Jim Yardley
Jim Yardley (born June 18, 1964, New York City, United States), aged 62, is an American journalist. Yardley's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, George Polk Award and The Sidney Award.
Jim Yardley’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Dragon, with 
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Jim Yardley’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Jim’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌿 Fern
Rose pink · Lilac · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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 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 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 are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Jim creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
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: 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Jim Yardley at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Jim Yardley's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 18, 1964, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Wood Dragon
Wood DragonSets the standard, then raises it.
Jim Yardley was born on June 18, 1964, which falls in a Wood Dragon year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Turns effort into standing.
Jim Yardley's birth date, June 18, 1964, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Jim’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Jim Yardley's date-only chart is Jupiter opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jim Yardley combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Jim’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Jim Yardley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune0.0° to 0.2° orb
Jim’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMoontrineMercury0.1° to 5.4° orb
Jim’s feelings flow straight into their mind.
stableSunconjunctionVenus1.2° to 2.8° orb
Jim’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb
Jim’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableJupitertrinePluto3.6° to 3.8° orb
Jim’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.6° to 3.7° orb
Jim’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMarssquareSaturn3.8° to 4.5° orb
Jim’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMercurysquarePluto4.3° to 6.3° orb
Jim’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenustrineSaturn5.3° to 5.9° orb
Jim’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareUranus5.3° to 6.0° orb
Jim’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto5.3° orb
Jim’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto6.7° to 6.8° orb
Jim’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire0 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.
Jim’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 18°48′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Jim absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ Ceres ℞Capricorn 0°38′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Jim caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCancer 9°39′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Jim is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaGemini 16°12′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Jim needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 17°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Jim leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 0.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Mercury 0.9°
- Ceres opposition Venus 1.2°
- Chiron square Mercury 1.7°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.1°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Jim’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Jim is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Jim’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Venus, MarsThree 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 Mars · Saturn, Uranus, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.0°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Jim Yardley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Jim’s cards
Every card is computed from June 18, 1964, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Jim Yardley, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Jim’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6199052, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
The same Jim Yardley at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jim Yardley.
Quick answers about Jim Yardley’s chart
- How old is Jim Yardley?
- Jim Yardley is 62 years old, born June 18, 1964 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Jim Yardley?
- Jim Yardley is a Gemini: born June 18, 1964, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Dragon.
- What is Jim Yardley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 18, 1964 birth.
- What time was Jim Yardley born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Jim Yardley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the June 18, 1964 birth date.
- What is Jim Yardley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 18, 1964 birth date.
- Where is Jim Yardley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Jim Yardley's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
