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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Monkey, with 
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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
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Elijah’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
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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, 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 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.
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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. 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.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Elijah Wood, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 8° to 20° Scorpio 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.
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
Elijah’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.1° to 2.1° orb
Elijah’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMercurytrinePluto1.1° to 2.5° orb
Elijah’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarstrinePluto1.2° to 2.0° orb
Elijah’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurysextileNeptune1.5° to 2.9° orb
Elijah’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenussquarePluto1.9° to 3.1° orb
Elijah’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquareUranus2.7° to 4.1° orb
Elijah’s mind grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.1° to 3.7° orb
Elijah’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
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
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.
⚷ ChironTaurus 13°25′ (moves 0.01° 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 Elijah building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 16°37′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Elijah is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCapricorn 22°08′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Elijah is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaTaurus 22°53′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Elijah is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 3°22′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Elijah is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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 square Mars 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Venus 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.0°
- Eros square Pluto 2.2°
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°).
Elijah’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. ♅ 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
A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Elijah 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 Elijah’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, 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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Elijah Wood, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Elijah’s cards
Every card is computed from January 28, 1981, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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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
No birth time is on public record for Elijah Wood, 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
Elijah’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q483771, 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 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. 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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Monkey.
- 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 time was Elijah Wood 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 is Elijah Wood's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the January 28, 1981 birth date.
- What is Elijah Wood's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 28, 1981 birth date.
- 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.
