Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter (born December 11, 1908, Manhattan, United States; died 2012), was an American composer. Carter is best remembered for String Quartet No. 2, String Quartet No. 3 and String Quartet No. 5. Carter's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Music, Grammy Trustees Award and Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.
Elliott Carter’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
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Elliott Carter’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 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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Elliott’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
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What the chart says
Elliott, according to the stars
Core essence
Elliott is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Elliott 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 Elliott wants to be loved
Elliott 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 Elliott even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Elliott creates
How Elliott makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Elliott creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Elliott is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Elliott is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Elliott runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Elliott's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Elliott sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Elliott Carter's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 11, 1908, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeySolved it, and made a joke.
Elliott Carter was born on December 11, 1908, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Elliott Carter's birth date, December 11, 1908, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Elliott’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elliott Carter's date-only chart is Venus trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Elliott Carter combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Elliott’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Elliott Carter, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Cancer or Leo 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.
stableMoontrineSaturn0.0° to 6.3° orb
Elliott’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenustrineNeptune0.0° to 0.8° orb
Elliott’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenussextileUranus0.2° to 1.4° orb
Elliott’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableMercurysquareJupiter0.8° to 2.3° orb
Elliott’s mind grinds against their growth. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.0° orb
Elliott’s need for freedom pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableJupitertrineUranus1.5° orb
Elliott’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenussextileJupiter1.7° to 2.9° orb
Elliott’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb
Elliott’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssextileJupiter3.1° to 3.7° orb
Elliott’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareJupiter4.9° to 5.8° orb
Elliott’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableSunoppositionPluto5.1° to 6.2° orb
Elliott’s core identity pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.4° to 6.0° orb
Elliott’s affections and drive act as one.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Elliott’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.
⚷ ChironAquarius 19°21′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aquarius is read as a wound around fitting in. The tradition has Elliott making a place among outsiders and keeping the door open for the next one.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 11°20′ (moves 0.42° 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. Elliott is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosCapricorn 9°15′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Capricorn is read as desire that respects competence and control. Elliott is read as drawn to people who have built something.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 27°09′ (moves 0.20° 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 Elliott needing variety and enough sleep in equal measure.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Elliott exacting with themselves first.
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 sextile Sun 0.1°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 1.0°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.3°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 2.2°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 2.2°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.6°
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°).
Elliott’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. ♃ Jupiter11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 6 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
4 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Elliott is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
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 Elliott’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Elliott Carter, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Elliott’s cards
Every card is computed from December 11, 1908, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Elliott Carter, 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
Elliott’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q318835, 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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elliott Carter at Wikipedia, 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 Elliott Carter’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Elliott Carter?
- Elliott Carter was a Sagittarius: born December 11, 1908, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Monkey.
- What was Elliott Carter's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 11, 1908 birth.
- What time was Elliott Carter 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 was Elliott Carter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the December 11, 1908 birth date.
- What was Elliott Carter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 11, 1908 birth date.
- Where was Elliott Carter's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 8°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Elliott Carter's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 6 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
