El Jones
El Jones (born August 1, 1979, Cardiff, United Kingdom), aged 47, is a Canadian journalist, professor, activist. Jones has served as Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
El Jones’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with El Jones
El Jones’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name El Jones in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~284
Americans share it since 1915
2000
its peak year
US records hold El from 1915 onward, though not for 1979 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2000 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What El Jones’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
7
Soul Urge · understanding
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on E (5) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
El Jones’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1979, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets El Jones apart
Queen's University and University of Manitoba shaped the training.
Wikipedia's editors put El Jones under Activists from Nova Scotia, Black Canadian women poets and Canadian women activists.
The same date carries Jason Momoa. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Queen's University and University of Manitoba
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 2
What the chart says
El Jones, according to the stars
Core essence
El Jones is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of El Jones is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, El Jones feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What El Jones needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How El Jones wants to be loved
El Jones wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore El Jones openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How El Jones creates
How El Jones makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. El Jones creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: El Jones is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. El Jones is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. El Jones scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from El Jones's birth date. Working below.
Where El Jones sits
Six lines
El Jones’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 weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to El Jones
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cardiff 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 Cardiff that night
Computed for 51.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Cardiff at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.2° above the horizon in Draco.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 51.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.5° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at first quarter, 56% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 0° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Lives in
- Winnipeg · Halifax
Wikidata records Winnipeg and Halifax as El Jones's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for El Jones: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual El's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
4-planet stellium in Leo · A bowl chart
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.
Score your own chart →El Jones in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
El Jones's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 1, 1979, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Earth Goat
Earth GoatArtist first, everything second.
El Jones was born on August 1, 1979, which falls in a Earth Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
El Jones's birth date, August 1, 1979, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in El Jones’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in El Jones' date-only chart is Jupiter square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Leo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- El Jones combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
El Jones’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.4° to 2.1° orb
El Jones’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareUranus0.4° to 0.6° orb
El Jones’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineNeptune0.4° to 0.6° orb
El Jones’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.6° to 0.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.4° to 6.4° orb
stableSaturnsextileUranus4.5° to 4.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.5° to 5.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionNeptune7.0° to 7.7° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
El Jones’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 13°47′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 19°00′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Pisces or Aquarius during this date
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 1°41′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 2°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.3°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.1°
- Chiron trine Saturn 1.4°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.6°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 2.2°
El Jones’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
Configurations in El Jones’s chart
Stellium in Leo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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.
- Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.9°
- Uranus semi-sextile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun semi-square Mars 1.6°
Born the same day as El Jones
Jason Momoa was born on August 1, 1979 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 51.5°N, Cardiff keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Goat years
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- Georges Charpak1924
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Other Gilded Scholars
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From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
El Jones’s cards
Computed from August 1, 1979. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
El Jones’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q28935078 (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 Bwark (Bruce Wark), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same El Jones at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by El Jones.
Quick answers about El Jones’s chart
- How old is El Jones?
- El Jones is 47 years old, born August 1, 1979 in Cardiff, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is El Jones?
- El Jones is a Leo: born August 1, 1979, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is El Jones's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 1, 1979 birth.
- What is El Jones's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is El Jones's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is El Jones's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is El Jones's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury, Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
