Lily James
Lily James (born April 5, 1989, Esher, United Kingdom), aged 37, is an English actress. James is best known for Downton Abbey, Swiped and Baby Driver. James's honours include Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Lily James’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Earth Snake, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Snake, with 
Life Path 9 in numerology.Your match with Lily
Lily James’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Lily in the U.S.?
#18
US rank in 2025
~189,789
Americans share it since 1880
2011
its peak year
In 1989, 417 American girls and 6 boys were registered Lily — 545th among girls and 7,533rd among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Lily’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on L (3) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Lily’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
9 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Crimson · Gold
The record
What sets Lily apart
Downton Abbey, Cinderella and Baby Driver. That is the work the name is attached to.
Lily James was taught at Prior's Field School and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Lily James was 21 when the work began in 2010.
The family line: born to James Thomson.
Pharrell Williams (1973) and Sterling K. Brown (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- Downton Abbey, Cinderella and Baby Driver
- Educated at
- Prior's Field School and Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- Nominated for
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Miniseries or Television Film
- Working from
- 2010
- Wikipedia editions
- 58
What the chart says
Lily, according to the stars
Core essence
Lily leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Lily is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Lily wants to be loved
Lily wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Lily creates
How Lily makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Lily creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Lily is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Lily 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Lily scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Lily's birth date. Working below.
Where Lily sits
Six lines
Lily’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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 may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
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 Lily James
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Esher 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 Esher that night
Computed for 51.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Talitha stood nearest the zenith over Esher at 9 p.m. that evening, 86.7° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Esher sits at 51.4°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
How unusual Lily's chart is
Chart pattern score
69 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Pluto · Yod onto Pluto · 3-planet stellium in Aries
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 →Lily James at a glance
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Lily James's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 5, 1989, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Earth Snake
Earth SnakePrivate by design.
Lily James was born on April 5, 1989, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Snake means →Life Path 9
Life Path 9Endings come naturally.
Lily James's birth date, April 5, 1989, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 9 means →What stands out in Lily’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Lily James' date-only chart is Sun conjunction Venus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Venus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Lily James combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Lily’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Pisces or Aries 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
stableSunconjunctionVenus0.0° to 0.3° orb
Lily’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSunsextileMars0.1° to 0.5° orb
Lily’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussextileMars0.1° to 0.7° orb
Lily’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.4° to 1.5° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.4° to 1.2° orb
stableMercurysextileMars0.5° to 2.0° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto0.9° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune1.3° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn1.5° to 2.4° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn1.5° to 2.7° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.9° to 3.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Lily’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 1°55′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 28°45′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 8°51′ (moves 0.95° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 20°38′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 6°19′ (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 square Uranus 1.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.0°
Lily’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn9 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury7 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Lily’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.
Yod onto Pluto · Sun, Mars, PlutoTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Pluto · Venus, Mars, PlutoTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
- Yod onto Mars · Saturn, Pluto, MarsTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
- Yod onto Pluto · Mercury, Mars, PlutoTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Pluto 0.8°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.1°
- Venus quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Mars quincunx Saturn 1.7°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.0°
More people like Lily
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- Aly Michalka1989
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Born in United Kingdom
- Max GeorgeBritish singer
- Matthew LewisEnglish actor (born 1989)
- Jonathan BaileyEnglish actor
- Nicholas HoultEnglish actor
- Lily CollinsBritish-American actress
- Richard GaddScottish writer, actor and comedian
More charts like Lily’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Mariah CareyAmerican singer
- Wangari Muta MaathaiKenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004
- Russell CroweNew Zealand actor
Born in Snake years
- Sarah PinskerAmerican science fiction author
- Alix E. HarrowAmerican science fiction and fantasy author (b. 1989)
- Lena HorneAmerican singer, actress, dancer and activist
Also born on April 5
- Pharrell Williams1973
- Sterling K. Brown1976
- Gregory Peck1916
- Bette Davis1908
- Spencer Tracy1900
- Ivar Giæver1929
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Rachel BilsonAmerican actress
- Miuccia PradaItalian fashion designer and entrepreneur
- Johnny KnoxvilleAmerican stunt performer and actor
Other Aries Snake charts
- Jon GosselinAmerican television personality
- Ben Higginsreality television star
- Piers MorganBritish journalist and television host (born 1965)
- Rob McElhenneyAmerican actor and producer
Other Evergreen Visionarys
- Corin RedgraveBritish actor
- Laura LinneyAmerican actress
- Imogen PootsBritish actress
- Carol ChanningAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 9
- Frederick LoeweAustrian-American composer
- Barbara CookAmerican actress and singer
- Manuel NeuerGerman association football player (born 1986)
From the journal: Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated · Is Western astrology outdated?
Lily’s cards
Computed from April 5, 1989. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HermitAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
9 · Healer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Lily’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q13217306 (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 Eva Rinaldi from Sydney Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Lily James at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Lily James.
Quick answers about Lily James’s chart
- How old is Lily James?
- Lily James is 37 years old, born April 5, 1989 in Esher, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Lily James?
- Lily James is an Aries: born April 5, 1989, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Lily James's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 5, 1989 birth.
- What is Lily James's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
- What is Lily James's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Lily James's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Lily James's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
