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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Rooster, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Elia
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.
How common is the name Elia in the U.S.?
#970
US rank in 2025
~10,159
Americans share it since 1884
2024
its peak year
The SSA recorded 10 American girls named Elia in 1909: 1,395th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elia’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
8
Soul Urge · achievement
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on E (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elia’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1909, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Elia apart
The Academy Award for Best Director came in 1948, when Elia Kazan was 39.
The schooling ran through New Rochelle High School and Yale School of Drama.
Elia Kazan was 25 when the work began in 1934.
Elia Kazan lies at Greenwood Union Cemetery.
Elia Kazan was married Barbara Loden and Frances Kazan and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Elia Kazan under Cappadocian Greeks, Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the United States and Broadway theatre producers.
Evan Rachel Wood (1987) and Ariarne Titmus (2000) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- New Rochelle High School, Yale School of Drama and Juilliard School
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Director (1948), Academy Honorary Award (1999) and Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture, Drama (1955)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Tony Award for Best Director
- Working from
- 1934
- Buried at
- Greenwood Union Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States and Greece
- Languages
- Turkish, English and Modern Greek
- Wikipedia editions
- 81
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. Working below.
Where Elia sits
Six lines
Elia’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 Elia Kazan
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Constantinople 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 Constantinople that night
Computed for 41.01°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Constantinople was Sadr, in Cygnus, 86.9° up.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Constantinople sits at 41.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Constantinople at all: they sit past the −49.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 40% lit at last quarter, had already set; the Sun sat 27° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Constantinople, Turkey
The death is recorded at New York City, New York in 2003.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Elia Kazan: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Elia's chart is
Chart pattern score
55 / 100 · Unusual
Grand cross · Mars retrograde
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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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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 28° Gemini 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
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
stableMercuryoppositionMars2.9° to 4.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn3.2° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.5° to 3.6° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune3.7° to 3.9° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto4.1° to 4.4° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto4.5° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus5.2° to 5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 24°44′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 13°40′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 9°13′ (moves 0.88° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 15°44′ (moves 0.35° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 8°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Elia’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Elia’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter quincunx Saturn 0.3°
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Born in Rooster years
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Also born on September 7
- Evan Rachel Wood1987
- Ariarne Titmus2000
- Miniminter1992
- Gracie Abrams1999
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- Shannon Elizabeth1973
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Meghann FahyAmerican actress
- Nacho FiguerasArgentine polo player (born 1977)
- Brooke HoganAmerican singer and television personality
Other Virgo Rooster charts
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- Johnathon SchaechAmerican actor (born 1969)
- Candy SpellingAmerican socialite, writer, and television personality
- Matthew SettleAmerican actor
Other Gilded Storytellers
- Justino DíazPuerto Rican opera singer
- Matt TurnerAmerican soccer player
- Tahith ChongCuraçaoan association football player (born 1999)
- Mikel MerinoSpanish footballer (born 1996)
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Elia’s cards
Computed from September 7, 1909. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elia’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q72717 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elia Kazan at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What was Elia Kazan's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 24°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
