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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Dragon, with 
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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.
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US rank in 2025
~3,405
Americans share it since 1880
2009
its peak year
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Elie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
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
No documented birth time exists for Elie Wiesel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 26° Aries 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.
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
Elie’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileNeptune2.0° to 2.9° orb
Elie’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenustrineMars2.1° to 2.9° orb
Elie’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMercurytrineMars3.6° to 4.1° orb
Elie’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryoppositionJupiter5.6° to 6.7° orb
Elie’s mind pulls against their growth from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMarssquareUranus6.3° to 6.7° orb
Elie’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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 ℞Taurus 9°11′ (moves 0.04° 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 Elie building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 5°32′ (moves 0.14° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Elie is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 26°19′ (moves 0.21° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Elie is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 18°06′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Elie is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 4°04′ (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 Elie 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 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°
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°).
Elie’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Elie 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 Elie’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Sun quincunx Jupiter 1.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Elie Wiesel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Elie’s cards
Every card is computed from September 30, 1928, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Elie Wiesel, 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
Elie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q18391, 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elie Wiesel 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Dragon.
- 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 time was Elie Wiesel 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 was Elie Wiesel's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the September 30, 1928 birth date.
- What was Elie Wiesel's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 30, 1928 birth date.
- 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.
