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Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Lanchester (born October 28, 1902, Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham, United Kingdom; died 1986), was a British-American actress. Lanchester's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.

Elsa Lanchester’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Elsa Lanchester’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Architect

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Elsa in the U.S.?

#1104

US rank in 2025

~30,731

Americans share it since 1880

2014

its peak year

The SSA recorded 91 American girls named Elsa in 1902: 326th for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Elsa’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

7

Expression · depth and research

8

Soul Urge · achievement

8

Personality · capable, in charge

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

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Elsa’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Opal, Red Coral, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily

Amber · Crimson · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1902, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Elsa apart

The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture came in 1958, when Elsa Lanchester was 56.

Elsa Lanchester was 23 when the work began in 1925.

The record gives pneumonia as the cause, and Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery as the resting place.

On the family side, Elsa Lanchester was born to Edith Lanchester and married Charles Laughton.

Wikipedia files Elsa Lanchester under English silent film actresses, Actresses from Kent and Actors from the London Borough of Lewisham.

Bill Gates (1955) and Julia Roberts (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture (1958)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Working from
1925
Cause of death
pneumonia
Buried at
Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
50

What the chart says

Elsa, according to the stars

Core essence

Elsa does not do surface. The core of Elsa is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Elsa is earned slowly and never given lightly.

How Elsa wants to be loved

Elsa wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Elsa gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Elsa creates

How Elsa makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Elsa builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Elsa is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Elsa 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: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Elsa channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.

Computed from Elsa's birth date. Working below.

Where Elsa sits

Six lines

Elsa’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Elsa

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Elsa

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

PrivateExpressive
Elsa

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Elsa

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Elsa

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Elsa

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Elsa Lanchester

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Elsa’s birth-night reference starCaphyellow-white · CassiopeiaCaph, in Cassiopeia. A yellow-white star, 80.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Caph →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 36.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham that night

Computed for 51.45°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham at 9 p.m. that evening: Caph of Cassiopeia, within 9.1° of the exact zenith.

Of the 98 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.

Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham sits at 51.4°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 6% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 39° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham, United Kingdom

The death is recorded at Woodland Hills, Los Angeles in 1986.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Elsa Lanchester: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Elsa'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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The quick version

Scorpio Sun

All in or nowhere near.

Elsa Lanchester's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 28, 1902, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Scorpio means →

Water Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Elsa Lanchester was born on October 28, 1902, which falls in a Water Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 5

Can't sit still. Won't try.

Elsa Lanchester's birth date, October 28, 1902, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Elsa’s chart

Elsa’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 7° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.1° orbSun flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.5° orbUranus faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 0.6° orbMercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.7° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 1.5° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 2.6° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.3° orbSun in Scorpio · 4°08′☉4°Moon in Libra · 0°57′☽0°Mercury in Libra · 18°44′☿18°Venus in Libra · 26°15′♀26°Mars in Virgo · 2°37′♂2°Jupiter in Aquarius · 8°21′♃8°Saturn in Capricorn · 22°01′♄22°Uranus in Sagittarius · 18°50′♅18°Neptune in Cancer · 3°36′ · retrograde♆℞3°Pluto in Gemini · 19°27′ · retrograde♇℞19°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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

Placements

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

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSuntrineNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Elsa’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 0.1° orb

    Elsa’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableUranusoppositionPluto0.6° orb

    Elsa’s need for freedom pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.7° orb

  • stableMarssextileNeptune0.7° to 1.3° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars1.3° to 1.7° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn3.2° to 3.3° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn3.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter3.8° to 4.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 9.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 1.0° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 2.4° to 15.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 10°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresLeo 17°20′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 5°20′ (moves 0.94° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 3°27′ (moves 0.15° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 29°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea square Mars 0.8°
  • Eros sextile Sun 1.2°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 1.4°
  • Ceres trine Uranus 1.5°
  • Eros sextile Neptune 1.7°
  • Ceres sextile Pluto 2.1°
  • Eros conjunction Mars 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.9°

Elsa’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Elsa’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.

  • Sun semi-square Uranus 0.3°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.3°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 1.1°
  • Mars quintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Jupiter biquintile Neptune 1.3°

Elsa’s family here

One relative of Elsa Lanchester also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Elsa’s cards

Computed from October 28, 1902. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Temperance

AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Architect

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

壬

yang Water

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

戌

Dog

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Elsa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q233009 (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 Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Elsa Lanchester 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 Elsa Lanchester.

Quick answers about Elsa Lanchester’s chart

What zodiac sign was Elsa Lanchester?
Elsa Lanchester was a Scorpio: born October 28, 1902, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
What was Elsa Lanchester's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 28, 1902 birth.
What was Elsa Lanchester's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What was Elsa Lanchester's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Elsa Lanchester's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 29°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Elsa Lanchester's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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