James Taylor’s birth chart
Born 12 March 1948, in Boston, Massachusetts. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Pisces Sun · Aries Moon
James Taylor’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
James Taylor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 12 March 1948, a Friday. Their zodiac sign is Pisces, with the Moon in Aries. James turns 78 in 2026. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
By element the count is five fire, three air, one earth and one water. By modality the count is five fixed, three mutable and two cardinal. Mars, Saturn and Pluto all fall in Leo. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Sun and Uranus: a square, about 0.1° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Four planets were retrograde: Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 12 March, among them Mitt Romney, Jack Kerouac and Liza Minnelli. Wikidata links James with one person in the dataset: Carly Simon (listed as spouses in Wikidata, marriage ended in 1983).
See the sky the day James was born: the stars over Boston, Massachusetts, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
James Taylor’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
about 22° Pisces at midday
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make James Taylor the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Aries
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
With the Moon in Aries, James is likely to feel fast and forgive fast. Anger comes up quickly and passes just as quickly, and feeling needs a physical outlet. This is a Moon soothed by action, not by talking it over.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Boston, Massachusetts, at each hour of the day.
James Taylor’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for James yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 12 March 1948, computed for Boston, Massachusetts.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 02:00 | Sagittarius rising |
| 02:00 to 03:50 | Capricorn rising |
| 03:50 to 05:15 | Aquarius rising |
| 05:15 to 06:25 | Pisces rising |
| 06:25 to 07:35 | Aries rising |
| 07:35 to 08:55 | Taurus rising |
| 08:55 to 10:50 | Gemini rising |
| 10:50 to 13:15 | Cancer rising |
| 13:15 to 15:50 | Leo rising |
| 15:50 to 18:25 | Virgo rising |
| 18:25 to 20:55 | Libra rising |
| 20:55 to 23:30 | Scorpio rising |
| 23:30 to 24:00 | Sagittarius rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 12 March 1948, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 22° Pisces 02' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Aries |
| Mercury | 25° Aquarius 00' |
| Venus | 5° Taurus 02' |
| Mars | 19° Leo 54'℞ |
| Jupiter | 27° Sagittarius 13' |
| Saturn | 16° Leo 50'℞ |
| Uranus | 22° Gemini 10' |
| Neptune | 12° Libra 09'℞ |
| Pluto | 12° Leo 57'℞ |
| North Node | 15° Taurus 11' |
| South Node | 15° Scorpio 11' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
James Taylor’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about James Taylor’s private life.
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and James Taylor's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.
The Moon in Aries keeps day-to-day needs simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. For James, comfort probably comes from action rather than discussion. The instinct of this Moon is to pace the room or go for a walk rather than sit with a feeling until it passes on its own.
In James's chart, Mercury in Aquarius describes thinking that is original and a step removed from convention, and communication that works best through ideas rather than small talk. The stubborn streak is holding a position out of principle after the evidence has moved on. In a group, this is the person who asks the question nobody else thought to ask.
Venus in Taurus loves steadily and shows it through consistency, touch and shared comfort rather than grand gestures, and in James's chart it is likely to value loyalty and things built to last. Because change feels like loss, this Venus can hold on to a relationship past its natural end. Months in, people with this placement tend to remember exactly how someone takes their coffee.
Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for James its anger is likely to flare when pride or loyalty is challenged. The tension is turning a disagreement into a matter of ego. Criticism of the work can feel personal to a Leo Mars, even when it was not meant that way.
Jupiter in Sagittarius
27° Sagittarius 13' at midday
growth and excess
With Jupiter in Sagittarius, James is likely to grow through travel, study and direct experience of things bigger than ordinary life. The excess may be promising more than circumstances can deliver, out of optimism rather than dishonesty. This Jupiter carries a conviction that things will work out, and other people borrow it when theirs runs low.
Saturn in Leo builds discipline around self-expression, and in James's chart this placement often starts with a fear of being laughed at or overlooked. The doubt tends to show as playing down achievements before anyone else can. The confidence this placement builds is hard-won and unshowy, and it tends to arrive once the waiting for permission stops.
Uranus in Gemini
22° Gemini 10' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus in Gemini is shared by James and many people born in the same few years. These are people who come of age alongside a revolution in communication, fluent in tools older generations learned later in life. The personal version is a restless need for new information.
Neptune in Libra
12° Libra 09' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, James among them. It idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by images of love on screen that outpace real relationships. The personal echo is a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.
Pluto in Leo
12° Leo 57' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for James, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Aspects in James Taylor’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Sun square Uranus
about 0.1° at midday
When the Sun is square Uranus, James Taylor's identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people nearby. The skill is choosing those disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them.
Mercury sextile Jupiter
about 2.2° at midday
James's thinking and optimism keep easy company, which gives their conversation a natural, engaging breadth. Curiosity does much of the work with this aspect, opening doors in conversation that a narrower focus would have missed.
Mars sextile Uranus
about 2.3° at midday
Bold, original action comes to James without much friction, because drive and independence are on good terms in this sextile. It is useful initiative with little drama attached, the sort that tries something new without making a big production of it.
Mercury trine Uranus
about 2.8° at midday
Insight is likely to come to James fast and without much effort, the product of thinking and originality that flow together easily. With Mercury trine Uranus, new ideas tend to arrive when they are needed, often faster than they can be written down.
Mars conjunction Saturn
about 3.1° at midday
With Mars conjunct Saturn, drive is disciplined and controlled, and James is likely to channel energy into long, patient effort in place of short bursts. It makes them capable of sustained work. The risk is that caution talks them out of acting when the moment calls for it.
Saturn conjunction Pluto
about 3.9° at midday
Saturn conjunct Pluto describes discipline forged through intensity, often after a period that asked for more endurance than seemed fair at the time. For James the aspect suggests serious, hard-won resilience, and the remaining step is trusting that what needed proving has been proved.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Neptune sextile Plutoabout 0.8°
- Saturn sextile Neptuneabout 4.7°
- Jupiter opposition Uranusabout 5.0°
- Mercury opposition Marsabout 5.1°
- Sun square Jupiterabout 5.2°
- Mars conjunction Plutoabout 7.0°
James Taylor in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Pisces Sun and Aries Moon, like James Taylor
Also born on 12 March
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
StarMap is for entertainment and self-reflection. It does not predict health, money or legal outcomes.