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, Chinese zodiac is Fire Tiger, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Tiger, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Ellie
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
In 1986, 58 American girls were registered Ellie — 1,917th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ellie’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Elena Jane Goulding, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
8
Soul Urge · achievement
22
Personality · quietly formidable
The name opens on E (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ellie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Ellie apart
LeBron James (1984) and Tiger Woods (1975) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Ellie sits
Six lines
Ellie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
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 Ellie Goulding
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hereford 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 Hereford that night
Computed for 52.06°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Hereford at 9 p.m. that evening: Mirfak of Perseus, within 2.3° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.
Hereford sits at 52.1°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −37.9° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hereford on any night.
Sun 43° below the horizon, Moon down and 0% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Elena Jane Goulding
- Known as
- Ellie Goulding
- Born in
- Hereford, United Kingdom
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ellie Goulding: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ellie's chart is
Chart pattern score
62 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Capricorn · A bowl chart · No Air 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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Capricorn means →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.
What the Tiger means →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.
What Life Path 3 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 21° to 7° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
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
stableSunconjunctionNeptune2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 5.6° orb
stableVenustrineJupiter5.1° to 5.9° orb
stableMarsconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 6.7° orb
stableJupitersquareUranus6.2° to 6.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury7.4° to 7.9° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 17°27′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 4°30′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 9°53′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 23°07′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Ellie’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Ellie’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
More people like Ellie
Other actors
- Josh Peck1986
- Ronda Rousey1987
- Lo Bosworth1986
- Deena Nicole Cortese1987
- Penn Badgley1986
- Henry Golding1987
Born in United Kingdom
- Florence WelchBritish singer
- Katie LeungScottish actress
- Mischa BartonBritish-American actress and model
- Rose LeslieScottish actress (born 1987)
- Richard MaddenScottish actor
- FKA twigsEnglish singer and dancer
More charts like Ellie’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Jordin SparksAmerican singer
- Daryl SabaraAmerican actor (born 1992)
- Maggie SmithEnglish actress
Born in Tiger years
- Frank FinlayBritish actor
- Elizabeth BerridgeAmerican actor
- Wendell CoreyAmerican actor
Also born on December 30
- LeBron James1984
- Tiger Woods1975
- Tu Youyou1930
- V1995
- Bill English1961
- Kristin Kreuk1982
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Ryan O'NealAmerican actor
- Chord OverstreetAmerican actor, singer and musician
- Cassie RandolphAmerican television personality and Bachelor contestant
Other Capricorn Tiger charts
- Barton MacLaneactor, playwright, screenwriter
- Walther BotheGerman physicist, mathematician and chemist
- Stefan Helldirector at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany
- Emily Greene BalchAmerican economist and writer
Other Steadfast Diplomats
- Spencer RattlerAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Pete WernerAmerican football linebacker
- Chauncey GolstonAmerican football player
- Dylan CookAmerican football player
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Peter FondaAmerican actor and filmmaker
- Matthew MacfadyenEnglish actor
- Henry KingAmerican film director
From the journal: 2027, Year of the Goat: what it means for every sign · Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal
Ellie’s cards
Computed from December 30, 1986. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The Hanged ManAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Tiger 寅Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ellie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q31164 (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.
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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is Ellie Goulding's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
