Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington (born April 29, 1899, Washington, D.C., United States; died 1974), was an American jazz pianist and composer. Ellington is best remembered for It Don't Mean a Thing, Black, Brown and Beige and Solitude. Ellington's honours include Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Presidential Medal of Freedom and Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Duke Ellington’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Duke Ellington’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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Duke’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Duke, according to the stars
Core essence
Duke is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Duke is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
How Duke wants to be loved
Duke wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Duke creates
How Duke makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Duke creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Duke is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Duke is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Duke fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Duke's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Duke Ellington in 15 seconds
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunBuilt for the long haul.
Duke Ellington's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 29, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
Duke Ellington was born on April 29, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Responsible before asked.
Duke Ellington's birth date, April 29, 1899, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Duke’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Duke Ellington's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Six of the ten planets are in Fire signs.
- Duke Ellington combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Duke’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Duke Ellington, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.2° to 0.3° orb
Duke’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquareJupiter0.8° to 1.4° orb
Duke’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarstrineUranus0.9° to 1.4° orb
Duke’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.8° to 2.1° orb
Duke’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineMars2.3° to 3.1° orb
Duke’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSunsquareMars2.9° to 3.5° orb
Duke’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableVenustrineUranus3.3° to 4.5° orb
Duke’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.7° to 4.8° orb
Duke’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableMercurytrineSaturn6.6° to 6.9° orb
Duke’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableUranusoppositionPluto7.2° to 7.3° orb
Duke’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.0° to 12.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Duke’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 12°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Duke building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 3°03′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Duke is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosGemini 19°57′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Gemini is read as desire that starts in conversation. Duke is read as someone for whom a quick mind is the first attraction.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 11°07′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Duke is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 6°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Duke is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 1.0°
- Ceres conjunction Jupiter 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Sun 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.2°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 2.4°
- Ceres square Mars 2.9°
- Eros conjunction 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°).
Duke’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. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Duke is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Duke’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.
Grand trine · Venus, Mars, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Mars · Sun, Jupiter, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Venus quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.3°
- Venus quincunx Jupiter 1.6°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 1.9°
- Sun quincunx Uranus 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Duke Ellington, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Duke’s cards
Every card is computed from April 29, 1899, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Duke Ellington, 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
Duke’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4030, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Duke Ellington at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
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 Duke Ellington.
Quick answers about Duke Ellington’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Duke Ellington?
- Duke Ellington was a Taurus: born April 29, 1899, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
- What was Duke Ellington's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 29, 1899 birth.
- What time was Duke Ellington 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 Duke Ellington's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 29, 1899 birth date.
- What was Duke Ellington's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 29, 1899 birth date.
- Where was Duke Ellington's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Duke Ellington's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
