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Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman (born April 11, 1941, Newton, United States), aged 85, is an American journalist and writer. Goodman's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award.

Ellen Goodman’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Snake, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Ellen Goodman’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Diplomat

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, 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

3 · 2 · 8 · 9

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.

The vibe

Underneath, Ellen cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Ellen needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Ellen wants to be loved

Ellen wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Ellen creates

How Ellen makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Ellen creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Ellen is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ellen is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Ellen goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Ellen's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Ellen sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Ellen

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ellen

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Ellen

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ellen

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Ellen

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ellen

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ellen Goodman

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Ellen’s birth-night reference starTania Australisdeep red · Ursa MajorTania Australis, in Ursa Major. A deep red star, 87° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Tania Australis →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 39° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Ellen Goodman in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

Runs at it head first.

Ellen Goodman's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 11, 1941, 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 Snake

Wise, cool, hard to read.

Ellen Goodman was born on April 11, 1941, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Ellen Goodman's birth date, April 11, 1941, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.

What stands out in Ellen’s chart

Ellen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Ellen Goodman, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 26° Libra depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Moon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 0.5° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 1.5° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 2° orbSun faces off with Moon · Opposition, 2.5° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 3° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 3.4° orbMars faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 4.3° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 4.6° orbSun in Aries · 21°24′☉21°Moon in Libra · 18°53′☽18°Mercury in Pisces · 29°04′☿29°Venus in Aries · 19°26′♀19°Mars in Aquarius · 6°22′♂6°Jupiter in Taurus · 19°35′♃19°Saturn in Taurus · 14°34′♄14°Uranus in Taurus · 24°11′♅24°Neptune in Virgo · 25°39′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Leo · 2°02′ · retrograde♇℞2°

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.

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Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
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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.

  • stableMoonoppositionVenus0.0° to 7.5° orb

    Ellen’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune1.4° to 1.5° orb

    Ellen’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus1.8° to 2.1° orb

    Ellen’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto2.2° to 3.7° orb

    Ellen’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune2.6° to 4.2° orb

    Ellen’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.

  • stableMarsoppositionPluto4.0° to 4.7° orb

    Ellen’s drive pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus4.5° to 4.7° orb

    Ellen’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn5.0° to 5.1° orb

    Ellen’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableJupitertrineNeptune5.9° to 6.2° orb

    Ellen’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysextileUranusorb from 4.1° to 5.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 5.3° to 19.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 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.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 25°25′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Cancer is read as a wound around belonging and being looked after. Ellen is read as someone who learnt to make a home for others before finding one.

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 7°15′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Ellen caring by building something that lasts for others.

  • ♡ ErosAries 25°44′ (moves 0.76° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Aries is read as desire that moves first and asks later. Ellen is read as drawn to the chase more than the catch.

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 27°22′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    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 LilithTaurus 3°53′ (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.

  • Chiron sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Chiron sextile Uranus 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.5°

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. 1. ♂ Mars6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Mercury; 3 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. 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.

  • Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Saturn 0.5°
  • Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.5°
  • Venus quintile Mars 1.1°
  • Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ellen Goodman, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Ellen’s cards

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The World

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The Steadfast Diplomat

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Western zodiac

Aries

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

壬

yang Water

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Ellen Goodman, 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 Q5364854, 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 Ckcovell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ellen Goodman at Wikipedia.

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 Goodman.

Quick answers about Ellen Goodman’s chart

How old is Ellen Goodman?
Ellen Goodman is 85 years old, born April 11, 1941 in Newton, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ellen Goodman?
Ellen Goodman is an Aries: born April 11, 1941, 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 Snake.
What is Ellen Goodman's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 11, 1941 birth.
What time was Ellen Goodman 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 Goodman's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the April 11, 1941 birth date.
What is Ellen Goodman's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 11, 1941 birth date.
Where is Ellen Goodman's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ellen Goodman's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 1 major aspect). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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