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Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956, Portland, United States), aged 70, is an American novelist (born 1956). Strout is best known for Amy and Isabelle. Strout's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Bancarella Literary Prize.

Elizabeth Strout’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

Your match with Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Strout’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Strategist

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

Elizabeth ranked 22nd among girls and 1,345th among boys in 1956, the year of this birth, with 16,355 American girls and 33 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Elizabeth’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

11

Soul Urge · insight

1

Personality · self-directed

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

1 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green

The record

What sets Elizabeth apart

Rowan Atkinson (1955) and Eddie Redmayne (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Elizabeth, according to the stars

Core essence

Elizabeth is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Elizabeth is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.

How Elizabeth wants to be loved

Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Elizabeth creates

How Elizabeth makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Elizabeth creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Elizabeth is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Elizabeth is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Elizabeth leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Elizabeth runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Elizabeth

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Elizabeth

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Elizabeth

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Elizabeth

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Elizabeth

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Elizabeth

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Elizabeth Strout

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Portland on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Elizabeth’s birth-night reference starMenkibblue · PerseusMenkib, in Perseus. A blue star, 80.6° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkib →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 80.5° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Portland that night

Computed for 43.66°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Portland was Menkib, in Perseus, 80.6° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 107 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 43.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Portland at all: they sit past the −46.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning crescent, 29% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 49° down.

How unusual Elizabeth's chart is

Chart pattern score

66 / 100 · Unusual

2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Neptune · 4 planets 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.

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The quick version

Capricorn Sun

Working while you were asleep.

Elizabeth Strout's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 6, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Capricorn means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Elizabeth Strout was born on January 6, 1956, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 1

Goes first. Works it out.

Elizabeth Strout's birth date, January 6, 1956, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Elizabeth’s chart

Elizabeth’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 11° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.7° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.7° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.2° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.4° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.9° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 2.3° orbMercury faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2.4° orbSun in Capricorn · 15°22′☉15°Moon in Scorpio · 5°39′☽5°Mercury in Aquarius · 3°19′☿3°Venus in Aquarius · 16°36′♀16°Mars in Scorpio · 25°10′♂25°Jupiter in Virgo · 0°54′ · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Scorpio · 29°27′♄29°Uranus in Leo · 0°55′ · retrograde♅℞0°Neptune in Scorpio · 0°14′♆0°Pluto in Leo · 28°18′ · retrograde♇℞28°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune0.6° to 0.7° orb

    Elizabeth’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune0.7° orb

    Elizabeth’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto1.1° to 1.2° orb

    Elizabeth’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.4° to 1.5° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus1.4° to 1.5° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.7° to 3.1° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.9° to 2.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune2.4° to 3.8° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionPluto2.6° orb

  • stableMarssquarePluto2.8° to 3.5° orb

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn3.2° to 4.5° orb

  • stableMarsconjunctionSaturn4.0° to 4.6° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed8 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Elizabeth’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 4°18′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 13°00′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 2°21′ (moves 0.72° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaSagittarius 21°40′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 3°34′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.0°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 1.0°
  • Eros trine Uranus 1.4°
  • Eros square Jupiter 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.7°
  • Eros conjunction Saturn 2.9°

Elizabeth’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♇ Pluto7 pts

    disposes Mars, Saturn, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    disposes Mercury, Venus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Elizabeth’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.0°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.5°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 0.8°
  • Sun semi-square Saturn 0.9°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.2°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.4°

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Elizabeth’s cards

Computed from January 6, 1956. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

Western zodiac

Capricorn

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Elizabeth’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q262712 (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 Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Elizabeth Strout at Wikipedia, elizabethstrout.com, IMDb, Instagram and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Elizabeth Strout.

Quick answers about Elizabeth Strout’s chart

How old is Elizabeth Strout?
Elizabeth Strout is 70 years old, born January 6, 1956 in Portland, United States.
What zodiac sign is Elizabeth Strout?
Elizabeth Strout is a Capricorn: born January 6, 1956, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
What is Elizabeth Strout's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 6, 1956 birth.
What is Elizabeth Strout's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Elizabeth Strout's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Elizabeth Strout's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Elizabeth Strout's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun; 5 major aspects). Pluto is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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