Elke Sommer
Elke Sommer (born November 5, 1940, Berlin, Germany), aged 86, is a German actress (born 1940). Sommer's honours include Bavarian Order of Merit and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress.
Elke Sommer’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Elke
Elke Sommer’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Guardian
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Elke in the U.S.?
#10330
US rank in 2025
~1,116
Americans share it since 1953
1968
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Elke falls under that line for 1940. Its peak came in 1968, and 1,116 Americans have carried it since 1953.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elke’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
3
Soul Urge · being heard
5
Personality · restless, adaptable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elke’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Camellia
Gold · Crimson · 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 1940, 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 Elke apart
The Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actress came in 1964, when Elke Sommer was 24.
Elke Sommer was 19 when the work began in 1959.
The family line: married Joe Hyams.
Wikipedia files Elke Sommer under People from Erlangen, German women singers and Actresses from Bavaria.
Vivien Leigh (1913) and Art Garfunkel (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, Actress (1964)
- Working from
- 1959
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 42
What the chart says
Elke, according to the stars
Core essence
Elke does not do surface. The core of Elke is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Elke is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Elke wants to be loved
Elke wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Elke gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Elke creates
How Elke makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Elke 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: Elke is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Elke 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Elke fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Elke's birth date. Working below.
Where Elke sits
Six lines
Elke’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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Elke Sommer
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Berlin 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 Berlin that night
Computed for 52.52°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Berlin at 9 p.m. that evening: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 12.0° of the exact zenith.
Of the 93 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
From 52.5°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Nothing below −37.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Berlin on any night.
The Moon, 39% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.
How unusual Elke's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Five planets retrograde · A leaning bowl
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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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunDeep water, no shallow end.
Elke Sommer's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 5, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Elke Sommer was born on November 5, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Elke Sommer's birth date, November 5, 1940, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Elke’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elke Sommer's date-only chart is Venus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Elke Sommer combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Guardian.
Elke’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.0° to 0.6° orb
Elke’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableVenussextilePluto0.0° to 0.7° orb
Elke’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.9° orb
Elke’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.1° to 2.2° orb
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.8° to 2.4° orb
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.0° to 3.1° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune2.3° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto5.9° to 6.0° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.8° to 6.9° orb
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Elke’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 1°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 13°09′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 17°17′ (moves 0.50° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 22°12′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres conjunction Sun 0.3°
- Ceres opposition Saturn 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.4°
- Eros square Mars 2.7°
- Ceres opposition Jupiter 2.8°
- Chiron conjunction Pluto 2.9°
- Chiron sextile Venus 3.0°
Elke’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Elke’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.
- Venus biquintile Jupiter 0.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
- Venus biquintile Saturn 0.8°
- Sun semi-square Neptune 1.0°
- Mars biquintile Uranus 1.4°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Elke’s cards
Computed from November 5, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elke’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q241115 (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 NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elke Sommer at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Elke Sommer’s chart
- How old is Elke Sommer?
- Elke Sommer is 86 years old, born November 5, 1940 in Berlin, Germany.
- What zodiac sign is Elke Sommer?
- Elke Sommer is a Scorpio: born November 5, 1940, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What is Elke Sommer's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 5, 1940 birth.
- What is Elke Sommer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Elke Sommer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Elke Sommer's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Elke Sommer's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
