim’s growth opens doors for their need for freedom. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareUranus0.3° to 0.4° orb
Jim’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableSunsextilePluto1.6° to 2.6° orb
stableVenussquarePluto1.9° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune2.7° to 2.8° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.0° to 3.9° orb
stableUranussquareNeptune3.0° to 3.1° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.1° to 4.2° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn5.7° to 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable0 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Jim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCapricorn 7°34′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 17°27′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 4°56′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 25°33′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 22°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Venus 0.1°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 1.1°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.4°
- Hygiea square Pluto 2.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 2.8°
Jim’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6 pts
disposes Mars; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Jim’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Saturn, NeptuneThree 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 onto Pluto · Venus, Jupiter, PlutoAn 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.
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.9°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.9°
More people like Jim
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Born in Dragon years
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- Elsa PatakySpanish model and actress
Also born on October 18
- Zohran Mamdani1991
- Ne-Yo1979
- Brittney Griner1990
- Zac Efron1987
- Martina Navratilova1956
- Bristol Palin1990
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- Ermin MahmićBosnia and Herzegovina association football player (born 2005)
- Gilberto MoraMexican footballer (born 2008)
- Alvin KamaraAmerican football player
Other Libra Dragon charts
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- Choi Jong-hoSouth Korean singer and actor
- Princess Salma bint Abdullah of JordanJordanian Royal
Other Radiant Visionarys
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Famous people with Life Path 9
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Jim’s cards
Computed from October 18, 1952. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The MoonAsterNym identity card
The Radiant VisionaryWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
9 · Healer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1440023 (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 Ratcliffe.
Quick answers about Jim Ratcliffe’s chart
- How old is Jim Ratcliffe?
- Jim Ratcliffe is 74 years old, born October 18, 1952 in Failsworth, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Jim Ratcliffe?
- Jim Ratcliffe is a Libra: born October 18, 1952, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Jim Ratcliffe's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 18, 1952 birth.
- What is Jim Ratcliffe's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Jim Ratcliffe's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Capricorn at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Jim Ratcliffe's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jim Ratcliffe's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
