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, Chinese zodiac was Wood Snake, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Snake, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Elihu
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 name records start in 1880, 35 years after this birth. In that first year Elihu ranked 848th, with 6 American boys registered.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elihu’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
11
Soul Urge · insight
22
Personality · quietly formidable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on U (3).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elihu’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Elihu apart
Megan Thee Stallion (1995) and Miranda July (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Elihu sits
Six lines
Elihu’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 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 Elihu Root
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Clinton 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 Clinton that night
Computed for 43.05°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Clinton at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 9.2° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 43.0°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Clinton on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 67% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 37° down.
How unusual Elihu's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Aquarius · A bowl chart · Only two elements
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Snake means →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.
What Life Path 8 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 19° 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
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
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.1° to 1.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
stableMercurysextileJupiter1.5° to 2.6° orb
stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableMarstrinePluto5.2° to 5.9° orb
stableVenusconjunctionSaturn6.8° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Virgo 16°23′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 1°42′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 20°51′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 8°20′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 21°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Elihu’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Elihu’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.5°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.5°
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Fellow Aquarius suns
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Born in Snake years
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- Julian ChampagnieAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Andre Jackson Jr.American basketball player (born 2001)
Also born on February 15
- Megan Thee Stallion1995
- Miranda July1974
- Callum Turner1990
- Sodapoppin1994
- Omarosa Manigault Newman1974
- Amber Riley1986
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Ethel Romig FullerAmerican poet
- Matthew VaughnBritish film producer, director and screenwriter
- William GibsonAmerican-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
Other Aquarius Snake charts
- Nailea DevoraAmerican influencer
- Anil Agarwalbusinessman
- Shin Dong-jooKorean/Japanese businessperson
- Barry DillerAmerican businessman (born 1942)
Other Gilded Scholars
- Lake BellAmerican actress, director and screenwriter (born 1979)
- Jason BehrAmerican actor
- Lance BassAmerican singer, dancer, actor, and film and television producer
- Danielle BrooksAmerican actress
Famous people with Life Path 8
- James FranckGerman-American physicist
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- Max von LaueGerman physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi
From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Elihu’s cards
Computed from February 15, 1845. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ScholarWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Snake 巳Life Path
8 · Achiever♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elihu’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q220619 (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 George Prince, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elihu Root at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Elihu Root.
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.
- 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 was Elihu Root's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Elihu Root's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Virgo at 16°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
