Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton (born September 24, 1985, London, Canada), aged 41, is a New Zealand writer. Catton is best known for The Luminaries. Catton's honours include Booker Prize, Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit and Amazon.ca First Novel Award.
Eleanor Catton’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Wood Ox, with Life Path 2 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Ox, with 
Life Path 2 in numerology.Your match with Eleanor
Eleanor Catton’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Eleanor in the U.S.?
#12
US rank in 2025
~337,323
Americans share it since 1880
1920
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1985, Eleanor came 670th, carried by 270 American girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eleanor’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
6
Soul Urge · being needed
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on E (5) and closes on R (9). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eleanor’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
2 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Blush · Botanical green
The record
What sets Eleanor apart
Birgit Sarrap (1988) and Hannah Brown (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Eleanor, according to the stars
Core essence
Eleanor makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Eleanor is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Eleanor needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Eleanor needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Eleanor wants to be loved
Eleanor wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Eleanor and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Eleanor creates
How Eleanor makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Eleanor creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Eleanor is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Eleanor is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Eleanor channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Eleanor's birth date. Working below.
Where Eleanor sits
Six lines
Eleanor’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above London 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 London that night
Computed for 42.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at London at 9 p.m. that evening: Fawaris of Cygnus, within 2.3° of the exact zenith.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
From 43.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from London on any night.
The Moon, 85% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 19° below the horizon.
How unusual Eleanor's chart is
Chart pattern score
38 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · 1 planet at a critical degree
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunEvery side of every argument.
Eleanor Catton's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 24, 1985, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Wood Ox
Wood OxReliable to the bone.
Eleanor Catton was born on September 24, 1985, which falls in a Wood Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 2
Life Path 2Diplomat by instinct.
Eleanor Catton's birth date, September 24, 1985, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 2 means →What stands out in Eleanor’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eleanor Catton's date-only chart is Venus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Eleanor Catton combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Eleanor’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 17° Aquarius 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
stableVenussextilePluto0.0° to 0.9° orb
Eleanor’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.2° to 1.1° orb
Eleanor’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.1° to 1.9° orb
Eleanor’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.3° to 3.1° orb
stableVenustrineNeptune1.6° to 2.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
stableMercurytrineJupiter3.3° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMarssquareUranus4.9° to 5.5° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.9° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Eleanor’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 14°39′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresLeo 15°51′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 17°26′ (moves 0.90° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 29°22′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 12°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Ceres trine Uranus 1.4°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 1.5°
Eleanor’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto6 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Eleanor’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.
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury quintile Uranus 0.6°
- Sun quintile Uranus 0.9°
- Jupiter quintile Saturn 1.0°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 2.0°
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Eleanor’s cards
Computed from September 24, 1985. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
2 · Diplomat♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eleanor’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3050522 (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 NZatFrankfurt, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eleanor Catton 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 Eleanor Catton.
Quick answers about Eleanor Catton’s chart
- How old is Eleanor Catton?
- Eleanor Catton is 41 years old, born September 24, 1985 in London, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Eleanor Catton?
- Eleanor Catton is a Libra: born September 24, 1985, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Eleanor Catton's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 24, 1985 birth.
- What is Eleanor Catton's Life Path number?
- Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
- What is Eleanor Catton's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Eleanor Catton's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Eleanor Catton's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
