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, Chinese zodiac was Earth Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Elliott
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.
How common is the name Elliott in the U.S.?
#160
US rank in 2025
~70,719
Americans share it since 1880
2019
its peak year
The SSA recorded 46 American boys named Elliott in 1908: 332nd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elliott’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
8
Soul Urge · achievement
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on E (5) and closes on T (2).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elliott’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
The record
What sets Elliott apart
Naguib Mahfouz (1911) and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Elliott sits
Six lines
Elliott’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
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 Elliott Carter
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Manhattan 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 Manhattan that night
Computed for 40.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Manhattan at 9 p.m. that evening: Almach of Andromeda, within 5.2° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Manhattan sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Manhattan on any night.
Sun 50° below the horizon, Moon up and 83% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Elliott's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
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
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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Monkey means →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.
What Life Path 5 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 9° Cancer or Leo 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
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
stableUranusoppositionNeptune1.0° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus1.5° orb
stableVenussextileJupiter1.7° to 2.9° orb
stableJupitersextileNeptune2.4° to 2.5° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter3.1° to 3.7° orb
stableSunsquareJupiter4.9° to 5.8° orb
stableSunoppositionPluto5.1° to 6.2° orb
stableVenusconjunctionMars5.4° to 6.0° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 19°21′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 11°20′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 9°15′ (moves 0.59° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 27°09′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 8°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Elliott’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Elliott’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.6°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 1.2°
- Mercury semi-sextile Mars 1.8°
More people like Elliott
Other composers
- Virgil Thomson1896
- Alwin Nikolais1910
- Benny Carter1907
- Morton Gould1913
- Quinto Maganini1897
- Walter Scharf1910
Born in United States
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- Alfred HersheyAmerican chemist
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Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Boye MafeAmerican football defensive end
- Jordan BattleAmerican football player (born 2000)
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Born in Monkey years
- Ashley JuddAmerican actress
- April BowlbyAmerican actress
- Andy GarciaAmerican actor and director (born 1956)
Also born on December 11
- Naguib Mahfouz1911
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1918
- Robert Koch1843
- Emmanuelle Charpentier1968
- Colleen Hoover1979
- Alexa Demie1990
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- David BlaineAmerican illusionist and extreme performer
- Jason BehrAmerican actor
- Jonathan BaileyEnglish actor
Other Sagittarius Monkey charts
- Steven BauerEuro-Indigenous Cuban-American character actor, producer, musician, and entrepreneur
- Jessie Royce LandisAmerican actress
- Ellen BurstynAmerican actress
- T. K. CarterAmerican actor and comedian
Other Gilded Explorers
- Mena SuvariAmerican actress, fashion designer, model (born 1979)
- Scott SpeedmanBritish-Canadian film and television actor
- Sean SpicerAmerican political strategist and former White House Press Secretary and Communications Director for President Donald Trump
- Sigourney WeaverAmerican actress (born 1949)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Tony GoldwynAmerican actor and director (born 1960)
- Yolanda HadidAmerican television personality and former model
- Jillian HarrisCanadian television presenter
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Elliott’s cards
Computed from December 11, 1908. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elliott’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q318835 (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.
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The same Elliott Carter at Wikipedia, 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 Elliott Carter.
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.
- 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 was Elliott Carter's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Elliott Carter's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 19°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
