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James Coburn

James Coburn’s birth chart

Born August 31, 1928 in Laurel, birth time not public.

Virgo Sun · Pisces Moon · Earth · Mutable

Sun

Virgo

8° Virgo 00'

You refine. You notice what could be better and quietly make it so, and your standards are highest for yourself. The art of a Virgo Sun is knowing when good enough is the wiser choice.

Moon

Pisces

15° Pisces 44'

You feel what everyone in the room is feeling. Music, water, sleep and imagination restore you, and you need to be careful whose moods you carry home. Your empathy is a gift that needs a door.

Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.

Rising

James Coburn’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.
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Placements

Sun 8° Virgo 00'
Moon 15° Pisces 44'
Mercury 21° Virgo 50'
Venus 24° Virgo 45'
Mars 13° Gemini 43'
Jupiter 10° Taurus 25'
Saturn 12° Sagittarius 40'
Uranus 6° Aries 28'
Neptune 29° Leo 16'
Pluto 17° Cancer 55'
North Node 4° Gemini 37'
South Node 4° Sagittarius 37'

James Coburn's full reading

Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

  1. Sun in Virgo

    8° Virgo 00'

    purpose and vitality

    They find purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and their energy is steady as long as there is a task worth doing well. The tension is feeling like they have not earned rest until everything is fixed. It shows up in the way they keep tweaking something long after everyone else would call it finished.

  2. Moon in Pisces

    15° Pisces 44'

    needs and habits

    Their daily mood is porous, picking up the emotional temperature of a room without they choosing to. James is restored by quiet, music or time near water more than by talking things out. The tension is not noticing how much of what they feel actually belongs to someone else.

  3. Mercury in Virgo

    21° Virgo 50'

    mind and voice

    Their thinking is precise and detail oriented, and they communicate clearly because they have usually checked their facts first. The tension is fixating on a small error and losing sight of the larger point. It shows up as editing a message three times before sending something everyone else would have sent in one go.

  4. Venus in Virgo

    24° Virgo 45'

    love and values

    They love through small, practical acts of service, and they value competence and reliability in a partner. The tension is critiquing the people they love the most, mistaking notes for care. It shows up as fixing a partner's problem before they have simply listened to it.

  5. Mars in Gemini

    13° Gemini 43'

    drive and anger

    They act through words, argument and quick maneuvering rather than force, and their anger tends to come out sharp and verbal. The tension is winning a point without actually resolving the conflict underneath it. It shows up as debating their way through a disagreement long after the other person just wants it to end.

  6. Jupiter in Taurus

    10° Taurus 25'

    growth and excess

    They grow through patience, and their luck tends to show up in steady accumulation rather than a single windfall. The overreach is excess, holding onto more comfort or more stuff than actually serves they. It shows up as a generosity with food, gifts and shared pleasures that occasionally tips into indulgence.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius

    12° Sagittarius 40'

    discipline and doubt

    They build discipline around belief and meaning, often after an early experience that made a big worldview feel naive or unsafe to hold. The doubt shows up as hedging their convictions in front of people who might challenge them. It shows up as becoming, over time, a credible voice on the very questions they once felt unsure they had any right to answer.

  8. Uranus in Aries

    6° Aries 28'

    freedom, generational

    Shared by everyone born in this multi-year span, this placement marks a generation that pushes for change through direct, individual action rather than waiting for permission. Personally, it can show up as an impatience with slow-moving institutions that older generations built.

  9. Neptune in Leo

    29° Leo 16'

    imagination, generational

    Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. Personally, it can show up as a pull toward performance as a way of feeling real.

  10. Pluto in Cancer

    17° Cancer 55'

    power, generational

    Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. Personally, it can show up as intensity around questions of belonging and who counts as family.

Aspects

How the planets in James Coburn's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

  1. Mars opposition Saturn

    1.1° separating

    They feel a pull between wanting to act and a fear of being blocked or criticised for it, which can show up as frustration with anything that slows they down. Working steadily around an obstacle usually gets further than fighting it head on.

  2. Moon square Mars

    2.0° separating

    Their emotional needs and their impulse to act can clash, showing up as quick reactions they later have to walk back. The lesson is a brief pause between feeling and acting, which turns real energy into something more useful.

  3. Moon trine Pluto

    2.2° applying

    Their feelings and their capacity for transformation support each other, so they proces even difficult emotions in a way that leaves they stronger rather than depleted. This is quiet, genuine resilience, the sort that other people only notice once they see what they have come through.

  4. Sun trine Jupiter

    2.4° applying

    Their sense of self and their instinct for growth support each other effortlessly, giving they a warm, expansive confidence. Opportunities tend to find they, and they tend to make the most of them without forcing anything.

  • Mercury conjunction Venus2.9°
  • Moon square Saturn3.1°
  • Mercury sextile Pluto3.9°
  • Sun square Saturn4.7°
  • Moon sextile Jupiter5.3°
  • Sun square Mars5.7°
  • Moon opposition Mercury6.1°
  • Saturn trine Uranus6.2°
  • Sun opposition Moon7.7°
  • Sun conjunction Neptune8.7°

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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

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