Chad Michael Murray
Chad Michael Murray (born January 1, 1981, Buffalo, United States), aged 45, is an American actor. Notable films include CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Gilmore Girls and One Tree Hill.
Chad Michael Murray’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Metal Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Chad
Chad Michael Murray’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Diplomat
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Chad in the U.S.?
#1701
US rank in 2025
~241,767
Americans share it since 1914
1972
its peak year
Chad ranked 47th among boys and 2,089th among girls in 1981, the year of this birth, with 8,412 American boys and 49 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Chad’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
11
Soul Urge · insight
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on C (3) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Chad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia
Crimson · Ivory · Silver
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 1980, 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 Chad apart
The classrooms behind this chart: Clarence High School.
The working life starts in 1999, at 18.
On the family side, Chad Michael Murray was married Sophia Bush and Sarah Roemer.
The same date carries Alicia Keys. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Clarence High School
- Working from
- 1999
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 54
What the chart says
Chad, according to the stars
Core essence
Chad is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Chad is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Chad feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Chad needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.
How Chad wants to be loved
Chad wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Chad and watch them fall for you again.
How Chad creates
How Chad makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Chad creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Chad is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Chad 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. Chad 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 Chad's birth date. Working below.
Where Chad sits
Six lines
Chad’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 likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Chad Michael Murray
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Buffalo 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 Buffalo that night
Computed for 42.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Buffalo was Algol, in Perseus, 85.1° up.
Of the 106 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 42.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −47.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Buffalo on any night.
The Moon, 17% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 44° below the horizon.
How unusual Chad's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
A bowl chart · No retrogrades at all
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 →If you only read one paragraph
Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunAmbition wearing a plain coat.
Chad Michael Murray's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 1, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Metal Monkey
Metal MonkeyWit is the tool.
Chad Michael Murray was born on January 1, 1981, which falls in a Metal Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Creative, loud, warm.
Chad Michael Murray's birth date, January 1, 1981, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Chad’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Chad Michael Murray's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Chad Michael Murray combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Diplomat.
Chad’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Scorpio 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
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.0° to 0.1° orb
Chad’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.5° to 1.1° orb
Chad’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb
Chad’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareJupiter1.2° to 2.1° orb
stableSunsquareSaturn1.2° to 2.2° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter1.6° to 3.2° orb
stableMercurysquareSaturn1.7° to 3.2° orb
stableMarssextileUranus2.6° to 3.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.4° to 5.7° orb
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 1.4° to 11.8° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 1.9° to 12.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 3.9° to 15.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Chad’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 13°37′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 22°45′ (moves 0.22° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCapricorn 5°42′ (moves 0.62° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 22°47′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 0°21′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 1.0°
- Ceres square Pluto 1.4°
- Chiron trine Mercury 1.7°
- Chiron trine Sun 2.4°
Chad’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Chad’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.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 1.5°
- Venus semi-square Mars 1.6°
Chad’s family here
2 relatives of Chad Michael Murray also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
Born the same day as Chad
Alicia Keys was born on January 1, 1981 too, 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. Buffalo sits at 42.9°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on January 1
- Alicia Keys1981
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From the journal: Sect: day charts vs night charts · Why your Chinese sign might be wrong
Chad’s cards
Computed from January 1, 1981. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast DiplomatWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Chad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202313 (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 Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Chad Michael Murray at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Chad Michael Murray.
Quick answers about Chad Michael Murray’s chart
- How old is Chad Michael Murray?
- Chad Michael Murray is 45 years old, born January 1, 1981 in Buffalo, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Chad Michael Murray?
- Chad Michael Murray is a Capricorn: born January 1, 1981, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Chad Michael Murray's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 1, 1981 birth.
- What is Chad Michael Murray's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Chad Michael Murray's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Chad Michael Murray's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Chad Michael Murray's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
