Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding (born Elena Jane Goulding; December 30, 1986, Hereford, United Kingdom), aged 39, is an English singer and songwriter. Goulding is best known for Love Me Like You Do, Lights and Burn.
Ellie Goulding’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Tiger, with 
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Ellie Goulding’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 Ellie in the U.S.?
#24
US rank in 2025
~106,857
Americans share it since 1880
2024
its peak year
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Ellie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 4
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Turquoise, Blue Sapphire, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🤍 Camellia · 🌺 Poppy
Frost white · Ivory · Flame orange
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Ellie, according to the stars
Core essence
Ellie is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Ellie is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
How Ellie wants to be loved
Ellie 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 Ellie even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Ellie creates
How Ellie makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Ellie creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Ellie is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ellie 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: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Ellie slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Ellie's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Ellie Goulding's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of December 30, 1986, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Capricorn readings associate the sign with ambition, structure and the long game: building slowly toward a position that will hold. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn, and read it for discipline and reserve. The corresponding tension is severity, described in the tradition as a seriousness that can be turned on the self as hard as on the work.
Fire Tiger
Fire TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Ellie Goulding was born on December 30, 1986, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Ellie Goulding's birth date, December 30, 1986, 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 Ellie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ellie Goulding's date-only chart is Mars square Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ellie Goulding combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Ellie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Ellie Goulding, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 21° to 7° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
stableMarssquareUranus0.0° to 0.5° orb
Ellie’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsextilePluto0.4° to 1.4° orb
Ellie’s core identity opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenustrineMars0.8° to 1.0° orb
Ellie’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableJupitersquareSaturn2.0° to 2.1° orb
Ellie’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.4° to 3.4° orb
Ellie’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
Ellie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 5.6° orb
Ellie’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableVenustrineJupiter5.1° to 5.9° orb
Ellie’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 6.7° orb
Ellie’s drive and growth act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareUranus6.2° to 6.3° orb
Ellie’s growth grinds against their need for freedom. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunconjunctionMercury7.4° to 7.9° orb
Ellie’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoonconjunctionMercuryorb from 0.0° to 8.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
Ellie’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 17°27′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Ellie turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 4°30′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. Ellie is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosPisces 9°53′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Ellie is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 23°07′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Gemini is read as health that lives in the nerves and the mind. The tradition has Ellie needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Ellie guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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 Jupiter 0.2°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 0.4°
- Eros trine Pluto 0.5°
- Hygiea square Mars 0.6°
- Eros sextile Sun 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 1.4°
- Chiron opposition Saturn 2.2°
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°).
Ellie’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. ♄ Saturn7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter; 3 major aspects
A Saturn-led chart is read as structure and endurance leading: Ellie is read as someone who builds slowly and keeps what is built.
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 Ellie’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.
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, 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.
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.
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Uranus 0.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.7°
- Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.9°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ellie Goulding, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Ellie’s cards
Every card is computed from December 30, 1986, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Ellie Goulding, 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
Ellie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q31164, 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 PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY Official website, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ellie Goulding at Wikipedia, elliegoulding.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ellie Goulding.
Quick answers about Ellie Goulding’s chart
- How old is Ellie Goulding?
- Ellie Goulding is 39 years old, born December 30, 1986 in Hereford, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Ellie Goulding?
- Ellie Goulding is a Capricorn: born December 30, 1986, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Tiger.
- What is Ellie Goulding's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 30, 1986 birth.
- What time was Ellie Goulding 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.
- How tall is Ellie Goulding?
- Ellie Goulding is 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Ellie Goulding's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the December 30, 1986 birth date.
- What is Ellie Goulding's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 30, 1986 birth date.
- Where is Ellie Goulding's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ellie Goulding's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Jupiter is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
