Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel (born September 30, 1928, Sighetu Marmației, Romania; died 2016), was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. Wiesel is best remembered for Night. Wiesel's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Peace Prize and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.
Elie Wiesel’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Earth Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Dragon, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Elie
Elie Wiesel’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Pioneer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Elie in the U.S.?
#3535
US rank in 2025
~3,405
Americans share it since 1880
2009
its peak year
The SSA recorded 31 American boys named Elie in 1928: 1,301st for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elie’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
2
Soul Urge · closeness
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on E (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Blush · Terracotta
The record
What sets Elie apart
Monica Bellucci (1964) and Max Verstappen (1997) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Elie, according to the stars
Core essence
Elie makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Elie 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.
The vibe
Underneath, Elie runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Elie needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Elie wants to be loved
Elie wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Elie even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Elie creates
How Elie makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Elie creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Elie is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Elie 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: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Elie scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Elie's birth date. Working below.
Where Elie sits
Six lines
Elie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Elie Wiesel
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Sighetu Marmației 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 Sighetu Marmației that night
Computed for 47.93°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Sighetu Marmației was Deneb, in Cygnus, 81.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 94 catalog stars were up in all.
Sighetu Marmației sits at 47.9°N, high enough that Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Sighetu Marmației at all: they sit past the −42.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 30° below the horizon, Moon up and 98% lit at full moon.
How unusual Elie's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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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Libra Sun
Libra SunMakes the peace, keeps the peace.
Elie Wiesel's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 30, 1928, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Dragon
Earth DragonConfident before the proof.
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, which falls in a Earth Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Elie Wiesel's birth date, September 30, 1928, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Elie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elie Wiesel's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Elie Wiesel combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Pioneer.
Elie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 11° to 26° Aries 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
stableVenussextileNeptune0.5° to 1.7° orb
Elie’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunoppositionUranus1.1° to 2.2° orb
Elie’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.2° to 1.5° orb
Elie’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileNeptune1.2° to 1.6° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.0° to 2.9° orb
stableVenustrineMars2.1° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurytrineMars3.6° to 4.1° orb
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter5.6° to 6.7° orb
stableMarssquareUranus6.3° to 6.7° orb
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 2.6° to 16.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Elie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 9°11′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 5°32′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 26°19′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 18°06′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°04′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea opposition Pluto 0.2°
- Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 1.3°
- Eros trine Mars 2.5°
- Ceres trine Mercury 2.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 2.9°
Elie’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Elie’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.9°
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Born in Romania
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- Herta MüllerGerman-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist
- Sebastian StanRomanian and American actor
- Nadia ComăneciRomanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist
- George Emil PaladeRomanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate
- Alexandra Maria LaraGerman actress
More charts like Elie’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Otto WernickeGerman actor
- Lorraine BraccoAmerican actress
- Buster KeatonAmerican motion picture director, motion picture producer, motion picture producers and director, comedian, actor
Born in Dragon years
- Mohamed RamadanEgyptian actor and singer
- Kandi BurrussAmerican singer, actress and businesswoman
- Sandeep LamichhaneNepalese cricketer
Also born on September 30
- Monica Bellucci1964
- Max Verstappen1997
- Barry Marshall1951
- Ezra Miller1992
- Fran Drescher1957
- T-Pain1984
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Javonte WilliamsAmerican football running back
- DeMarvion OvershownAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Jonathan MingoAmerican football player (born 2001)
Other Libra Dragon charts
- Owen PappoeAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Brennan JacksonAmerican football player
- Wanya MorrisAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Baylor ScheiermanAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Other Tidal Pioneers
- Catherine Zeta-JonesBritish actress
- Hideki YukawaJapanese theoretical physicist
- Dr. DreAmerican rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor
- Joaquin PhoenixAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Durham SmytheAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Tyler HuntleyAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Rashod BatemanAmerican football player
From the journal: Dragon babies: the real demographics behind the belief · Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year
Elie’s cards
Computed from September 30, 1928. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal PioneerWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
5 · Explorer♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q18391 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elie Wiesel 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 Elie Wiesel.
Quick answers about Elie Wiesel’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Elie Wiesel?
- Elie Wiesel was a Libra: born September 30, 1928, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Elie Wiesel's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 30, 1928 birth.
- What was Elie Wiesel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Elie Wiesel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Elie Wiesel's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Elie Wiesel's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
