Denholm Elliott
Denholm Elliott (born May 31, 1922, Lexham Gardens, United Kingdom; died 1992), was a British actor. Elliott's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Donaldson Awards.
Denholm Elliott’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dog, with 
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Denholm Elliott’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Explorer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
Denholm’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Lilac · Soft pink
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What the chart says
Denholm, according to the stars
Core essence
Denholm is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Denholm needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Denholm needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Denholm needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Denholm wants to be loved
Denholm wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Denholm gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.
How Denholm creates
How Denholm 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. Denholm 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: Denholm is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Denholm 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Denholm has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Denholm's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Denholm 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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Denholm Elliott's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 31, 1922, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Water Dog
Water DogFair, direct, dependable.
Denholm Elliott was born on May 31, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Denholm Elliott's birth date, May 31, 1922, 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 Denholm’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Denholm Elliott's date-only chart is Sun trine Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- No planet falls in Earth signs in this chart.
- Denholm Elliott combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Explorer.
Denholm’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Denholm Elliott, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Leo 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.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Denholm’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableJupitersquarePluto0.2° orb
Denholm’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableMercurysquareSaturn0.9° to 1.3° orb
Denholm’s mind grinds against their discipline.
stableVenusconjunctionPluto1.3° to 2.5° orb
Denholm’s affections and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareJupiter1.5° to 2.7° orb
Denholm’s affections grind against their growth.
stableSunsquareUranus3.8° to 4.7° orb
Denholm’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
stableSunsextileNeptune3.9° to 4.8° orb
Denholm’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersextileNeptune4.5° orb
Denholm’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranustrinePluto4.7° orb
Denholm’s need for freedom flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussquareSaturn5.5° to 6.7° orb
Denholm’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.8° to 7.6° orb
Denholm’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 7.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Denholm’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.
⚷ ChironAries 16°25′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Denholm may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 26°22′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Denholm is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosLeo 8°58′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Denholm loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 8°37′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Denholm is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 16°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Denholm is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
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.
- Eros sextile Jupiter 0.1°
- Eros sextile Sun 0.2°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.4°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 2.8°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.9°
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°).
Denholm’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Denholm is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Denholm’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Denholm Elliott, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Denholm’s cards
Every card is computed from May 31, 1922, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Denholm Elliott, 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
Denholm’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313047, 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 PBS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Denholm Elliott 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 Denholm Elliott.
Quick answers about Denholm Elliott’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Denholm Elliott?
- Denholm Elliott was a Gemini: born May 31, 1922, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dog.
- What was Denholm Elliott's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 31, 1922 birth.
- What time was Denholm Elliott 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 was Denholm Elliott's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the May 31, 1922 birth date.
- What was Denholm Elliott's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 31, 1922 birth date.
- Where was Denholm Elliott's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Denholm Elliott's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
