Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (born September 7, 1909, Constantinople, Turkey; died 2003), was an American director and actor. Kazan's honours include Academy Award for Best Director, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Kennedy Center Honors.
Elia Kazan’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Rooster, with 
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Elia Kazan’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
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) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
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#970
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~10,159
Americans share it since 1880
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its peak year
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Elia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 5 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
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What the chart says
Elia, according to the stars
Core essence
Elia notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Elia is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Elia processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Elia needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Elia wants to be loved
Elia wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Elia gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Elia creates
How Elia makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Elia 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: Elia is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Elia 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means Elia gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Elia's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunFixes everything except the need to.
Elia Kazan's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 7, 1909, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Rooster
Earth RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Elia Kazan was born on September 7, 1909, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Wants it all. Gets most.
Elia Kazan's birth date, September 7, 1909, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Elia’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elia Kazan's date-only chart is Venus square Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Elia Kazan combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Elia’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Elia Kazan, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Gemini 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.
stableVenussquareNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Elia’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableVenussquareUranus0.6° to 1.9° orb
Elia’s affections grind against their need for freedom.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.5° orb
Elia’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSuntrineUranus2.7° to 3.6° orb
Elia’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableMercuryoppositionMars2.9° to 4.4° orb
Elia’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.2° to 4.4° orb
Elia’s affections pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
Elia’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.7° to 3.9° orb
Elia’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableJupitersquarePluto4.1° to 4.4° orb
Elia’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.5° orb
Elia’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb
Elia’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineUranus5.2° to 5.4° orb
Elia’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed0 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Elia’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 24°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Elia making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 13°40′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Elia caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosCancer 9°13′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Elia is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 15°44′ (moves 0.35° 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 Elia at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Elia that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Eros square Mercury 0.4°
- Ceres trine Sun 0.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 0.5°
- Chiron trine Pluto 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Saturn 2.4°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 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°).
Elia’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. ☿ Mercury7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Elia is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Elia’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.
Grand cross · Uranus, Neptune, Venus, SaturnTwo oppositions crossed by four squares. Read as pressure from every direction and the stamina that grows from it.
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 quincunx Saturn 0.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Elia Kazan, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Elia’s cards
Every card is computed from September 7, 1909, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Elia Kazan, 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
Elia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q72717, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elia Kazan at Wikipedia, 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 Elia Kazan.
Quick answers about Elia Kazan’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Elia Kazan?
- Elia Kazan was a Virgo: born September 7, 1909, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Rooster.
- What was Elia Kazan's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 7, 1909 birth.
- What time was Elia Kazan 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.
- How tall was Elia Kazan?
- Elia Kazan was 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Elia Kazan's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the September 7, 1909 birth date.
- What was Elia Kazan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 7, 1909 birth date.
- Where was Elia Kazan's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Elia Kazan's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
