Elihu Root
Elihu Root (born February 15, 1845, Clinton, United States; died 1937), was an American politician. Root held office as senator and United States senator. Root's honours include Nobel Peace Prize, Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown and doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris.
Elihu Root’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Wood Snake, with 
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Elihu Root’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Scholar
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Elihu in the U.S.?
#6216
US rank in 2025
~1,236
Americans share it since 1880
1928
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Elihu’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Elihu, according to the stars
Core essence
Elihu is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Elihu is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
The vibe
Underneath, Elihu 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 Elihu needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.
How Elihu wants to be loved
Elihu wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Elihu be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Elihu creates
How Elihu makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Elihu creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Elihu is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Elihu 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 fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Elihu has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Elihu's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Elihu 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 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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Elihu Root at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Elihu Root's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 15, 1845, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Wood Snake
Wood SnakeWise, cool, hard to read.
Elihu Root was born on February 15, 1845, which falls in a Wood Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Elihu Root's birth date, February 15, 1845, 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 Elihu’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elihu Root's date-only chart is Venus sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Neptune, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Elihu Root combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Scholar.
Elihu’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Elihu Root, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° 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.
stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 0.9° orb
Elihu’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.2° to 1.5° orb
Elihu’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.4° to 1.5° orb
Elihu’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus1.0° to 1.1° orb
Elihu’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.1° to 1.3° orb
Elihu’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
Elihu’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.5° to 2.6° orb
Elihu’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.9° to 3.9° orb
Elihu’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrinePluto5.2° to 5.9° orb
Elihu’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.8° to 7.9° orb
Elihu’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 7.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth or Water signs.
Elihu’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 ℞Virgo 16°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Virgo is read as a wound around never being good enough. The reading has Elihu turning that pressure into craft and an eye for what others miss.
⚳ CeresAquarius 1°42′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Elihu is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosSagittarius 20°51′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Elihu attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 8°20′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Elihu is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 21°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Elihu that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- Chiron square Mars 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.7°
- Eros trine Pluto 1.4°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Uranus 2.4°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.6°
- Eros sextile Neptune 2.7°
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°).
Elihu’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. ♅ Uranus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
4 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Elihu is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.
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 Elihu’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.
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
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.
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.5°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Elihu Root, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Elihu’s cards
Every card is computed from February 15, 1845, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
乙
yin Wood
巳
Snake
Fire
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Elihu Root, 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
Elihu’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q220619, 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 George Prince, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elihu Root at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about Elihu Root’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Elihu Root?
- Elihu Root was an Aquarius: born February 15, 1845, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Wood Snake.
- What was Elihu Root's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Snake, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 15, 1845 birth.
- What time was Elihu Root 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 Elihu Root's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the February 15, 1845 birth date.
- What was Elihu Root's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons for the February 15, 1845 birth date.
- Where was Elihu Root's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Elihu Root's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
