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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald (born April 25, 1917, Newport News, United States, 12:30; died 1996), was an American jazz singer. Best-known releases include Ella and Louis. Fitzgerald's honours include National Women's Hall of Fame, Kennedy Center Honors and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ella Fitzgerald’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Ella Fitzgerald’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 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Ella in the U.S.?

#29

US rank in 2025

~352,214

Americans share it since 1880

2010

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Ella’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌺 Poppy

White · Blush · Flame orange

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What the chart says

Ella, according to the stars

Core essence

Ella is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Ella is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Ella processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Ella needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Ella wants to be loved

Ella 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 Ella is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.

How Ella creates

How Ella makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Ella creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.

Instinct

Instinct: Ella is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 2 is the peacemaker. Ella is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ella gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

Computed from Ella's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Ella sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Ella

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ella

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Ella

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ella

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

PracticalVisionary
Ella

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ella

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

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Ella Fitzgerald

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

Ella’s birth-sky starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 83.8° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 60.2° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Newport News at 12:30, the birth time on Ella Fitzgerald’s AA-rated record. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Ella Fitzgerald at a glance

Taurus Sun

Slow to move, slower to leave.

Ella Fitzgerald's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.

Fire Snake

Says less than it knows.

Ella Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, which falls in a Fire Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 2

Holds the room together.

Ella Fitzgerald's birth date, April 25, 1917, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 2 readings associate the number with cooperation, diplomacy and mediation: working alongside others and holding a group together. Numerologists describe it as the path of the partner, and read its influence as quiet rather than visible. The corresponding tension is self-effacement, with the caution that influence exercised through others can go uncounted, including by the person exercising it.

What stands out in Ella’s chart

Ella’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 0.2° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.2° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.6° orbMars grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.4° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 1.8° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.1° orbSun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.6° orbSun in Taurus · 4°55′ · house 10☉4°Moon in Gemini · 26°02′ · house 11☽26°Mercury in Taurus · 25°05′ · house 10☿25°Venus in Taurus · 4°45′ · house 10♀4°Mars in Aries · 23°04′ · house 9♂23°Jupiter in Taurus · 14°59′ · house 10♃14°Saturn in Cancer · 24°30′ · house 12♄24°Uranus in Aquarius · 23°16′ · house 7♅23°Neptune in Leo · 2°08′ · house 1♆2°Pluto in Cancer · 2°38′ · house 12♇2°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLeo 18°37′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAqr 18°37′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 11°36′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 11°36′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 0.2° orb

    Ella’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • MarssextileUranusapplying · 0.2° orb

    Ella’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MercurysextileSaturnseparating · 0.6° orb

    Ella’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • MarssquareSaturnapplying · 1.4° orb

    Ella’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • MercurysquareUranusseparating · 1.8° orb

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

  • VenussextilePlutoseparating · 2.1° orb

    Ella’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • SunsextilePlutoseparating · 2.3° orb

    Ella’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • VenussquareNeptuneseparating · 2.6° orb

    Ella’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 2.8° orb

    Ella’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • MoontrineUranusseparating · 2.8° orb

    Ella’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.

  • MoonsextileMarsseparating · 3.0° orb

    Ella’s feelings open doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • MoonconjunctionPlutoapplying · 6.6° orb

    Ella’s feelings and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • SaturnconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 7.6° orb

    Ella’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth4 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.

Ella’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.

  • ⚷ ChironPisces 28°03′ · House 8

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

    Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Ella absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 8°11′ · House 2

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

    Ceres in Virgo is read as nurture through usefulness: fixing, sorting, noticing. The reading has Ella caring in practical detail rather than in words.

  • ♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 24°46′ · House 4

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

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Ella is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ HygieaAquarius 5°26′ · House 7

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

    Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Ella is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 18°52′ · House 1

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Ella is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.

  • Eros opposition Mercury 0.3°
  • Eros trine Saturn 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Ascendant 0.3°
  • Hygiea square Sun 0.5°
  • Hygiea square Venus 0.7°
  • Eros square Uranus 1.5°
  • Chiron square Moon 2.0°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 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°).

Ella’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.

  1. 1. ♀ Venus13 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Neptune; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Gemini; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects

A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ella is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.

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 Ella’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, JupiterThree 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.

  • Sun quintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Venus quintile Uranus 0.5°
  • Neptune semi-sextile Pluto 0.5°
  • Moon semi-sextile Mercury 1.0°
  • Saturn quincunx Uranus 1.2°
  • Moon semi-sextile Saturn 1.5°

Ella’s houses

Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.

HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LeoSun in Taurus, house 10Neptuneself, body, how you arrive
2VirgoMercury in Taurus, house 10emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3LibraVenus in Taurus, house 10emptymind, siblings, the local world
4ScorpioPluto in Cancer, house 12emptyhome, family, roots
5SagittariusJupiter in Taurus, house 10emptycreativity, romance, play
6CapricornSaturn in Cancer, house 12emptywork, habits, health
7AquariusUranus in Aquarius, house 7Uranuspartnership, marriage, open rivals
8PiscesNeptune in Leo, house 1emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AriesMars in Aries, house 9Marsbelief, travel, higher learning
10TaurusVenus in Taurus, house 10Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupitercareer, reputation, public life
11GeminiMercury in Taurus, house 10Moonfriends, community, the future
12CancerMoon in Gemini, house 11Saturn, Plutothe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Ella’s cards

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Judgement

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The Radiant Guardian

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Western zodiac

Taurus

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this data comes from

Ella’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1768, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Lewin/Kaufman/Schwartz, Public Relations, Beverly Hills, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ella Fitzgerald at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube 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 Ella Fitzgerald’s chart

What zodiac sign was Ella Fitzgerald?
Ella Fitzgerald was a Taurus: born April 25, 1917, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Snake.
What was Ella Fitzgerald's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 25, 1917 birth.
What time was Ella Fitzgerald born?
12:30 local time in Newport News, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Ella Fitzgerald's rising sign?
Leo rising, calculated from the documented 12:30 birth time in Newport News, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Ella Fitzgerald's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology from the April 25, 1917 birth date.
What was Ella Fitzgerald's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Pisces at 28°, in the eighth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 25, 1917 birth time.
Where was Ella Fitzgerald's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 18°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Ella Fitzgerald's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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