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Ellen Widmann

Ellen Widmann (born December 15, 1894, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland; died 1985), was a Swiss actress. Widmann's honours include Swiss Grand Prix for performing arts / Hans Reinhart Ring.

Ellen Widmann’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Horse, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Ellen Widmann’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Explorer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 4, 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 1894, 759 American girls and 6 boys were registered Ellen — 72nd among girls and 990th 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.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

2

Soul Urge · closeness

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

4 · 2 · 3 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern

Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest

The record

What sets Ellen apart

The Swiss Grand Prix for performing arts / Hans Reinhart Ring came in 1970, when Ellen Widmann was 76.

Ellen Widmann was born to Max Widmann and married Adolf Manz.

Keylor Navas (1986) and Adam Brody (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Swiss Grand Prix for performing arts / Hans Reinhart Ring (1970)
Citizenship
Switzerland
Languages
German
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Ellen, according to the stars

Core essence

Ellen is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Ellen is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

How Ellen wants to be loved

Ellen wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Ellen and watch them fall for you again.

How Ellen creates

How Ellen makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Ellen creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Ellen is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Ellen is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Ellen gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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 draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

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 Widmann

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

Ellen’s birth-night reference starAlmachwarm orange · AndromedaAlmach, in Andromeda. A warm orange star, 84.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Almach →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 59.1° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Biel/Bienne that night

Computed for 47.14°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Biel/Bienne was Almach, in Andromeda, 84.4° up.

Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

From 47.1°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Nothing below −42.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Biel/Bienne on any night.

Sun 42° below the horizon, Moon up and 87% lit at waning gibbous.

The name and the places

Born in
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

The death is recorded at Zurich, Zurich District in 1985.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ellen Widmann: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Ellen's chart is

Chart pattern score

49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets

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.

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Sagittarius Sun

Restless in a good way.

Ellen Widmann's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 15, 1894, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Wood Horse

Open road, open heart.

Ellen Widmann was born on December 15, 1894, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Horse means →

Life Path 4

The one who reads the manual.

Ellen Widmann's birth date, December 15, 1894, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Ellen’s chart

Ellen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 7° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 1.1° orbSun flows with Mars · Trine, 1.3° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 1.9° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 2.3° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.6° orbNeptune fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 3.6° orbMoon grinds against Saturn · Square, 4.1° orbMercury faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 4.7° orbSun in Sagittarius · 23°31′☉23°Moon in Leo · 0°06′☽0°Mercury in Sagittarius · 9°29′☿9°Venus in Sagittarius · 27°05′♀27°Mars in Aries · 24°47′♂24°Jupiter in Cancer · 2°18′ · retrograde♃℞2°Saturn in Scorpio · 4°11′♄4°Uranus in Scorpio · 17°53′♅17°Neptune in Gemini · 14°09′ · retrograde♆℞14°Pluto in Gemini · 10°33′ · retrograde♇℞10°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto0.3° to 1.8° orb

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

  • stableSuntrineMars0.9° to 1.6° orb

    Ellen’s core identity flows straight into their drive.

  • stableVenustrineMars1.8° to 2.8° orb

    Ellen’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn1.8° to 2.0° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto3.6° orb

  • stableMercuryoppositionNeptune3.9° to 5.4° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.5° to 5.9° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 2.7° to 16.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 3.0° to 17.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire5 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 7°39′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 2°03′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 19°08′ (moves 0.58° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 1°10′ (moves 0.42° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 9°07′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 0.4°
  • Hygiea opposition Jupiter 1.1°
  • Eros sextile Uranus 1.2°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 1.4°
  • Chiron sextile Mercury 1.8°
  • Chiron trine Pluto 2.9°

Ellen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury4 pts

    disposes Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars4 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Ellen’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree 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.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury sesquiquadrate Mars 0.3°
  • Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.4°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
  • Mars semi-square Pluto 0.8°

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Ellen’s cards

Computed from December 15, 1894. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Death

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Explorer

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

Life Path

4 · Architect

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ellen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q124826 (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 Widmann at IMDb.

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

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

Quick answers about Ellen Widmann’s chart

What zodiac sign was Ellen Widmann?
Ellen Widmann was a Sagittarius: born December 15, 1894, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What was Ellen Widmann's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 15, 1894 birth.
What was Ellen Widmann's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What was Ellen Widmann's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 7°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Ellen Widmann's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Ellen Widmann's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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