Theo James
Theo James (born Theodore Peter James Kinnairdd Taptiklis; December 16, 1984, Oxford, United Kingdom), aged 41, is a British actor and musician. Notable films include Downton Abbey, The Divergent Series: Insurgent and The White Lotus.
Theo James’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rat, with 
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Theo James’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Theo in the U.S.?
#82
US rank in 2025
~39,333
Americans share it since 1880
2023
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Theo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Theo, according to the stars
Core essence
Theo is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Theo 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.
How Theo wants to be loved
Theo wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Theo be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Theo creates
How Theo makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Theo builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Theo 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Theo 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: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Theo goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Theo's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Theo sits
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
Theo James's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 16, 1984, 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.
Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
Theo James was born on December 16, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Theo James's birth date, December 16, 1984, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Theo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Theo James' date-only chart is Mars square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Theo James combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Theo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Theo James, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Virgo or 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.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
Theo’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSunsextileMars1.3° to 1.6° orb
Theo’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableMercurysextileMars2.0° to 4.1° orb
Theo’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° orb
Theo’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 5.7° orb
Theo’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquarePluto4.1° to 5.2° orb
Theo’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus5.1° to 6.5° orb
Theo’s mind and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.7° to 6.7° orb
Theo’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 9.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 1.4° to 15.5° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 4.7° to 17.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Theo’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 ℞Gemini 4°53′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Theo turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 11°44′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Theo is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAquarius 7°53′ (moves 0.57° 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. Theo is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 20°37′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Theo is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 11°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Theo carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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 sextile Mercury 0.4°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.7°
- Hygiea square Saturn 2.5°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.7°
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°).
Theo’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. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Theo 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 Theo’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, UranusThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
- Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Theo James, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Theo’s cards
Every card is computed from December 16, 1984, 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 Wood.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Theo 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
Theo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q568509, 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 Margaret Gardiner, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Theo James at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 Theo James.
Quick answers about Theo James’s chart
- How old is Theo James?
- Theo James is 41 years old, born December 16, 1984 in Oxford, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Theo James?
- Theo James is a Sagittarius: born December 16, 1984, 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 Wood Rat.
- What is Theo James's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 16, 1984 birth.
- What time was Theo 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 Theo James's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 16, 1984 birth date.
- What is Theo James's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 16, 1984 birth date.
- Where is Theo James's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Theo James's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus). Pluto is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
