Rick James
Rick James (born James Ambrose Johnson, Jr.; February 1, 1948, Buffalo, United States; died 2004), was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Best-known releases include Street Songs, Bustin' Out of L Seven and Come Get It!.
Rick James’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Rick
Rick James’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Rick in the U.S.?
#3077
US rank in 2025
~81,964
Americans share it since 1919
1958
its peak year
Rick ranked 174th in 1948, the year of this birth, with 1,279 American boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Rick’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name James Ambrose Johnson, Jr., not the name they published under.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on J (1) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Rick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Violet · Ivory · Flame orange
The record
What sets Rick apart
Gabriel Batistuta (1969) and Lisa Marie Presley (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Rick, according to the stars
Core essence
Rick is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Rick is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Rick feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Rick needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Rick wants to be loved
Rick wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Rick, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Rick creates
How Rick 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. Rick 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: Rick is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Rick 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Rick 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 Rick's birth date. Working below.
Where Rick sits
Six lines
Rick’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 likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Rick James
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buffalo 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 Buffalo that night
Computed for 42.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Buffalo was Capella, in Auriga, 85.8° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 42.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Buffalo at all: they sit past the −47.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 50% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- James Ambrose Johnson, Jr.
- Known as
- Rick James
- Born in
- Buffalo, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Rick James: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Rick's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
T-square onto Venus · Five planets retrograde · 1 planet at a critical degree
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 →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Rick James's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 1, 1948, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Fire Pig
Fire PigGives more than it gets.
Rick James was born on February 1, 1948, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
Rick James's birth date, February 1, 1948, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Rick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Rick James' date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Rick James combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Rick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Scorpio 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
stableSuntrineNeptune0.6° to 1.7° orb
Rick’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiteroppositionUranus0.9° to 1.1° orb
Rick’s growth pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.9° orb
Rick’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionPluto1.5° to 2.6° orb
stableJupitertrineSaturn1.5° to 1.8° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus2.6° orb
stableVenussquareJupiter3.1° to 4.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionMars3.4° to 5.0° orb
stableVenussquareUranus4.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnconjunctionPluto6.0° to 6.1° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Rick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironScorpio 23°37′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 1°40′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 3°11′ (moves 0.63° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 21°10′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 10°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Jupiter 0.3°
- Eros opposition Mars 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Sun 0.8°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.1°
- Ceres trine Mars 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Pluto 2.9°
Rick’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Rick’s chart
T-square onto Venus · Jupiter, Uranus, VenusAn 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.
- Mars quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.7°
- Venus quincunx Saturn 2.0°
More people like Rick
Other composers
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- Henry Threadgill1944
- Lionel Richie1949
- Freddie Mercury1946
- John Luther Adams1953
- Tania León1943
Born in United States
- William GibsonAmerican-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
- Joe WalshAmerican rock musician
- Steven ChuAmerican physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate
- Ted DansonAmerican actor (born 1947)
- Dianne WiestAmerican actress
- Richard DreyfussAmerican actor (born 1947)
More charts like Rick’s
Fellow Aquarius suns
- Jerry SpringerAmerican television personality and politician
- George StephanopoulosAmerican government official, journalist, writer
- Mena SuvariAmerican actress, fashion designer, model (born 1979)
Born in Pig years
- Fred AstaireAmerican dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer
- Barbara HersheyAmerican actress
- Diahann CarrollAmerican actress, singer, model and activist
Also born on February 1
- Gabriel Batistuta1969
- Lisa Marie Presley1968
- Ronda Rousey1987
- Michael C. Hall1971
- Lauren Conrad1986
- Harry Styles1994
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Calvin KleinAmerican fashion designer
- Jaden SmithAmerican rapper and actor
- Jane CampionNew Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer
Other Aquarius Pig charts
- Cherif NdiayeSenegalese footballer (born 1996)
- Joshua KimmichGerman association football player (born 1995)
- Mario PašalićCroatian footballer
- Ibrahim MbayeFrench-Senegalese footballer of Senegalese and Moroccan descent (born 2008)
Other Radiant Lightkeepers
- Kadim Al SahirIraqi singer and composer
- Abdoul Razak IssoufouNigerien taekwondo athlete
- Linus SebastianCanadian YouTuber
- Amanda CernyAmerican internet personality
Famous people with Life Path 7
- David PeoplesAmerican screenwriter
- Allen SteeleAmerican science fiction writer
- David GerroldAmerican science fiction screenwriter and novelist
From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Rick’s cards
Computed from February 1, 1948. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
丁
yin Fire
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Rick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q248207 (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 Leach Entertainment Features, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Rick James at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Rick James.
Quick answers about Rick James’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Rick James?
- Rick James was an Aquarius: born February 1, 1948, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Rick James's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 1, 1948 birth.
- What was Rick James's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Rick James's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Scorpio at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Rick James's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Rick James's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
