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Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott (born December 14, 1972, Washington, D.C., United States), aged 53, is an American journalist. Elliott's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and George Polk Award.

Andrea Elliott’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Andrea Elliott’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Seeker

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Andrea in the U.S.?

#235

US rank in 2025

~451,448

Americans share it since 1881

1981

its peak year

In 1972, 8,022 American girls and 140 boys were registered Andrea — 30th among girls and 678th among boys on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Andrea’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on A (1) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

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

Andrea’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily

Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white

The record

What sets Andrea apart

Dilma Rousseff (1947) and Nicolas Batum (1988) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Andrea, according to the stars

Core essence

Andrea is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Andrea 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 Andrea wants to be loved

Andrea wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Andrea even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.

How Andrea creates

How Andrea makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Andrea creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Andrea 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Andrea is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Andrea runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Andrea's birth date. Working below.

Where Andrea sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Andrea

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Andrea

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

PrivateExpressive
Andrea

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Andrea

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

PracticalVisionary
Andrea

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Andrea

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

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Andrea’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 84.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 13° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

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

The sky over Washington that night

Computed for 38.90°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Almach stood nearest the zenith over Washington at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.2° above the horizon in Andromeda.

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

Washington sits at 38.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Washington at all: they sit past the −51.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 64% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.

How unusual Andrea's chart is

Chart pattern score

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl

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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Andrea Elliott in 15 seconds

Sagittarius Sun

Needs a horizon, any horizon.

Andrea Elliott's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 14, 1972, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Water Rat

Finds the shortcut every time.

Andrea Elliott was born on December 14, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 9

Wide view, open hands.

Andrea Elliott's birth date, December 14, 1972, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Andrea’s chart

Andrea’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 11° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.3° orbSun opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.6° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.6° orbMoon flows with Mercury · Trine, 2.9° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.9° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 5.6° orbSun in Sagittarius · 22°49′☉22°Moon in Aries · 4°35′☽4°Mercury in Sagittarius · 1°42′☿1°Venus in Scorpio · 24°57′♀24°Mars in Scorpio · 19°12′♂19°Jupiter in Capricorn · 13°51′♃13°Saturn in Gemini · 16°38′ · retrograde♄℞16°Uranus in Libra · 22°12′♅22°Neptune in Sagittarius · 5°38′♆5°Pluto in Libra · 4°17′♇4°

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

  • stableMoonoppositionPluto0.0° to 7.3° orb

    Andrea’s feelings pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableSunsextileUranus0.1° to 1.1° orb

    Andrea’s core identity opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb

    Andrea’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysextilePluto2.1° to 3.1° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.4° to 4.4° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars5.5° to 6.0° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.5° to 5.6° orb

  • stableSunoppositionSaturn5.6° to 6.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.7° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 2.4° to 16.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.

Andrea’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 12°54′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 16°36′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosPisces 11°35′ (moves 0.55° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 28°07′ (moves 0.43° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 2°49′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Jupiter 1.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.5°
  • Eros sextile Jupiter 2.3°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 2.6°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 2.8°

Andrea’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts

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

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto5 pts

    disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Andrea’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.

  • Mars semi-square Pluto 0.1°
  • Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.6°

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Andrea’s cards

Computed from December 14, 1972. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Andrea’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4755067 (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 Frypie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Andrea Elliott at Wikipedia, andrea-elliott.com, IMDb and X.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Andrea Elliott.

Quick answers about Andrea Elliott’s chart

How old is Andrea Elliott?
Andrea Elliott is 53 years old, born December 14, 1972 in Washington, D.C., United States.
What zodiac sign is Andrea Elliott?
Andrea Elliott is a Sagittarius: born December 14, 1972, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Andrea Elliott's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 14, 1972 birth.
What is Andrea Elliott's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Andrea Elliott's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Andrea Elliott's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Andrea Elliott's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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