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Elliott Smith

Elliott Smith (born Steven Paul Smith; August 6, 1969, Omaha, United States, 00:59; died 2003), was an American musician. Best-known releases include Either/Or, Roman Candle and Elliott Smith.

Elliott Smith’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Earth Rooster, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Elliott Smith’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Guardian

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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 232 American boys named Elliott in 1969: 511th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Elliott’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Steven Paul Smith, not the name they published under.

33

Expression · lifting other people

5

Soul Urge · freedom

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

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

3 · 5 · 7 · 8

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Coral · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1969, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Elliott apart

Andy Warhol (1928) and Alexander Fleming (1881) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States
Languages
English

What the chart says

Elliott, according to the stars

Core essence

Elliott is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Elliott is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Elliott is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Elliott needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Elliott wants to be loved

Elliott wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Elliott gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Elliott creates

How Elliott makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Elliott creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Elliott is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Elliott 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: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Elliott has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Elliott

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Elliott

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Elliott

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Elliott

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Elliott

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Elliott

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

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Elliott’s birth-sky starSadryellow-white · CygnusSadr, in Cygnus. A yellow-white star, 87.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Sadr →The warmest lightMirfakyellow-white · PerseusMirfak, in Perseus. A yellow-white star, 23.7° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Mirfak →

Read from the sky above Omaha at 00:59, Elliott Smith’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Omaha that night

Computed for 41.26°N, at the documented birth time.

Overhead at Omaha at the birth hour: Sadr of Cygnus, within 2.6° of the exact zenith.

Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 91 catalog stars above the horizon.

Omaha sits at 41.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.7° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 39% lit at last quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 31° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Steven Paul Smith
Known as
Elliott Smith
Born in
Omaha, United States

The death is recorded at Echo Park, Los Angeles in 2003.

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What Elliott's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

No major star sits in the Life Palace, which the tradition calls 空宮, an empty palace. The branch is 未.

Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Self

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Manifesting Generator, profile 1/3

Sacral authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Mercury · A leaning bowl

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.

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Elliott Smith in 15 seconds

Leo Sun

Generous with the spotlight, mostly.

Elliott Smith's Sun was in Leo at the documented birth time.

What Leo means →

Earth Rooster

Prepared for everything, twice.

Elliott Smith was born on August 6, 1969, which falls in a Earth Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rooster means →

Life Path 3

Makes feelings into something.

Elliott Smith's birth date, August 6, 1969, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Elliott’s chart

Elliott’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus grinds against Jupiter · Square, 0.1° orbMoon faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.1° orbMoon grinds against Mercury · Square, 1.3° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.1° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 3.6° orbSun in Leo · 13°36′ · house 4☉13°Moon in Taurus · 27°02′ · house 1☽27°Mercury in Leo · 28°21′ · house 4☿28°Venus in Cancer · 3°26′ · house 3♀3°Mars in Sagittarius · 7°01′ · house 8♂7°Jupiter in Libra · 3°22′ · house 6♃3°Saturn in Taurus · 8°45′ · house 1♄8°Uranus in Libra · 1°23′ · house 6♅1°Neptune in Scorpio · 25°56′ · house 7 · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Virgo · 23°27′ · house 5♇23°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCTau 29°14′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCSco 29°14′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAqr 6°02′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLeo 6°02′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • VenussquareJupiterseparating · 0.1° orb

    Elliott’s affections grind against their growth.

  • MoonoppositionNeptuneseparating · 1.1° orb

    Elliott’s feelings pull against their imagination from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • MoonsquareMercuryapplying · 1.3° orb

    Elliott’s feelings grind against their mind.

  • JupiterconjunctionUranusseparating · 2.0° orb

  • VenussquareUranusseparating · 2.1° orb

  • MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 2.4° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.5° orb

  • MoontrinePlutoseparating · 3.6° orb

  • MarssextileJupiterseparating · 3.7° orb

  • MoontrineUranusapplying · 4.3° orb

  • SunsquareSaturnseparating · 4.8° orb

  • MoontrineJupiterapplying · 6.3° orb

  • SuntrineMarsseparating · 6.6° orb

  • UranusconjunctionPlutoseparating · 7.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 6°34′ · House 12

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 2°32′ · House 10

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

  • ♡ ErosCancer 5°41′ · House 3

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

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 6°02′ · House 2

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 16°11′ · House 3

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Mars 0.5°
  • Ceres trine Jupiter 0.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Mars 1.0°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.2°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 2.2°
  • Eros square Jupiter 2.3°
  • Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.7°

Elliott’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus12 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon8 pts

    disposes Venus; angular in the first house; 5 major aspects

Configurations in Elliott’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Moon, Neptune, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.6°
  • Saturn biquintile Uranus 1.4°
  • Mars quincunx Saturn 1.7°

Elliott’s houses

Elliott’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1TaurusVenus in Cancer, house 3Moon, Saturnself, body, how you arrive
2GeminiMercury in Leo, house 4emptymoney, possessions, self-worth
3CancerMoon in Taurus, house 1Venusmind, siblings, the local world
4LeoSun in Leo, house 4Sun, Mercuryhome, family, roots
5VirgoMercury in Leo, house 4Plutocreativity, romance, play
6LibraVenus in Cancer, house 3Jupiter, Uranuswork, habits, health
7ScorpioPluto in Virgo, house 5Neptunepartnership, marriage, open rivals
8SagittariusJupiter in Libra, house 6Marsshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9CapricornSaturn in Taurus, house 1emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10AquariusUranus in Libra, house 6emptycareer, reputation, public life
11PiscesNeptune in Scorpio, house 7emptyfriends, community, the future
12AriesMars in Sagittarius, house 8emptythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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Elliott’s cards

Computed from August 6, 1969. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rooster 酉

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

壬

yang Water

子

Rat

Water

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Elliott’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q210428 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by llaurens, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Elliott Smith at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

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Quick answers about Elliott Smith’s chart

What zodiac sign was Elliott Smith?
Elliott Smith was a Leo: born August 6, 1969, which puts the Sun in Leo at the documented birth time.
What was Elliott Smith's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rooster, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 6, 1969 birth.
What time was Elliott Smith born?
00:59 local time in Omaha, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What was Elliott Smith's rising sign?
Taurus rising, calculated from the documented 00:59 birth time in Omaha, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What was Elliott Smith's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Elliott Smith's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 6°, in the twelfth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Elliott Smith's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 16°, in the third house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Elliott Smith's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Moon sign, Taurus; rules the Ascendant, Taurus; disposes Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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