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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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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

In 1984, 23 American boys were registered Theo — 2,285th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Theo’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Theodore Peter James Kinnairdd Taptiklis, not the name they published under.

7

Expression · depth and research

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on T (2) and closes on E (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Theo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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 record

What sets Theo apart

The schooling ran through Aylesbury Grammar School and University of Nottingham.

Theo James was 26 when the work began in 2010.

Theo James was married Ruth Kearney.

Arthur C. Clarke (1917) and Zara Larsson (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Aylesbury Grammar School, University of Nottingham and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Instruments
piano, harmonica, guitar and saxophone
Working from
2010
Wikipedia editions
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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. Working below.

Where Theo sits

Six lines

Theo’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Theo

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Theo

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Theo

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Theo

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Theo

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Theo

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Theo James

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oxford on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Theo’s birth-night reference starMiramwarm orange · PerseusMiram, in Perseus. A warm orange star, 85.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Miram →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 63.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Oxford that night

Computed for 51.75°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Oxford was Miram, in Perseus, 85.6° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

At 51.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Oxford at all: they sit past the −38.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 36% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 45° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Theodore Peter James Kinnairdd Taptiklis
Known as
Theo James
Born in
Oxford, United Kingdom

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Theo James: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Theo's chart is

Chart pattern score

65 / 100 · Unusual

A bundled chart · 3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 unaspected planet

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.

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Sagittarius Sun

Truth 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.

What Sagittarius means →

Wood Rat

Resourceful is an understatement.

Theo James was born on December 16, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Theo James's birth date, December 16, 1984, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Theo’s chart

Theo’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 13° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.1° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.4° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 2.6° orbMercury opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 3.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 4.5° orbVenus grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.6° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 5.1° orbSun in Sagittarius · 24°43′☉24°Moon in Libra · 5°59′☽5°Mercury in Sagittarius · 20°13′ · retrograde☿℞20°Venus in Aquarius · 8°37′♀8°Mars in Aquarius · 23°18′♂23°Jupiter in Capricorn · 17°55′♃17°Saturn in Scorpio · 23°09′♄23°Uranus in Sagittarius · 14°27′♅14°Neptune in Capricorn · 0°54′♆0°Pluto in Scorpio · 3°58′♇3°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • 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

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.3° to 5.7° orb

  • stableVenussquarePluto4.1° to 5.2° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus5.1° to 6.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune5.7° to 6.7° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 4°53′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 11°44′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 7°53′ (moves 0.57° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 20°37′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 11°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Theo’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    3 major aspects

Configurations in Theo’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 1.2°
  • Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.6°

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Theo’s cards

Computed from December 16, 1984. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Theo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q568509 (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 Margaret Gardiner, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Theo James at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
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 is Theo James's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Theo James's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Gemini at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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