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Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek (born October 20, 1946, Mürzzuschlag, Austria), aged 79, is an Austrian playwright and novelist. Jelinek is best known for Wonderful, Wonderful Times, Women as Lovers and The Piano Teacher. Jelinek's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Franz Kafka Prize and Österreichischer Kunstpreis für Literatur.

Elfriede Jelinek’s zodiac sign is Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Elfriede Jelinek’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Pioneer

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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Elfriede’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

5 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Opal, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

Amber · Blush · Flame orange

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What the chart says

Elfriede, according to the stars

Core essence

Elfriede makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Elfriede 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.

How Elfriede wants to be loved

Elfriede wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Elfriede and watch them fall for you again.

How Elfriede creates

How Elfriede 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. Elfriede 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: Elfriede 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Elfriede 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Elfriede runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Elfriede's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Elfriede sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Elfriede

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Elfriede

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

PrivateExpressive
Elfriede

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Elfriede

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

PracticalVisionary
Elfriede

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Elfriede

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

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Dedicate a star to Elfriede Jelinek

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

Elfriede’s birth-night reference starCaphyellow-white · CassiopeiaCaph, in Cassiopeia. A yellow-white star, 74.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Caph →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 30° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Elfriede Jelinek in 15 seconds

Libra Sun

Beauty matters. So does balance.

Elfriede Jelinek's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 20, 1946, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.

Fire Dog

Guards the gate all night.

Elfriede Jelinek was born on October 20, 1946, which falls in a Fire Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Elfriede Jelinek's birth date, October 20, 1946, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Elfriede’s chart

Elfriede’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Elfriede Jelinek, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.2° orbSaturn opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1° orbMoon grinds against Venus · Square, 1.6° orbMoon opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.3° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.7° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.2° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.5° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 4.7° orbSun in Libra · 26°27′☉26°Moon in Virgo · 3°00′☽3°Mercury in Scorpio · 17°55′☿17°Venus in Sagittarius · 1°22′♀1°Mars in Scorpio · 17°43′♂17°Jupiter in Scorpio · 5°18′♃5°Saturn in Leo · 8°00′♄7°Uranus in Gemini · 21°35′ · retrograde♅℞21°Neptune in Libra · 9°02′♆9°Pluto in Leo · 13°13′♇13°

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.

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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

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.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionMars0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Elfriede’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.0° orb

    Elfriede’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn2.6° to 2.8° orb

    Elfriede’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto4.0° to 5.3° orb

    Elfriede’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableMarssquarePluto4.2° to 4.8° orb

    Elfriede’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.2° orb

    Elfriede’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSuntrineUranus4.4° to 5.4° orb

    Elfriede’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.2° orb

    Elfriede’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableVenustrineSaturn6.5° to 6.7° orb

    Elfriede’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.4° to 12.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Elfriede’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.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 27°02′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Libra is read as a wound around fairness and partnership. Elfriede is read as someone who learnt what a fair deal looks like by living through unfair ones.

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 1°45′ (moves 0.16° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Elfriede is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ♡ ErosLeo 23°45′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

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

    Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Elfriede loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 24°41′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

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

    Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Elfriede feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 18°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius is read as a refusal to be told what to believe. The reading has Elfriede leaving any room where the truth is decided in advance.

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.

  • Ceres sextile Venus 0.4°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 0.6°
  • Hygiea opposition Sun 1.8°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 2.2°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 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°).

Elfriede’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. 1. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    4 major aspects

A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Elfriede is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.

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 Elfriede’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Sun quintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.3°
  • Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.4°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Elfriede Jelinek, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Elfriede’s cards

Every card is computed from October 20, 1946, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

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AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Pioneer

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Western zodiac

Libra

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Chinese zodiac

Dog 戌

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丙

yang Fire

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Elfriede Jelinek, 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

Elfriede’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q47243, 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 The original uploader was Ghuengsberg at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Elfriede Jelinek at Wikipedia, elfriedejelinek.com, 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 Elfriede Jelinek.

Quick answers about Elfriede Jelinek’s chart

How old is Elfriede Jelinek?
Elfriede Jelinek is 79 years old, born October 20, 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria.
What zodiac sign is Elfriede Jelinek?
Elfriede Jelinek is a Libra: born October 20, 1946, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Dog.
What is Elfriede Jelinek's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 20, 1946 birth.
What time was Elfriede Jelinek 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 is Elfriede Jelinek's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the October 20, 1946 birth date.
What is Elfriede Jelinek's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 20, 1946 birth date.
Where is Elfriede Jelinek's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 18°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Elfriede Jelinek's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: disposes Mercury, Mars, Jupiter; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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