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Ellen Pompeo

Ellen Pompeo (born November 10, 1969, Everett, United States, 13:24), aged 57, is an American actress. Notable films include Grey's Anatomy, Catch Me If You Can and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Pompeo's honours include Disney Legends, Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Ellen Pompeo’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rooster, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Ellen Pompeo’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental 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

The SSA recorded 1,895 American girls named Ellen in 1969: 169th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ellen’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

9

Soul Urge · meaning

2

Personality · warm, careful

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

1 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

The record

What sets Ellen apart

The Satellite Award for Best Cast, Television Series came in 2006, when Ellen Pompeo was 37.

Ellen Pompeo was taught at Everett High School.

Ellen Pompeo was 26 when the work began in 1995.

On the family side, Ellen Pompeo was married Chris Ivery and raised one child.

Brittany Murphy (1977) and João Félix (1999) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Everett High School
Awards
Disney Legends (2022), Satellite Award for Best Actress, Television Series Drama (2007) and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2007)
Working from
1995
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Ellen, according to the stars

Core essence

Ellen does not do surface. The core of Ellen is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Ellen is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, Ellen feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Ellen needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

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 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 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 Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Ellen is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Ellen leads without needing to do it alone.

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. Working below.

Where Ellen sits

Six lines

Ellen’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Ellen

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ellen

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Ellen

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ellen

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Ellen

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ellen

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Read from the sky above Everett at 13:24, Ellen Pompeo’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Everett that night

Computed for 42.41°N, at the documented birth time.

Rastaban stood nearest the zenith over Everett at the birth hour, 78.8° above the horizon in Draco.

Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Everett sits at 42.4°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −47.6° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Everett on any night.

Sun -25° below the horizon, Moon up and 1% lit at new moon.

What Ellen's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Purple Star 紫微, The Minister 天相 in 辰

Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 6/2

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

76 / 100 · Rare

5-planet stellium in Scorpio · T-square onto Mars · 2 planets at a critical degree

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.

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If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

Trusts slowly. Forgets nothing.

Ellen Pompeo's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Ellen Pompeo was born on November 10, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 1

Leads because nobody else moved.

Ellen Pompeo's birth date, November 10, 1969, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Ellen’s chart

Ellen’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.1° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 1.3° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.3° orbMoon opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.6° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.7° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.3° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 4.2° orbVenus faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 4.4° orbSun in Scorpio · 18°12′ · house 9☉18°Moon in Scorpio · 29°21′ · house 9☽29°Mercury in Scorpio · 14°52′ · house 9☿14°Venus in Scorpio · 0°05′ · house 9♀0°Mars in Aquarius · 4°19′ · house 12♂4°Jupiter in Libra · 23°13′ · house 8♃23°Saturn in Taurus · 4°27′ · house 3 · retrograde♄℞4°Uranus in Libra · 7°01′ · house 8♅7°Neptune in Scorpio · 28°03′ · house 9♆28°Pluto in Virgo · 26°43′ · house 7♇26°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCPsc 3°07′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCVir 3°07′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSgr 15°53′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICGem 15°53′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantPisces
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MarssquareSaturnapplying · 0.1° orb

    Ellen’s drive grinds against their discipline.

  • MoonconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 1.3° orb

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

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 1.3° orb

    Ellen’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 2.6° orb

  • MarstrineUranusapplying · 2.7° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 3.3° orb

  • VenussquareMarsapplying · 4.2° orb

  • VenusoppositionSaturnapplying · 4.4° orb

  • MoonsextileMarsapplying · 5.0° orb

  • VenusconjunctionJupiterseparating · 6.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

Ellen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 2°52′ · House 2

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

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 5°08′ · House 12

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 4°09′ · House 8

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 10°14′ · House 4

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 26°56′ · House 5

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros trine Mars 0.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.2°
  • Ceres square Saturn 0.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Mars 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Neptune 1.1°
  • Chiron sextile Mars 1.5°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Moon 2.4°
  • Eros conjunction Uranus 2.9°

Ellen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto14 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars7 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; traditionally rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Ellen’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mars · Venus, Saturn, MarsAn 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.

  • Moon semi-sextile Venus 0.7°

Ellen’s houses

Ellen’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 9emptyself, body, how you arrive
2AriesMars in Aquarius, house 12emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3TaurusVenus in Scorpio, house 9Saturnmind, siblings, the local world
4GeminiMercury in Scorpio, house 9emptyhome, family, roots
5CancerMoon in Scorpio, house 9emptycreativity, romance, play
6LeoSun in Scorpio, house 9emptywork, habits, health
7VirgoMercury in Scorpio, house 9Plutopartnership, marriage, open rivals
8LibraVenus in Scorpio, house 9Jupiter, Uranusshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 7Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Neptunebelief, travel, higher learning
10SagittariusJupiter in Libra, house 8emptycareer, reputation, public life
11CapricornSaturn in Taurus, house 3emptyfriends, community, the future
12AquariusUranus in Libra, house 8Marsthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Ellen’s family here

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Ellen’s cards

Computed from November 10, 1969. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ellen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q215849 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 lukeford.net, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Ellen Pompeo.

Quick answers about Ellen Pompeo’s chart

How old is Ellen Pompeo?
Ellen Pompeo is 57 years old, born November 10, 1969 in Everett, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ellen Pompeo?
Ellen Pompeo is a Scorpio: born November 10, 1969, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What is Ellen Pompeo's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 10, 1969 birth.
What time was Ellen Pompeo born?
13:24 local time in Everett, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Ellen Pompeo's rising sign?
Pisces rising, calculated from the documented 13:24 birth time in Everett, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Ellen Pompeo's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is Ellen Pompeo's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 2°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ellen Pompeo's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 26°, in the fifth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ellen Pompeo's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (14 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; rules the Moon sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Neptune; angular in the seventh house; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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