Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958, Metairie, United States, 08:43), aged 68, is an American comedian, television host, actress, and writer. DeGeneres is best known for Finding Dory, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Finding Nemo. DeGeneres's honours include Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.
Ellen DeGeneres’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
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Ellen DeGeneres’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Architect
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical 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
5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Hibiscus
Crimson · Ivory · Scarlet
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What the chart says
Ellen, according to the stars
Core essence
Ellen is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Ellen is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
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 as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Ellen be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Ellen creates
How Ellen makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Ellen creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Ellen is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Ellen is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Ellen has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Ellen's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Ellen DeGeneres's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.
Fire Rooster
Fire RoosterSays what everyone was thinking.
Ellen DeGeneres was born on January 26, 1958, which falls in a Fire Rooster year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rooster readings emphasise precision, candour and pride in appearance and in work done properly. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rooster as observant and punctual, the sign that notices and says so. The corresponding caution in the tradition is vanity, and a frankness that arrives before anyone asked for it.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Ellen DeGeneres's birth date, January 26, 1958, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Ellen’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Ellen DeGeneres' timed chart: Mars in the 10th house, Saturn in the 10th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Ellen DeGeneres' timed chart is Venus opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ellen DeGeneres combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Architect.
Ellen’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
VenusoppositionUranusseparating · 0.0° orb
Ellen’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
JupitersextilePlutoapplying · 0.6° orb
Ellen’s growth opens doors for their depths.
SunsquareNeptuneseparating · 1.4° orb
Ellen’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarsconjunctionSaturnseparating · 2.0° orb
Ellen’s drive and discipline act as one.
MoontrineSaturnapplying · 2.2° orb
Ellen’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.1° orb
Ellen’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 3.6° orb
Ellen’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
SunoppositionUranusapplying · 3.6° orb
Ellen’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 3.7° orb
Ellen’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MoontrineMarsapplying · 4.2° orb
Ellen’s feelings flow straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
VenussquareNeptuneapplying · 5.0° orb
Ellen’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 5.0° orb
Ellen’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunsquareJupiterseparating · 5.1° orb
Ellen’s core identity grinds against their growth.
MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 5.8° orb
Ellen’s feelings grind against their mind.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 16°39′ · House 12
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Ellen making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 20°07′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Cancer sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: care as instinct. Ellen is read as someone for whom looking after others is not a decision.
♡ ErosCapricorn 10°37′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Ellen is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ HygieaAries 14°53′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Ellen feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 27°13′ · House 1
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Ellen is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Ceres square Moon 0.1°
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.7°
- Eros sextile Ascendant 0.8°
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, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Pisces; 5 major aspects
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.
T-square onto Neptune · Venus, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Neptune · Sun, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
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.
- Venus semi-square Mars 0.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
- Sun semi-square Saturn 1.0°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 1.2°
Ellen’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.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
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| 1 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 9 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aries | Mars in Sagittarius, house 10 | Moon | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Taurus | Venus in Aquarius, house 12 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Gemini | Mercury in Capricorn, house 11 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Cancer | Moon in Aries, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Leo | Sun in Aquarius, house 12 | Uranus | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Virgo | Mercury in Capricorn, house 11 | Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Libra | Venus in Aquarius, house 12 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 7 | Jupiter, Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 9 | Mars, Saturn | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Capricorn | Saturn in Sagittarius, house 10 | Mercury | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aquarius | Uranus in Leo, house 6 | Sun, Venus | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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One relative of Ellen DeGeneres also has a chart on AsterNym.
Born the same day as Ellen
Xavier Becerra was born on January 26, 1958 too, the same date with the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. Same sky, different lives.
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Ellen’s cards
Every card is computed from January 26, 1958, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Ellen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q483325, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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 Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ellen DeGeneres at Wikipedia, ellentube.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok 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 Ellen DeGeneres’s chart
- How old is Ellen DeGeneres?
- Ellen DeGeneres is 68 years old, born January 26, 1958 in Metairie, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ellen DeGeneres?
- Ellen DeGeneres is an Aquarius: born January 26, 1958, which puts the Sun in Aquarius at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Rooster.
- What is Ellen DeGeneres's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 26, 1958 birth.
- What time was Ellen DeGeneres born?
- 08:43 local time in Metairie, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
- What is Ellen DeGeneres's rising sign?
- Pisces rising, calculated from the documented 08:43 birth time in Metairie, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
- How tall is Ellen DeGeneres?
- Ellen DeGeneres is 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Ellen DeGeneres's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 26, 1958 birth date.
- What is Ellen DeGeneres's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 16°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 26, 1958 birth time.
- Where is Ellen DeGeneres's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 27°, in the first house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ellen DeGeneres's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects). Uranus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
