Elke Sommer
Elke Sommer (born November 5, 1940, Berlin, Germany), aged 85, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Dragon, with 
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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.?
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US rank in 2025
~1,116
Americans share it since 1880
1968
its peak year
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Elke’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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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.
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Elke Sommer in 15 seconds
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. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. 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 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
No documented birth time exists for Elke Sommer, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Capricorn or Aquarius 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.
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
Elke’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryoppositionUranus1.8° to 2.4° orb
Elke’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableSunoppositionJupiter2.0° to 3.1° orb
Elke’s core identity pulls against their growth from across the wheel.
stableUranustrineNeptune2.3° orb
Elke’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableJupitersquarePluto5.9° to 6.0° orb
Elke’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableSaturnsquarePluto6.8° to 6.9° orb
Elke’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 1°27′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Elke performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresScorpio 13°09′ (moves 0.44° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Elke is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosCapricorn 17°17′ (moves 0.50° 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. Elke is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 22°12′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Elke needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 16°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Elke carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Elke’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. ♇ 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
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Elke is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
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 Elke’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Elke Sommer, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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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
Every card is computed from November 5, 1940, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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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
No birth time is on public record for Elke Sommer, 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
Elke’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q241115, 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 NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elke Sommer at Wikipedia, IMDb 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Elke Sommer.
Quick answers about Elke Sommer’s chart
- How old is Elke Sommer?
- Elke Sommer is 85 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Dragon.
- 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 time was Elke Sommer 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 Elke Sommer's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the November 5, 1940 birth date.
- What is Elke Sommer's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons for the November 5, 1940 birth date.
- 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.
