Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932, Detroit, United States), aged 93, is an American actress. Burstyn is best known for Same Time, Next Year, Political Animals and The Last Picture Show. Burstyn's honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Ellen Burstyn’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Water Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Ellen
Ellen Burstyn’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Seeker
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive 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
Of the names registered in 1932, Ellen came 104th among girls and 2,365th among boys, carried by 2,370 American girls and 11 boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ellen’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
1
Personality · self-directed
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
7 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 💠 Water Lily
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
The record
What sets Ellen apart
Nicholas Hoult (1989) and Chris Wood (1991) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ellen, according to the stars
Core essence
Ellen is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Ellen is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Ellen runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Ellen needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Ellen wants to be loved
Ellen wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Ellen even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Ellen creates
How Ellen makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Ellen 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: Ellen is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Ellen is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Ellen channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
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 may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Burstyn
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit 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 Detroit that night
Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Detroit was Almach, in Andromeda, 85.3° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
From 42.3°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Detroit at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon up and 79% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Ellen's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet
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
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
Ellen Burstyn's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 7, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Ellen Burstyn was born on December 7, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Ellen Burstyn's birth date, December 7, 1932, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Ellen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ellen Burstyn's date-only chart is Mars conjunction Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ellen Burstyn combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Seeker.
Ellen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Aries 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
stableSuntrineMoon0.0° to 6.8° orb
Ellen’s core identity flows straight into their feelings.
stableMarsconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 0.5° orb
Ellen’s drive and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercurysquareNeptune1.2° to 2.3° orb
Ellen’s mind grinds against their imagination.
stableMercurysquareMars1.3° to 2.9° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
stableVenussextileMars2.2° to 3.1° orb
stableVenussextileNeptune2.4° to 3.6° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.4° orb
stableSuntrineUranus3.7° to 4.7° orb
stableSunsquareMars4.6° to 5.2° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune4.7° to 5.7° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter5.9° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Ellen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 25°07′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAquarius 2°59′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 23°52′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 2°59′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 24°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros square Pluto 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Ceres conjunction Saturn 1.5°
- Hygiea square Saturn 1.5°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.7°
Ellen’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
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 sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.1°
More people like Ellen
Other actors
- Louise Fletcher1934
- Elizabeth Taylor1932
- Sydney Pollack1934
- Miriam Makeba1932
- Gloria Foster1933
- Walter Mercado1932
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More charts like Ellen’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Patty DukeAmerican actress
- Don JohnsonAmerican actor and singer (born 1949)
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Born in Monkey years
- Pierre-Louis LionsFrench mathematician and Fields Medalist
- Pierre DeligneBelgian mathematician
- John G. ThompsonAmerican mathematician
Also born on December 7
- Nicholas Hoult1989
- Chris Wood1991
- Caleb Landry Jones1989
- Dan Bilzerian1980
- Aaron Carter1987
- Terrell Owens1973
Fellow Yang Water day masters
- Durham SmytheAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Sam MustipherAmerican football center
- Christian Rozeboomfootball player (born 1997)
Other Sagittarius Monkey charts
- Jake GyllenhaalAmerican actor
- Brendan FraserCanadian-American actor
- Emmanuelle CharpentierFrench microbiologist and biochemist
- Lucy LiuAmerican actress
Other Tidal Seekers
- Tobias HarrisAmerican basketball player (born 1992)
- Oso IghodaroAmerican basketball player
- Chucky HepburnAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Yves MissiCameroonian basketball player (born 2004)
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Isabel MayAmerican actress
- Lexi JonesEnglish photographer, fashion designer, and singer-songwriter; daughter of David Bowie
- Jade CareyAmerican artistic gymnast
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Ellen’s cards
Computed from December 7, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
7 · Seeker♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ellen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q211144 (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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ellen Burstyn at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ellen Burstyn.
Quick answers about Ellen Burstyn’s chart
- How old is Ellen Burstyn?
- Ellen Burstyn is 93 years old, born December 7, 1932 in Detroit, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ellen Burstyn?
- Ellen Burstyn is a Sagittarius: born December 7, 1932, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Ellen Burstyn's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 7, 1932 birth.
- How tall is Ellen Burstyn?
- Ellen Burstyn is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Ellen Burstyn's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ellen Burstyn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ellen Burstyn's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ellen Burstyn's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
