Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born April 30, 1939, Miami, United States), aged 87, is an American composer. Zwilich is best known for Symphony No. 1, Images (Suite in five movements) and Millennium Fantasy. Zwilich's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Florida Artists Hall of Fame and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s zodiac sign is Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Rabbit, with 
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Lightkeeper
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, 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
11 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
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 steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Ellen is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
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 hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Ellen creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Ellen is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Ellen is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Ellen does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Ellen's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ellen sits
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich at a glance
Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 30, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Rabbit
Earth RabbitKeeps the peace, keeps the plan.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was born on April 30, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's birth date, April 30, 1939, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Ellen’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Lightkeeper.
Ellen’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Virgo or 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.
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.
stableMarstrineNeptune0.0° to 0.3° orb
Ellen’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupitertrinePluto1.4° to 1.6° orb
Ellen’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarssquareSaturn2.5° to 2.8° orb
Ellen’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMarstrineUranus3.2° to 3.6° orb
Ellen’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranustrineNeptune3.5° orb
Ellen’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.9° to 6.0° orb
Ellen’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.7° orb
Ellen’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.9° to 7.1° orb
Ellen’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
possibleMoonoppositionVenusorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 3.8° to 17.4° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed2 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 5°58′ (moves 0.07° 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.
⚳ CeresGemini 14°48′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Ellen feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosAries 10°48′ (moves 0.66° 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.
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°43′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Capricorn is read as health as discipline and a long game. Ellen is read as someone who keeps going past the point others stop, for better and worse.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius is read as the outsider who chose it. The modern reading has Ellen at odds with the group on principle and rarely lonely about it.
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 square Venus 0.1°
- Hygiea square Mercury 0.1°
- Eros conjunction Mercury 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 1.9°
- Ceres sextile Mercury 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Uranus 2.8°
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 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. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
disposes Mercury, Venus, Saturn; 3 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune4 pts
disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ellen is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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.
Grand trine · Mars, Uranus, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
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.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Born the same day as Ellen
Edward Kleban was born on April 30, 1939 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.
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Ellen’s cards
Every card is computed from April 30, 1939, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, 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 Q457425, 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.
The same Ellen Taaffe Zwilich at Wikipedia, zwilich.com, IMDb 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 Taaffe Zwilich’s chart
- How old is Ellen Taaffe Zwilich?
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is 87 years old, born April 30, 1939 in Miami, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ellen Taaffe Zwilich?
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is a Taurus: born April 30, 1939, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Rabbit.
- What is Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 30, 1939 birth.
- What time was Ellen Taaffe Zwilich 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 Taaffe Zwilich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the April 30, 1939 birth date.
- What is Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 30, 1939 birth date.
- Where is Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 14°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Uranus; 1 major aspect). Mars is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
