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Elsa Pataky

Elsa Pataky (born July 18, 1976, Madrid, Spain, 09:40), aged 50, is a Spanish model and actress.

Elsa Pataky’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Elsa Pataky’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Diplomat

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional 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

Elsa ranked 597th among girls and 5,869th among boys in 1976, the year of this birth, with 269 American girls and 5 boys on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Elsa’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

8

Soul Urge · achievement

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on E (5) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

3 · 1 · 6 · 7

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Carnelian

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sky blue · Pearl · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1976, 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

Nelson Mandela (1918) and Priyanka Chopra (1982) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
Spain
Languages
French, Italian and Spanish

What the chart says

Elsa, according to the stars

Core essence

Elsa feels the room before entering it. The core of Elsa is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Elsa, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Elsa runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Elsa needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.

How Elsa wants to be loved

Elsa 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 Elsa openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Elsa creates

How Elsa makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Elsa creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Elsa 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Elsa 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: 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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Elsa

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

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 sky

Dedicate a star to Elsa Pataky

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Madrid on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Elsa’s birth-sky starAlgolblue-white · PerseusAlgol, in Perseus. A blue-white star, 89.2° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Algol →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 66.8° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

Read from the sky above Madrid at 09:40, Elsa Pataky’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Madrid that night

Computed for 40.42°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Madrid was Algol, in Perseus, 89.2° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 105 catalog stars were up in all.

From 40.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Madrid at all: they sit past the −49.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun -28° below the horizon, Moon up and 59% lit at last quarter.

The name and the places

Born in
Madrid, Spain
Lives in
Byron Bay

Wikidata records Byron Bay as Elsa Pataky's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Elsa'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 寅.

Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Relationships

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 6/2

Sacral authority · Triple Split definition

Human Design explained →

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.

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Elsa Pataky at a glance

Cancer Sun

Feeds you before you ask.

Elsa Pataky's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.

What Cancer means →

Fire Dragon

Confident before the proof.

Elsa Pataky was born on July 18, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Dragon means →

Life Path 3

Charm with a deadline problem.

Elsa Pataky's birth date, July 18, 1976, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Elsa’s chart

Elsa’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.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 0.5° orbVenus fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 1° orbVenus grinds against Uranus · Square, 1° orbSaturn grinds against Uranus · Square, 2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.4° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.2° orbMercury opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.7° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 3.8° orbSun in Cancer · 25°48′ · house 12☉25°Moon in Aries · 15°27′ · house 9☽15°Mercury in Cancer · 28°58′ · house 12☿28°Venus in Leo · 4°06′ · house 1♀4°Mars in Virgo · 6°54′ · house 2♂6°Jupiter in Taurus · 25°16′ · house 10♃25°Saturn in Leo · 5°06′ · house 1♄5°Uranus in Scorpio · 3°03′ · house 4♅3°Neptune in Sagittarius · 11°31′ · house 5 · retrograde♆℞11°Pluto in Libra · 9°10′ · house 3♇9°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLeo 26°23′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAqr 26°23′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCTau 19°59′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICSco 19°59′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunsextileJupiterseparating · 0.5° orb

    Elsa’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • VenusconjunctionSaturnapplying · 1.0° orb

    Elsa’s affections and discipline act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • VenussquareUranusseparating · 1.0° orb

    Elsa’s affections grind against their need for freedom.

  • SaturnsquareUranusseparating · 2.0° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 2.4° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryseparating · 3.2° orb

  • MercurysextileJupiterseparating · 3.7° orb

  • MarssextileUranusseparating · 3.8° orb

  • MoontrineNeptuneseparating · 3.9° orb

  • MercurysquareUranusapplying · 4.1° orb

  • SaturnsextilePlutoapplying · 4.1° orb

  • MarssquareNeptuneapplying · 4.6° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionVenusapplying · 5.1° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionSaturnapplying · 6.1° orb

  • MoonoppositionPlutoseparating · 6.3° orb

  • SaturntrineNeptuneapplying · 6.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 1°47′ · House 10

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

  • ⚳ CeresCancer 29°44′ · House 12

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

  • ♡ ErosGemini 12°43′ · House 11

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 2°20′ · House 1

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 28°56′ · House 9

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 0.0°
  • Hygiea square Uranus 0.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 0.8°
  • Eros opposition Neptune 1.2°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.8°
  • Chiron square Venus 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Ascendant 2.5°
  • Eros sextile Moon 2.7°
  • Chiron square Mercury 2.8°
  • Hygiea conjunction Saturn 2.8°

Elsa’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☽ Moon7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus7 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Pluto; angular in the first house; 3 major aspects

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 sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.7°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.1°
  • Sun quintile Pluto 1.4°
  • Mars semi-sextile Saturn 1.8°

Elsa’s houses

Elsa’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LeoSun in Cancer, house 12Venus, Saturnself, body, how you arrive
2VirgoMercury in Cancer, house 12Marsmoney, possessions, self-worth
3LibraVenus in Leo, house 1Plutomind, siblings, the local world
4ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 3Uranushome, family, roots
5SagittariusJupiter in Taurus, house 10Neptunecreativity, romance, play
6CapricornSaturn in Leo, house 1emptywork, habits, health
7AquariusUranus in Scorpio, house 4emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 5emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AriesMars in Virgo, house 2Moonbelief, travel, higher learning
10TaurusVenus in Leo, house 1Jupitercareer, reputation, public life
11GeminiMercury in Cancer, house 12emptyfriends, community, the future
12CancerMoon in Aries, house 9Sun, Mercurythe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Elsa’s family here

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

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Elsa’s cards

Computed from July 18, 1976. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Empress

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Diplomat

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Dragon 辰

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

癸

yin Water

巳

Snake

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Elsa’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230123 (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.

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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Elsa Pataky.

Quick answers about Elsa Pataky’s chart

How old is Elsa Pataky?
Elsa Pataky is 50 years old, born July 18, 1976 in Madrid, Spain.
What zodiac sign is Elsa Pataky?
Elsa Pataky is a Cancer: born July 18, 1976, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What is Elsa Pataky's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 18, 1976 birth.
What time was Elsa Pataky born?
09:40 local time in Madrid, Spain, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Elsa Pataky's rising sign?
Leo rising, calculated from the documented 09:40 birth time in Madrid, Spain (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Elsa Pataky?
Elsa Pataky is 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Elsa Pataky's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What is Elsa Pataky's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 1°, in the tenth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Elsa Pataky's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 28°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Elsa Pataky's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Ascendant, Leo; disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects). Moon is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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