Ellen Barry
Ellen Barry (born April 11, 1971, Tarrytown, United States), aged 55, is an American journalist. Barry's honours include Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and George Polk Award.
Ellen Barry’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Ellen
Ellen Barry’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ellen in the U.S.?
#1062
US rank in 2025
~276,029
Americans share it since 1880
1951
its peak year
In 1971, 1,392 American girls were registered Ellen — 218th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ellen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
2
Soul Urge · closeness
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on E (5) and closes on N (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
Ellen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1971, 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 Ellen apart
The George Polk Award came in 2010, when Ellen Barry was 39.
Study took Ellen Barry to Ezra Stiles College and Yale University.
On Wikipedia the categories read The Moscow Times people, Yale College alumni and Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners.
Alessandra Ambrosio (1981) and Duncan Laurence (1994) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Ezra Stiles College and Yale University
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2011) and George Polk Award (2010)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 4
What the chart says
Ellen, according to the stars
Core essence
Ellen leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Ellen is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Ellen wants to be loved
Ellen wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Ellen, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Ellen creates
How Ellen makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Ellen creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Ellen is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ellen is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Ellen does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Ellen's birth date. Working below.
Where Ellen sits
Six lines
Ellen’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Ellen Barry
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tarrytown 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 Tarrytown that night
Computed for 41.07°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Tarrytown at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 0.7° of the exact zenith.
Of the 104 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Tarrytown sits at 41.1°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Tarrytown at all: they sit past the −48.9° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon, 98% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 26° below the horizon.
How unusual Ellen's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Five planets retrograde
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 →The quick version
Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Ellen Barry's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 11, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Ellen Barry was born on April 11, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Care is the whole job.
Ellen Barry's birth date, April 11, 1971, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Ellen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ellen Barry's date-only chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of about 2°.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Ellen Barry combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Ellen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Libra or Scorpio 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
stableVenussextileMars1.9° to 2.5° orb
Ellen’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSunsquareMars3.1° to 3.5° orb
Ellen’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.2° orb
Ellen’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrineSaturn3.3° to 3.8° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.2° to 6.4° orb
possibleMoonoppositionMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 4.1° to 15.2° depending on birth time
possibleMarssquareUranusorb from 6.5° to 7.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Ellen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 10°28′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°13′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 4°02′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 4°50′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 24°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros conjunction Mercury 0.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.6°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 1.1°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.3°
- Hygiea trine Neptune 2.1°
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 2.8°
Ellen’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Mercury, Saturn, Uranus; 1 major aspect
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Ellen’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.
- Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.2°
- Mars semi-square Neptune 0.2°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 0.3°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.8°
- Mercury quincunx Jupiter 2.3°
More people like Ellen
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- Tamron Hall1970
- Kelly Rizzo1979
- Don Lemon1966
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Born in United States
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More charts like Ellen’s
Fellow Aries suns
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- Marvin GayeAmerican R&B and soul singer
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Born in Pig years
- Timothy B. SchmitAmerican musician
- Leroy SanéGerman association football player
- Fredrik AursnesNorwegian association football player (born 1995)
Also born on April 11
- Alessandra Ambrosio1981
- Duncan Laurence1994
- Thiago Alcântara1991
- Summer Walker1996
- Danielle Marsh2005
- Stephanie Pratt1986
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- De'Aaron FoxAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- Josh HartAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Deni AvdijaIsraeli basketball player (born 2001)
Other Aries Pig charts
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Other Radiant Diplomats
- Leslie Odom Jr.American actor and singer (born 1981)
- Fatima Sana ShaikhIndian film and television actress
- Jack CardiffBritish cinematographer, director and photographer
- Vanessa RedgraveBritish actress and activist (born 1937)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Sukanto TanotoIndonesian businessman (born 1949)
- Yōichi ErikawaJapanese video game director and businessman
- Harald LinkThai businessman
From the journal: Flying Star feng shui: the one that changes with time · What is a birth chart? How the chart is calculated
Ellen’s cards
Computed from April 11, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ellen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5364750 (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 Ellen Barry at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ellen Barry.
Quick answers about Ellen Barry’s chart
- How old is Ellen Barry?
- Ellen Barry is 55 years old, born April 11, 1971 in Tarrytown, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ellen Barry?
- Ellen Barry is an Aries: born April 11, 1971, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What is Ellen Barry's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 11, 1971 birth.
- What is Ellen Barry's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ellen Barry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ellen Barry's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ellen Barry's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
