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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Monkey, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
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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
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
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 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 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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ellen sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
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
No documented birth time exists for Ellen Burstyn, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 10° to 22° Aries 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.
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
Ellen’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersextilePluto1.3° to 1.4° orb
Ellen’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableVenussextileMars2.2° to 3.1° orb
Ellen’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableVenussextileNeptune2.4° to 3.6° orb
Ellen’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableUranussquarePluto3.4° orb
Ellen’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSuntrineUranus3.7° to 4.7° orb
Ellen’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareMars4.6° to 5.2° orb
Ellen’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableSunsquareNeptune4.7° to 5.7° orb
Ellen’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareJupiter5.9° to 6.8° orb
Ellen’s core identity grinds against their growth.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 25°07′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Ellen building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresAquarius 2°59′ (moves 0.34° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Ellen is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.
♡ ErosLibra 23°52′ (moves 0.85° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Ellen is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaScorpio 2°59′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Scorpio is read as health through release and honest reckoning. The tradition has Ellen carrying stress in the body until it is named.
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 24°26′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Taurus is read as an unbargained appetite: for pleasure, for ownership, for a body that answers to nobody. Ellen is read as immovable on those points.
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 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°
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. ♃ 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
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Ellen is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Uranus 2.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ellen Burstyn, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on December 7
- Nicholas Hoult1989
- Chris Wood1991
- Caleb Landry Jones1989
- Dan Bilzerian1980
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Ellen’s cards
Every card is computed from December 7, 1932, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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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
No birth time is on public record for Ellen Burstyn, 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 Q211144, 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 David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ellen Burstyn at Wikipedia and IMDb.
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 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Monkey.
- 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.
- What time was Ellen Burstyn 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.
- 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 from the December 7, 1932 birth date.
- What is Ellen Burstyn's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 7, 1932 birth date.
- 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.
