Elmer Rice
Elmer Rice (born September 28, 1892, New York City, United States; died 1967), was an American playwright. Rice's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Elmer Rice’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Water Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Dragon, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Elmer
Elmer Rice’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Diplomat
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) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Elmer in the U.S.?
#1223
US rank in 2025
~131,344
Americans share it since 1880
1918
its peak year
The SSA recorded 592 American boys and 11 girls named Elmer in 1892: 36th among boys and 922nd among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elmer’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
7
Expression · depth and research
6
Soul Urge · being needed
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on E (5) and closes on R (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 9: movement against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elmer’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Sapphire, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🪷 Lotus
Lavender · Blush · Soft pink
The record
What sets Elmer apart
Brigitte Bardot (1934) and Naomi Watts (1968) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Elmer, according to the stars
Core essence
Elmer makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Elmer is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Elmer wants to be loved
Elmer wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Elmer openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Elmer creates
How Elmer makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Elmer 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: Elmer is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Elmer 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 told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Elmer goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Elmer's birth date. Working below.
Where Elmer sits
Six lines
Elmer’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 likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
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 Elmer Rice
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at New York City at 9 p.m. that evening: Deneb of Cygnus, within 11.6° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 93 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City 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 New York City on any night.
The Moon was at first quarter, 48% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 36° down.
How unusual Elmer's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Grand trine
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
Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Elmer Rice's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 28, 1892, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Dragon
Water DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Elmer Rice was born on September 28, 1892, which falls in a Water Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Elmer Rice's birth date, September 28, 1892, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Elmer’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elmer Rice's date-only chart is Mars trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets are in Air signs.
- Elmer Rice combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Diplomat.
Elmer’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° 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
stableMarstrineNeptune0.0° to 0.4° orb
Elmer’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMoonsquareMercury0.1° to 6.5° orb
Elmer’s feelings grind against their mind.
stableVenustrineJupiter0.9° to 2.1° orb
Elmer’s affections flow straight into their growth.
stableMarstrinePluto1.1° to 1.5° orb
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto1.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.0° to 2.8° orb
stableSuntrinePluto3.3° to 4.2° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 6.0° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.7° to 5.4° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune4.7° to 5.7° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto6.1° to 6.2° orb
stableMarssquareUranus6.4° to 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Elmer’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 28°37′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 1°28′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 6°48′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 5°55′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 9°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Sun 0.1°
- Hygiea square Uranus 1.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.9°
- Ceres trine Saturn 2.2°
- Eros conjunction Uranus 2.2°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.3°
- Ceres trine Mercury 3.0°
Elmer’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Saturn; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Elmer’s chart
Grand trine · Sun, Mars, NeptuneThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Sun, Mars, PlutoThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.8°
- Uranus biquintile Pluto 0.8°
- Saturn semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 1.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Uranus 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Saturn 1.6°
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Fellow Libra suns
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- Alfred NobelSwedish chemist and inventor
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Born in Dragon years
- Glenn HowertonAmerican actor
- Paulina GretzkyAmerican pop singer and model
- Marilu HennerAmerican actress (born 1952)
Also born on September 28
- Brigitte Bardot1934
- Naomi Watts1968
- Dita Von Teese1972
- Indra Nooyi1955
- Danny Rimer1970
- Hilary Duff1987
Fellow Yin Water day masters
- Henrik PontoppidanDanish writer, Nobel Laureate
- Gabriela MistralChilean poet, diplomat and educator
- Santiago Ramón y CajalSpanish scientist
Other Libra Dragon charts
- Charles StrossBritish science fiction writer and blogger
- Jack ArnoldAmerican director
- Felix NmechaGerman association football player
- Spencer RattlerAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Tidal Diplomats
- Talbot HamlinAmerican architect, professor, and librarian
- Lowell Allen WilliamsAmerican poet
- Irvin KershnerAmerican film director
- Ty FranckAmerican science fiction writer (1969-)
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Reece JamesEnglish association football player (born 1999)
- Ozan KabakTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- William SalibaFrench footballer (born 2001)
From the journal: Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs · Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection
Elmer’s cards
Computed from September 28, 1892. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Tidal DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
3 · Storyteller♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elmer’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1333006 (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 George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elmer Rice 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 Elmer Rice.
Quick answers about Elmer Rice’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Elmer Rice?
- Elmer Rice was a Libra: born September 28, 1892, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What was Elmer Rice's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 28, 1892 birth.
- What was Elmer Rice's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Elmer Rice's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Elmer Rice's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Elmer Rice's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
