Ted Elliott
Ted Elliott (born July 4, 1961, Santa Ana, United States), aged 65, is an American screenwriter (born 1961). Elliott's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Nebula Award for Best Script and Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay.
Ted Elliott’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 1 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 1 in numerology.Your match with Ted
Ted Elliott’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Strategist
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Ted in the U.S.?
#3229
US rank in 2025
~75,424
Americans share it since 1880
1958
its peak year
In 1961, 1,683 American boys and 5 girls were registered Ted — 183rd among boys and 7,430th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ted’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
7
Soul Urge · understanding
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on T (2) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 2, which numerology reads as tact.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ted’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Ruby, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Camellia
Sky blue · Pearl · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1961, 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 Ted apart
The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation came in 1993, when Ted Elliott was 32.
On Wikipedia the categories read DreamWorks Animation people, Walt Disney Animation Studios people and Animation screenwriters.
M. M. Keeravani and Margaret Edson shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1993)
- Nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 15
What the chart says
Ted, according to the stars
Core essence
Ted feels the room before entering it. The core of Ted 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 Ted, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Ted 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 Ted needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Ted wants to be loved
Ted wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Ted is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Ted creates
How Ted makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Ted creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Ted is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Ted is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Ted leads without needing to do it alone.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Ted 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 Ted's birth date. Working below.
Where Ted sits
Six lines
Ted’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
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 likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
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 Ted Elliott
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Santa Ana 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 Santa Ana that night
Computed for 33.74°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Izar stood nearest the zenith over Santa Ana at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.6° above the horizon in Boötes.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 82 catalog stars above the horizon.
Santa Ana sits at 33.7°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 −56.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at last quarter, 50% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 10° down.
How unusual Ted'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.
Score your own chart →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunRemembers what you said in March.
Ted Elliott's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 4, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Ted Elliott was born on July 4, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 1
Life Path 1Leads because nobody else moved.
Ted Elliott's birth date, July 4, 1961, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 1 means →What stands out in Ted’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ted Elliott's date-only chart is Venus trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.
- Ted Elliott combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Strategist.
Ted’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Aries 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
stableVenustrineSaturn0.0° to 0.7° orb
Ted’s affections flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextileMars1.0° to 1.9° orb
Ted’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto2.4° to 3.0° orb
Ted’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto2.5° orb
stableSuntrineNeptune3.4° to 4.4° orb
stableVenussquareUranus3.5° to 4.5° orb
stableJupitersquareNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
stableMercurysextilePluto3.9° to 4.3° orb
stableVenussquareMars5.7° to 6.1° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune6.5° to 6.8° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn7.1° to 7.2° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 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: Earth leads this chart.
Ted’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Pisces 6°24′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 11°36′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosScorpio 7°33′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaScorpio 19°05′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 17°03′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Pluto 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Sun 0.9°
- Eros conjunction Neptune 1.1°
- Eros sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Chiron trine Neptune 2.2°
- Eros square Jupiter 2.8°
- Chiron opposition Mars 3.0°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 3.0°
Ted’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Ted’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 Venus 0.0°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.2°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.3°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.3°
Born the same day as Ted
2 other people here were born on July 4, 1961, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Santa Ana sits at 33.7°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Ted
Other screenwriters
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- Tilda Swinton1960
- Laurence Fishburne1961
- Sean Penn1960
- Tom Ford1961
Born in United States
- John CorbettAmerican actor and country music singer (born 1961)
- Elizabeth KolbertAmerican journalist and author
- George ClooneyAmerican-French actor and filmmaker
- Howard LutnickAmerican billionaire businessman
- Carolyn ColeAmerican photojournalist (born 1961)
- Forest WhitakerAmerican actor
More charts like Ted’s
Fellow Cancer suns
- Johannes Hans Daniel JensenGerman nuclear physicist
- Pearl S. BuckChinese women Nobel Prize winner, author, teacher, missionary
- Frits ZernikeDutch physicist
Born in Ox years
- Olga TokarczukPolish writer and activist
- Paul WalkerAmerican actor
- Sergey BrinAmerican billionaire businessman
Also born on July 4
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- Michael Sorrentino1981
- Douglas Leone1957
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- Alyssa Miller1989
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Jason AlexanderAmerican actor, comedian, director and television host
- Tracy AndersonAmerican fitness trainer and author
- Lauren AlainaAmerican singer & songwriter (born 1994)
Other Cancer Ox charts
- Vera WangAmerican fashion designer
- Howard LutnickAmerican billionaire businessman
- James NortonBritish actor
- Richard Mofe DamijoNigerian politician and actor
Other Steadfast Strategists
- Samara WeavingAustralian actress and model
- Kacey MusgravesAmerican singer
- Nikki BlonskyAmerican actress
- Patson DakaZambian association football player
Famous people with Life Path 1
- Jenna Bush HagerAmerican journalist, author, and television personality
- David BoreanazAmerican actor
- Marcia CrossAmerican actress
From the journal: Zodiac clashes and the ben ming nian year · Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else
Ted’s cards
Computed from July 4, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The SunAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StrategistWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
1 · Pioneer☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ted’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q943506 (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 Илья97, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ted Elliott 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 Ted Elliott.
Quick answers about Ted Elliott’s chart
- How old is Ted Elliott?
- Ted Elliott is 65 years old, born July 4, 1961 in Santa Ana, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Ted Elliott?
- Ted Elliott is a Cancer: born July 4, 1961, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Ted Elliott's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 4, 1961 birth.
- What is Ted Elliott's Life Path number?
- Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ted Elliott's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ted Elliott's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ted Elliott's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
