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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Pig, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Ellen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ellen sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
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. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Ellen Barry, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Libra or Scorpio 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.
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
Ellen’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° to 5.0° orb
Ellen’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrinePluto6.2° to 6.4° orb
Ellen’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
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
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.
⚷ ChironAries 10°28′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Ellen may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 24°13′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Ellen is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosTaurus 4°02′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Ellen wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 4°50′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Ellen at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 24°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Ellen exacting with themselves first.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Ellen’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. ♂ 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
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Ellen is read as acting first and reflecting after.
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 Ellen’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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ellen Barry, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Ellen’s cards
Every card is computed from April 11, 1971, 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 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
No birth time is on public record for Ellen Barry, 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
Ellen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q5364750, 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.
The same Ellen Barry at Wikipedia and X.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig.
- 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 time was Ellen Barry 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 Ellen Barry's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 11, 1971 birth date.
- What is Ellen Barry's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 11, 1971 birth date.
- 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.
