Marlon James
Marlon James (born November 24, 1970, Kingston, Jamaica), aged 55, is a Jamaican novelist. James is best known for A Brief History of Seven Killings and The Book of Night Women. James's honours include Booker Prize, American Book Awards and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Marlon James’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dog, with 
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Marlon James’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Marlon in the U.S.?
#1105
US rank in 2025
~31,292
Americans share it since 1880
1972
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Marlon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Rose-gold · Silver
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Marlon, according to the stars
Core essence
Marlon is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Marlon is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Marlon 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 Marlon 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 Marlon wants to be loved
Marlon 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 Marlon even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Marlon creates
How Marlon 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. Marlon 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: Marlon is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Marlon is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Marlon fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Marlon's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Marlon sits
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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.
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The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunNeeds a horizon, any horizon.
Marlon James's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 24, 1970, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Metal Dog
Metal DogFair, direct, dependable.
Marlon James was born on November 24, 1970, which falls in a Metal Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Marlon James's birth date, November 24, 1970, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Marlon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Marlon James' date-only chart is Sun conjunction Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Marlon James combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Marlon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Marlon James, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 18° 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.
stableMoonconjunctionUranus0.0° to 6.6° orb
Marlon’s feelings and need for freedom act as one.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune0.9° to 1.8° orb
Marlon’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.4° orb
Marlon’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn1.6° to 1.9° orb
Marlon’s growth pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunsextilePluto2.2° to 3.2° orb
Marlon’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn7.4° to 7.6° orb
Marlon’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 3.8° to 15.4° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileMarsorb from 4.4° to 5.2° depending on birth time
possibleMercurysextileUranusorb from 4.6° to 6.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 7.4° to 19.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Marlon’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°06′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Marlon may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 24°43′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Marlon looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosAquarius 3°33′ (moves 0.52° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Marlon is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaLeo 16°40′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Marlon at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 9°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Marlon exacting with themselves first.
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.
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.9°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.4°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.5°
- Ceres opposition Mars 2.3°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.9°
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°).
Marlon’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. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Marlon is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Marlon’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 Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, 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.
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.
- Saturn biquintile Uranus 0.1°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 0.5°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Marlon James, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Marlon’s cards
Every card is computed from November 24, 1970, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Marlon James, 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
Marlon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16211564, 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.
Portrait by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Marlon James at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
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 Marlon James.
Quick answers about Marlon James’s chart
- How old is Marlon James?
- Marlon James is 55 years old, born November 24, 1970 in Kingston, Jamaica.
- What zodiac sign is Marlon James?
- Marlon James is a Sagittarius: born November 24, 1970, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dog.
- What is Marlon James's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 24, 1970 birth.
- What time was Marlon James 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 Marlon James's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the November 24, 1970 birth date.
- What is Marlon James's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 24, 1970 birth date.
- Where is Marlon James's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Marlon James's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
