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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rooster, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Rooster, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Ellen
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
In 1958, 5,156 American girls and 12 boys were registered Ellen — 93rd among girls and 2,404th among boys 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
3
Soul Urge · being heard
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
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1957, 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
Finding Dory, Ellen and Finding Nemo. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through Atlanta High School and Grace King High School.
Ellen DeGeneres was 20 when the work began in 1978.
Ellen DeGeneres was born to Betty DeGeneres and Elliott Everett DeGeneres Jr. and married Portia de Rossi.
On Wikipedia the categories read Actresses from Santa Barbara County, California and American lesbian comedians.
Xavier Becerra shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Known for
- Finding Dory, Ellen and Finding Nemo
- Educated at
- Atlanta High School, Grace King High School and Bishop Manogue High School
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016), American Comedy Awards (1991) and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress (2003)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album
- Working from
- 1978
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 93
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. 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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Ellen DeGeneres
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Read from the sky above Metairie at 08:43, Ellen DeGeneres’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Metairie that night
Computed for 30.00°N, at the documented birth time.
At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Metairie was Kornephoros, in Hercules, 78.4° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.
Metairie sits at 30.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −60.0° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux and Toliman were never visible from Metairie on any night.
Sun -20° below the horizon, Moon down and 36% lit at first quarter.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Metairie, United States
- Lives in
- New Orleans · Atlanta
Wikidata records New Orleans and Atlanta as Ellen DeGeneres's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.
What Ellen's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Solar Star 太陽, The Elder 天梁 in 酉
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Wealth
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
T-square onto Neptune · Venus 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.
Score your own chart →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunWeird on purpose, never sorry.
Ellen DeGeneres's Sun was in Aquarius at the documented birth time.
What Aquarius means →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.
What the Rooster means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
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
MoontrineSaturnapplying · 2.2° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 3.1° orb
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 3.6° orb
SunoppositionUranusapplying · 3.6° orb
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 3.7° orb
MoontrineMarsapplying · 4.2° orb
VenussquareNeptuneapplying · 5.0° orb
UranussquareNeptuneapplying · 5.0° orb
SunsquareJupiterseparating · 5.1° orb
MoonsquareMercuryseparating · 5.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ ChironAquarius 16°39′ · House 12
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 20°07′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 10°37′ · House 11
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 14°53′ · House 2
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 27°13′ · House 1
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Moon 0.1°
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.7°
- Eros sextile Ascendant 0.8°
Ellen’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ellen’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 30.0°N, the sky above Metairie stops at −60.0° declination. Same sky, different lives.
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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?
Ellen’s cards
Computed from January 26, 1958. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Tidal ArchitectWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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 comes from, and how it is worked out
Ellen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q483325 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ellen DeGeneres.
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.
- 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.
- What is Ellen DeGeneres's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 16°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
