Eli Saslow
Eli Saslow (born May 15, 1982, Littleton, United States), aged 44, is an American journalist. Saslow's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and George Polk Award.
Eli Saslow’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Water Dog, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Dog, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Eli
Eli Saslow’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Eli in the U.S.?
#104
US rank in 2025
~154,512
Americans share it since 1880
2012
its peak year
Eli ranked 357th among boys and 6,492nd among girls in 1982, the year of this birth, with 503 American boys and 10 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eli’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
3
Soul Urge · being heard
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eli’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 3 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Ivory · Blush · Soft pink
The record
What sets Eli apart
Pierre Curie (1859) and Haerin (2006) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Eli, according to the stars
Core essence
Eli 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 Eli 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Eli 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 Eli 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 Eli wants to be loved
Eli 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 Eli creates
How Eli makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Eli creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Eli 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Eli is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Eli fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Eli's birth date. Working below.
Where Eli sits
Six lines
Eli’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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
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
Dedicate a star to Eli Saslow
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Littleton 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 Littleton that night
Computed for 39.61°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Littleton was Tania Australis, in Ursa Major, 76.1° up.
Of the 99 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 39.6°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 Littleton at all: they sit past the −50.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 9° below the horizon, Moon down and 51% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Eli's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Sun · Five planets retrograde · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Eli Saslow at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Eli Saslow's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 15, 1982, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Water Dog
Water DogWorries so you don't have to.
Eli Saslow was born on May 15, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Eli Saslow's birth date, May 15, 1982, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Eli’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eli Saslow's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Venus, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Eli Saslow combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Eli’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Aquarius 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
stableMercurysextileVenus1.0° to 1.7° orb
Eli’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.7° orb
Eli’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurytrineSaturn2.1° to 2.6° orb
Eli’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
stableMarssextileUranus2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune4.0° orb
stableSuntrineMars5.5° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 11.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 1.0° to 13.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Eli’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 22°50′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 18°21′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLeo 29°04′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 3°16′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 25°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Jupiter 0.2°
- Hygiea trine Uranus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.2°
- Chiron conjunction Sun 1.7°
- Eros trine Neptune 2.6°
- Hygiea sextile Mars 2.8°
Eli’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
in its own sign, Gemini; 2 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Eli’s chart
Yod onto Sun · Neptune, Pluto, SunTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.2°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.6°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.9°
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Born in Dog years
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Also born on May 15
- Pierre Curie1859
- Haerin2006
- Huddy2002
- Role Model1997
- Zara Tindall1981
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler1981
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- Stephen ReaIrish actor
- Hattie McDanielAmerican actress
- David ClennonAmerican actor
Other Taurus Dog charts
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Other Steadfast Architects
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From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Eli’s cards
Computed from May 15, 1982. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmperorAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast ArchitectWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
4 · Architect♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eli’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16442024 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eli Saslow at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Eli Saslow.
Quick answers about Eli Saslow’s chart
- How old is Eli Saslow?
- Eli Saslow is 44 years old, born May 15, 1982 in Littleton, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Eli Saslow?
- Eli Saslow is a Taurus: born May 15, 1982, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What is Eli Saslow's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 15, 1982 birth.
- What is Eli Saslow's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Eli Saslow's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Eli Saslow's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Eli Saslow's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mars, Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
