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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Dog, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Eli’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Eli sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
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. 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 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. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
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
No documented birth time exists for Eli Saslow, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 13° to 25° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
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.
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
Eli’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.2° to 4.4° orb
Eli’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquareNeptune4.0° orb
Eli’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineMars5.5° to 6.4° orb
Eli’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 22°50′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Eli building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Scorpio 18°21′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Eli is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLeo 29°04′ (moves 0.81° 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 Eli loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaLeo 3°16′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Eli at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 25°57′ (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 Eli 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.
- 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°
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°).
Eli’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Eli is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Eli’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.
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 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.
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.1°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 0.2°
- Saturn semi-square Uranus 1.6°
- Sun quincunx Neptune 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eli Saslow, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Eli’s cards
Every card is computed from May 15, 1982, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Eli Saslow, 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
Eli’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16442024, 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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eli Saslow at Wikipedia and X.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog.
- 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 time was Eli Saslow 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 Eli Saslow's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the May 15, 1982 birth date.
- What is Eli Saslow's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 15, 1982 birth date.
- 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.
