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Jim Walton

Jim Walton (born June 7, 1948, Newport, United States), aged 78, is an American businessman.

Jim Walton’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Jim Walton’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Storyteller

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental 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

Of the names registered in 1948, Jim came 86th among boys and 3,237th among girls, carried by 3,808 American boys and 11 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Jim’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

7

Soul Urge · understanding

11

Personality · perceptive

The name opens on J (1) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against 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

8 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Emerald, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Lilac · Gold

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 1948, 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

Training came by way of University of Arkansas.

Jim Walton was born to Helen Walton and Sam Walton, married Lynne McNabb and raised 4 children.

Orhan Pamuk (1952) and Prince (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Arkansas
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
29

What the chart says

Jim, according to the stars

Core essence

Jim is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Jim needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.

The vibe

Underneath, Jim processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Jim needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Jim wants to be loved

Jim wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Jim gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Jim creates

How Jim makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Jim creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Jim is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Jim is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Jim 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 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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

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 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 Jim Walton

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

Jim’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 86.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 10.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

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

The sky over Newport that night

Computed for 35.61°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Newport at 9 p.m. that evening: Cor Caroli of Canes Venatici, within 3.3° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 85 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 35.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −54.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Newport on any night.

The Moon, 1% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 7° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Newport, United States
Lives in
Bentonville

Wikidata records Bentonville as Jim Walton'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 Walton: 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

22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

Venus retrograde · A leaning bowl

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 Walton in 15 seconds

Gemini Sun

Two minds, both talking.

Jim Walton's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 7, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Gemini means →

Earth Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Jim Walton was born on June 7, 1948, which falls in a Earth Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 8

Power, and the bill for it.

Jim Walton's birth date, June 7, 1948, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 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 12° to 26° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.5° orbJupiter faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 0.7° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.1° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.2° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.9° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.1° orbSun fuses with Moon · Conjunction, 2.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.7° orbSun in Gemini · 16°49′☉16°Moon in Gemini · 19°03′☽19°Mercury in Cancer · 6°44′☿6°Venus in Cancer · 10°44′ · retrograde♀℞10°Mars in Virgo · 8°51′♂8°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 25°02′ · retrograde♃℞25°Saturn in Leo · 18°00′♄17°Uranus in Gemini · 25°43′♅25°Neptune in Libra · 10°16′ · retrograde♆℞10°Pluto in Leo · 12°59′♇12°

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

  • stableVenussquareNeptune0.4° to 0.6° orb

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

  • stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.6° to 0.8° orb

    Jim’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunsextileSaturn0.7° to 1.6° orb

    Jim’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableVenussextileMars1.5° to 2.2° orb

  • stableMercurysextileMars2.0° to 2.2° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.7° orb

  • stableSunsextilePluto3.4° to 4.3° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune3.4° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.8° to 4.2° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • possibleSunconjunctionMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 13.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable5 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.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 19°44′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 18°50′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 5°29′ (moves 0.84° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 15°28′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 25°05′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.6°
  • Ceres sextile Saturn 0.8°
  • Chiron square Saturn 1.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Sun 2.0°

Jim’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury9 pts

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

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 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.

  • Mars quintile Uranus 1.1°
  • Mars semi-sextile Neptune 1.4°

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Jim’s cards

Computed from June 7, 1948. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Star

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Storyteller

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

8 · Achiever

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q741784 (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 Walton.

Quick answers about Jim Walton’s chart

How old is Jim Walton?
Jim Walton is 78 years old, born June 7, 1948 in Newport, United States.
What zodiac sign is Jim Walton?
Jim Walton is a Gemini: born June 7, 1948, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
What is Jim Walton's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 7, 1948 birth.
What is Jim Walton's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Jim Walton's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Jim Walton's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Jim Walton's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Mars, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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