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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Duke
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.
How common is the name Duke in the U.S.?
#695
US rank in 2025
~11,595
Americans share it since 1880
2018
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1899, Duke came 802nd, carried by 8 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Duke’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
1
Soul Urge · independence
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on D (4) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Duke’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Duke apart
Anggun (1974) and Uma Thurman (1970) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Duke sits
Six lines
Duke’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ 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.
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.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Washington was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 77.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 99 catalog stars were up in all.
From 38.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
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 waning gibbous, 79% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 21° down.
How unusual Duke's chart is
Chart pattern score
44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · T-square onto Mars
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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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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Pig means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 6° Sagittarius or Capricorn depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableVenustrineMars2.3° to 3.1° orb
stableSunsquareMars2.9° to 3.5° orb
stableVenustrineUranus3.3° to 4.5° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter3.7° to 4.8° orb
stableMercurytrineSaturn6.6° to 6.9° orb
stableUranusoppositionPluto7.2° to 7.3° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 12°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 3°03′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosGemini 19°57′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 11°07′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 6°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Duke’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Duke’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Duke’s cards
Computed from April 29, 1899. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The DevilAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Duke’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4030 (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.
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The same Duke Ellington at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 was Duke Ellington's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What was Duke Ellington's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 12°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
