Jim Wayne Miller
Jim Wayne Miller (born October 21, 1936, Leicester, United States; died 1996), was an American poet and educator. Miller served as poet laureate.
Jim Wayne Miller’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Jim
Jim Wayne Miller’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, 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
The SSA recorded 2,268 American boys and 7 girls named Jim in 1936: 85th among boys and 3,536th 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.
7
Expression · depth and research
2
Soul Urge · closeness
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
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
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy
Amber · Blush · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1936, 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
Study took Jim Wayne Miller to Berea College and Vanderbilt University.
Wikipedia files Jim Wayne Miller under Western Kentucky University faculty, People from Buncombe County, North Carolina and Berea College alumni.
Alfred Nobel (1833) and Benjamin Netanyahu (1949) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Berea College and Vanderbilt University
- Languages
- English, German and American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
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 steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Jim needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn 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 light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Jim creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Jim is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
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.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 Wayne Miller
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Leicester 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 Leicester that night
Computed for 35.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Leicester at 9 p.m. that evening: Scheat of Pegasus, within 10.2° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 88 catalog stars were up in all.
Leicester sits at 35.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −54.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Leicester on any night.
Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon up and 36% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Leicester, United States
- Lived in
- Nashville · Berea
Wikidata records Nashville and Berea as Jim Wayne Miller's home, against Leicester as the birthplace.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Jim Wayne Miller: 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
T-square onto Jupiter
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 →The quick version
Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Jim Wayne Miller's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 21, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Jim Wayne Miller was born on October 21, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Jim Wayne Miller's birth date, October 21, 1936, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Jim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jim Wayne Miller's date-only chart is Sun square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Jim Wayne Miller combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Jim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 0° to 13° Capricorn 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
stableVenustrinePluto0.0° to 1.2° orb
Jim’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSunsquarePluto0.1° to 1.1° orb
Jim’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarsoppositionSaturn0.6° to 1.3° orb
Jim’s drive pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune1.5° orb
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune2.2° to 2.8° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.0° to 5.2° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter5.8° to 6.2° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 2.8° to 14.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 3.1° to 14.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Jim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 23°06′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 12°19′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 20°17′ (moves 0.69° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°06′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 1°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Mercury 1.0°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Jupiter 1.6°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.3°
- Hygiea trine Saturn 2.4°
- Hygiea square Mercury 2.8°
Jim’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Jim’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Mars, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn 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.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.6°
- Venus quintile Mars 0.6°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 1.2°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.4°
- Mercury semi-square Venus 1.8°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.8°
More people like Jim
Other writers
- Fred Chappell1936
- Lanford Wilson1937
- Mary Oliver1935
- C. K. Williams1936
- Kenneth Silverman1936
- Gurney Norman1937
Born in United States
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- Larry McMurtryAmerican novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
- Michael KammenAmerican historian
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- Mary Tyler MooreAmerican actress and television producer
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Fellow Libra suns
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on October 21
- Alfred Nobel1833
- Benjamin Netanyahu1949
- Kim Kardashian1980
- Carrie Fisher1956
- Doja Cat1995
- Glen Powell1988
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Leah ReminiAmerican actress (born 1970)
- Rachel RoyAmerican fashion designer
- Lola SheenAmerican media personality (born 2005)
Other Libra Rat charts
- Jean ArthurAmerican actress
- Pablo RagoArgentine actor
- Mervyn LeRoyAmerican film director and producer
- Hermann Emil FischerGerman chemist
Other Radiant Pioneers
- Susie WilesChief of Staff to President of the United States
- Yoo Jae-sukSouth Korean comedian, presenter
- SnookiAmerican reality television personality
- Gout GoutSouth Sudanese-Australian athlete
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Kenzaburō ŌeJapanese writer and Nobel Laureate
- John Robert SchriefferAmerican physicist
- Georges J. F. KöhlerGerman immunologist
From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Jim’s cards
Computed from October 21, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q20657338 (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 Wayne Miller 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 Wayne Miller.
Quick answers about Jim Wayne Miller’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jim Wayne Miller?
- Jim Wayne Miller was a Libra: born October 21, 1936, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Jim Wayne Miller's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 21, 1936 birth.
- What was Jim Wayne Miller's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Jim Wayne Miller's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Jim Wayne Miller's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 1°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jim Wayne Miller's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
