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, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Water Dragon, with 
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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
US Social Security Administration public records
Elmer’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Elmer sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Dragon readings emphasise confidence, luck and scale: the only mythical animal in the cycle, associated with ambition and with attention that arrives whether or not it was sought. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dragon as the sign of large gestures. The corresponding caution in the tradition is arrogance, and a difficulty with tasks too small to be seen.
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. Traditional Life Path 3 readings associate the number with expression: words, humour, performance and making things. Numerologists describe it as the path of the communicator, sociable and quick. The corresponding tension is dispersal, with the caution that many things begun and few finished is the classical pattern the tradition warns this number about.
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
No documented birth time exists for Elmer Rice, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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.
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
Elmer’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptuneconjunctionPluto1.5° orb
Elmer’s imagination and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionSaturn2.0° to 2.8° orb
Elmer’s core identity and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSuntrinePluto3.3° to 4.2° orb
Elmer’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 6.0° orb
Elmer’s mind and discipline act as one.
stableSuntrineMars4.7° to 5.4° orb
Elmer’s core identity flows straight into their drive.
stableSuntrineNeptune4.7° to 5.7° orb
Elmer’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturntrinePluto6.1° to 6.2° orb
Elmer’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarssquareUranus6.4° to 6.6° orb
Elmer’s drive grinds against their need for freedom. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
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
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.
⚷ ChironLeo 28°37′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Elmer performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ Ceres ℞Gemini 1°28′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Gemini is read as nurture through talk and attention. The tradition has Elmer feeding people with information and feeling fed by conversation.
♡ ErosScorpio 6°48′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Elmer is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ HygieaLeo 5°55′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Elmer at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 9°08′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Elmer is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Elmer’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. ☿ 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
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Elmer is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Elmer’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Elmer Rice, 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
Elmer’s cards
Every card is computed from September 28, 1892, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Elmer Rice, 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
Elmer’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1333006, 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 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. 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.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Water Dragon.
- 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 time was Elmer Rice 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 Elmer Rice's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology from the September 28, 1892 birth date.
- What was Elmer Rice's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 28°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 28, 1892 birth date.
- 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.
