Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert (born July 6, 1961, The Bronx, United States), aged 65, is an American journalist and author. Kolbert is best known for The Sixth Extinction and The Prophet of Love. Kolbert's honours include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Guggenheim Fellowship and Lannan Literary Awards.
Elizabeth Kolbert’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Elizabeth
Elizabeth Kolbert’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Elizabeth in the U.S.?
#17
US rank in 2025
~1,693,973
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
The SSA recorded 18,855 American girls and 66 boys named Elizabeth in 1961: 19th among girls and 941st among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elizabeth’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on H (8). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elizabeth’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Elizabeth apart
The record Elizabeth Kolbert is measured by: The Sixth Extinction and The Prophet of Love.
Study took Elizabeth Kolbert to Saybrook College and Mamaroneck High School.
Wikipedia files Elizabeth Kolbert under American environmental journalists, Writers from the Bronx and People from Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Richard Mofe Damijo shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- The Sixth Extinction and The Prophet of Love
- Educated at
- Saybrook College, Mamaroneck High School and Yale University
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2010), Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2015) and National Magazine Award (2006)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 21
What the chart says
Elizabeth, according to the stars
Core essence
Elizabeth feels the room before entering it. The core of Elizabeth is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Elizabeth, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
How Elizabeth wants to be loved
Elizabeth wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Elizabeth is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Elizabeth creates
How Elizabeth makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Elizabeth creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Elizabeth is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Elizabeth 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Elizabeth channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Elizabeth's birth date. Working below.
Where Elizabeth sits
Six lines
Elizabeth’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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.
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 Elizabeth Kolbert
Three stars chosen from the real sky above The Bronx 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 The Bronx that night
Computed for 40.85°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at The Bronx at 9 p.m. that evening: Izar of Boötes, within 14.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
The Bronx sits at 40.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from The Bronx on any night.
The Moon was at waning crescent, 30% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 5° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- The Bronx, United States
- Lives in
- Williamstown
Wikidata records Williamstown as Elizabeth Kolbert'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 Elizabeth Kolbert: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Elizabeth's chart is
Chart pattern score
31 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Jupiter · 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 →Elizabeth Kolbert at a glance
Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Elizabeth Kolbert's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 6, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Elizabeth Kolbert was born on July 6, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Makes feelings into something.
Elizabeth Kolbert's birth date, July 6, 1961, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Elizabeth’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elizabeth Kolbert's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five of the ten planets are in Earth signs.
- Elizabeth Kolbert combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Elizabeth’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMarsconjunctionPluto1.3° to 1.9° orb
Elizabeth’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenustrineSaturn1.4° to 2.5° orb
Elizabeth’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.4° to 2.5° orb
Elizabeth’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercurysextileMars2.6° to 3.4° orb
stableMarssextileNeptune3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto4.5° to 4.7° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter4.5° to 5.7° orb
stableVenussquareMars4.9° to 5.3° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune5.2° to 6.2° orb
stableVenussquareUranus5.4° to 6.4° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Elizabeth’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°21′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 12°11′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 8°07′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 19°07′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 17°16′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 0.5°
- Chiron opposition Mars 1.8°
- Eros sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Ceres sextile Sun 2.1°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
Elizabeth’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Elizabeth’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.0°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.6°
Born the same day as Elizabeth
Richard Mofe Damijo was born on July 6, 1961 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from The Bronx, at 40.8°N, nothing below −49.2° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Elizabeth
Other writers
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Born in United States
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More charts like Elizabeth’s
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Born in Ox years
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- Keisean NixonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Jordan MeredithAmerican football player offensive guard
Also born on July 6
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- Sylvester Stallone1946
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Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Zach LaVineAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Jalen BrunsonAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- OG AnunobyBritish basketball player (born 1997)
Other Cancer Ox charts
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Other Gilded Diplomats
- Nate LandmanZimbabwean-American football player
- Evan NealAmerican football offensive tackle
- Devin LloydAmerican football player (born 1998)
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Famous people with Life Path 3
- Carolyn KizerAmerican poet
- John TolandAmerican writer
- Horst FaasGerman photojournalist
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Elizabeth’s cards
Computed from July 6, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
3 · Storyteller☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elizabeth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5363086 (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.
The same Elizabeth Kolbert at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.
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Quick answers about Elizabeth Kolbert’s chart
- How old is Elizabeth Kolbert?
- Elizabeth Kolbert is 65 years old, born July 6, 1961 in The Bronx, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Elizabeth Kolbert?
- Elizabeth Kolbert is a Cancer: born July 6, 1961, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Elizabeth Kolbert's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 6, 1961 birth.
- What is Elizabeth Kolbert's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Elizabeth Kolbert's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Elizabeth Kolbert's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Elizabeth Kolbert's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Taurus; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
