Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood (born January 28, 1981, Cedar Rapids, United States), aged 45, is an American actor. Notable films include The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Wood's honours include Time Machine Award.
Elijah Wood’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Elijah
Elijah Wood’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Guardian
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Elijah in the U.S.?
#7
US rank in 2025
~381,915
Americans share it since 1880
2011
its peak year
In 1981, 750 American boys and 7 girls were registered Elijah — 277th among boys and 8,371st among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elijah’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
3
Expression · expression and voice
9
Soul Urge · meaning
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on E (5) and closes on H (8).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elijah’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1980, 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 Elijah apart
Carlos Slim (1940) and Will Poulter (1993) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Elijah, according to the stars
Core essence
Elijah is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Elijah 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, Elijah feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Elijah needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Elijah wants to be loved
Elijah wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Elijah you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.
How Elijah creates
How Elijah makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Elijah creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Elijah is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Elijah is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Elijah goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Elijah's birth date. Working below.
Where Elijah sits
Six lines
Elijah’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 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 be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Elijah Wood
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Cedar Rapids 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 Cedar Rapids that night
Computed for 41.98°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Cedar Rapids was Capella, in Auriga, 85.5° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 107 catalog stars were up in all.
Cedar Rapids sits at 42.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.0° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 41° below the horizon, Moon down and 41% lit at last quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Cedar Rapids, United States
- Lives in
- Austin
Wikidata records Austin as Elijah Wood's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Elijah Wood: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Elijah's chart is
Chart pattern score
47 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · A bowl chart · 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.
Score your own chart →Elijah Wood at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunAhead of the room by a decade.
Elijah Wood's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 28, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyWit is the tool.
Elijah Wood was born on January 28, 1981, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Elijah Wood's birth date, January 28, 1981, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Elijah’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elijah Wood's date-only chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Mars, 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.
- Elijah Wood combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Guardian.
Elijah’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Scorpio 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
stableSuntrineSaturn0.4° to 1.5° orb
Elijah’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb
Elijah’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.7° orb
Elijah’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileNeptune0.9° to 1.6° orb
stableSuntrineJupiter1.1° to 2.1° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto1.1° to 2.5° orb
stableMarstrinePluto1.2° to 2.0° orb
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.5° to 2.9° orb
stableVenussquarePluto1.9° to 3.1° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus2.7° to 4.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.1° to 3.7° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.8° to 11.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air6 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Elijah’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 13°25′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 16°37′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 22°08′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 22°53′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 3°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Mars 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.0°
- Eros square Pluto 2.2°
Elijah’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Elijah’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 0.9°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 1.5°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 2.0°
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on January 28
- Carlos Slim1940
- Will Poulter1993
- J. Cole1985
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Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- Brice SensabaughAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Bilal CoulibalyFrench basketball player (born 2004)
- Bub CarringtonAmerican basketball player (born 2005)
Other Aquarius Monkey charts
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- Alexander SvetakovRussian businessman
- Sergey ShishkarevRussian politician and businessperson
- Bidzina IvanishviliGeorgian billionaire and politician (born 1956)
Other Radiant Guardians
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Famous people with Life Path 3
- Ronnie HarrisonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Sam EhlingerAmerican football player
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From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?
Elijah’s cards
Computed from January 28, 1981. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Radiant GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elijah’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q483771 (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 Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elijah Wood at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Elijah Wood.
Quick answers about Elijah Wood’s chart
- How old is Elijah Wood?
- Elijah Wood is 45 years old, born January 28, 1981 in Cedar Rapids, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Elijah Wood?
- Elijah Wood is an Aquarius: born January 28, 1981, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Elijah Wood's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 28, 1981 birth.
- What is Elijah Wood's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Elijah Wood's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Elijah Wood's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Elijah Wood's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
