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, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Rabbit, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Ellen
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
In 1939, 3,005 American girls and 14 boys were registered Ellen — 80th among girls and 1,903rd 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.
6
Expression · taking responsibility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
7
Personality · composed, private
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
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
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 1939, 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
Symphony No. 4, The Gardens, Peanuts® gallery and Millennium Fantasy. That is the work the name is attached to.
The schooling ran through Juilliard School and Florida State University.
On Wikipedia the categories read Musicians from Miami, Florida State University faculty and American women classical composers.
Edward Kleban 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
- Symphony No. 4, The Gardens, Peanuts® gallery and Millennium Fantasy
- Educated at
- Juilliard School and Florida State University
- Instruments
- violin
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1980) and Pulitzer Prize for Music (1983)
- Citizenship
- United States
- Wikipedia editions
- 15
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. Working below.
Where Ellen sits
Six lines
Ellen’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Miami on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Miami that night
Computed for 25.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Miami was Algieba, in Leo, 84.2° up.
Of the 105 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
Miami sits at 25.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 15° below the horizon, Moon up and 92% lit at waxing gibbous.
How unusual Ellen's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
Grand trine · No Air planets · 1 planet 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. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Taurus means →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.
What the Rabbit means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableUranustrineNeptune3.5° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.9° to 6.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus6.5° to 6.7° orb
stableJupiteroppositionNeptune6.9° to 7.1° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironCancer 5°58′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 14°48′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 10°48′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 12°43′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 14°33′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Ellen’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ellen’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus quintile Pluto 0.0°
Born the same day as Ellen
Edward Kleban was born on April 30, 1939 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: 105 catalog stars stood above Miami, at 25.8°N that night, with Algieba nearest the zenith. Same sky, different lives.
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- Stephen Albert1941
- Hugh Masekela1939
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- John Corigliano1938
- Lewis Spratlan1940
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From the journal: Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say · Your animal plus your element: the 60-year cycle
Ellen’s cards
Computed from April 30, 1939. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Radiant LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Rabbit 卯Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ellen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q457425 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. 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, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
The same Ellen Taaffe Zwilich at Wikipedia, zwilich.com, IMDb 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 Taaffe Zwilich.
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.
- 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 is Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
