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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, Chinese zodiac was Water Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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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.

What Denholm’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on D (4) and closes on M (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.

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

Denholm’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

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

The record

What sets Denholm apart

Clint Eastwood (1930) and Colin Farrell (1976) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

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. Working below.

Where Denholm sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Denholm

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Denholm

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

PrivateExpressive
Denholm

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Denholm

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Denholm

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Denholm

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Denholm Elliott

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

Denholm’s birth-night reference starAliothwhite · Ursa MajorAlioth, in Ursa Major. A white star, 84.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alioth →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 24.2° 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 Lexham Gardens that night

Computed for 51.50°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Lexham Gardens at 9 p.m. that evening: Alioth of Ursa Major, within 5.5° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.

Lexham Gardens sits at 51.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −38.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Lexham Gardens on any night.

Sun -0° below the horizon, Moon up and 29% lit at waxing crescent.

How unusual Denholm's chart is

Chart pattern score

38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

2 planets at a critical degree · No Earth planets · Mars retrograde

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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Gemini Sun

Never 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.

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Water Dog

Fair, direct, dependable.

Denholm Elliott was born on May 31, 1922, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dog means →

Life Path 5

Freedom over comfort, always.

Denholm Elliott's birth date, May 31, 1922, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

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What stands out in Denholm’s chart

Denholm’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 16° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0° orbSun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun flows with Jupiter · Trine, 0.2° orbJupiter grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.2° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.1° orbVenus fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 1.9° orbVenus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 2.1° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 4.3° orbSun in Gemini · 9°12′☉9°Moon in Leo · 9°00′☽9°Mercury in Gemini · 29°44′☿29°Venus in Cancer · 6°57′♀6°Mars in Sagittarius · 21°58′ · retrograde♂℞21°Jupiter in Libra · 9°01′ · retrograde♃℞9°Saturn in Libra · 0°49′ · retrograde♄℞0°Uranus in Pisces · 13°28′♅13°Neptune in Leo · 13°33′♆13°Pluto in Cancer · 8°48′♇8°

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

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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

  • 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

  • stableVenussquareJupiter1.5° to 2.7° orb

  • stableSunsquareUranus3.8° to 4.7° orb

  • stableSunsextileNeptune3.9° to 4.8° orb

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune4.5° orb

  • stableUranustrinePluto4.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.5° to 6.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.8° to 7.6° orb

  • 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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 16°25′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 26°22′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLeo 8°58′ (moves 0.91° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 8°37′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 16°17′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • 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°

Denholm’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts

    disposes Mars; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Denholm’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Uranus quincunx Neptune 0.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.4°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 1.0°
  • Mercury semi-square Neptune 1.2°

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Denholm’s cards

Computed from May 31, 1922. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Explorer

Western zodiac

Gemini

Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

Life Path

5 · Explorer

☿ Ruled by Mercury

Quicksilver Hg

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

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Denholm’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q313047 (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 PBS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Denholm Elliott 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 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.
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 was Denholm Elliott's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Denholm Elliott's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
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.

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