Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy (born May 25, 1976, Douglas, Ireland), aged 50, is an Irish actor. Notable films include The Dark Knight, Inception and Batman Begins. Murphy's honours include BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and Academy Award for Best Actor.
Cillian Murphy’s zodiac sign is Gemini, Chinese zodiac is Fire Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, Chinese zodiac is 
Fire Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Cillian
Cillian Murphy’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Storyteller
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Cillian in the U.S.?
#507
US rank in 2025
~4,090
Americans share it since 1995
2024
its peak year
Cillian is in US records from 1995, but 1976 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 2024.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Cillian’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on C (3) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Cillian’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
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 1976, 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 Cillian apart
Cillian Murphy took the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show in 2012, at 36.
Presentation Brothers College and University College Cork shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1995, at 19.
Cillian Murphy was married Yvonne McGuinness and raised one child.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Cillian Murphy: Irish male voice actors, Male actors from Cork (city) and Alumni of University College Cork.
The same date carries Ethan Suplee. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Presentation Brothers College and University College Cork
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actor (2024), Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (2024) and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama (2023)
- Nominated for
- Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy and MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
- Working from
- 1995
- Citizenship
- Ireland
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 89
What the chart says
Cillian, according to the stars
Core essence
Cillian is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Cillian needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
How Cillian wants to be loved
Cillian 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 Cillian is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Cillian creates
How Cillian makes things happen: they hold the flame steady. A Yin Fire day master is the candle, the lamp, the light that is close and personal rather than blazing. Cillian creates intimacy, one room, one conversation, one person made to feel seen. Moody when the fuel runs low, magnetic when it does not.
Instinct
Instinct: Cillian 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 8 is the powerhouse. Cillian is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Cillian fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Cillian's birth date. Working below.
Where Cillian sits
Six lines
Cillian’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 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 Cillian Murphy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Douglas 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 Douglas that night
Computed for 51.88°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Phecda stood nearest the zenith over Douglas at 9 p.m. that evening, 87.3° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 97 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 51.9°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −38.1° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 10% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat -4° below the horizon.
How unusual Cillian's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 unaspected planet · A leaning bowl
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 →The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunNever finishes a book. Reads everything.
Cillian Murphy's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 25, 1976, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Gemini means →Fire Dragon
Fire DragonConfident before the proof.
Cillian Murphy was born on May 25, 1976, which falls in a Fire Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Cillian Murphy's birth date, May 25, 1976, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Cillian’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Cillian Murphy's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Cillian Murphy combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Storyteller.
Cillian’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 18° to 0° Aries or Taurus 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
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus0.2° to 1.9° orb
Cillian’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunsextileMars0.5° to 0.9° orb
Cillian’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableVenussextileSaturn0.5° to 1.6° orb
Cillian’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMarssquareUranus0.8° to 1.5° orb
stableMercurysextileSaturn1.8° to 2.3° orb
stableMarssextilePluto3.7° to 4.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb
stableSuntrinePluto4.2° to 5.2° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus4.9° to 5.0° orb
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn5.9° to 6.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionVenus6.3° to 6.6° orb
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 10.3° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Cillian’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 29°51′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 6°23′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 1°26′ (moves 0.71° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 14°28′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 22°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Chiron square Saturn 0.9°
- Ceres trine Uranus 2.5°
- Eros square Saturn 2.5°
- Eros opposition Uranus 2.5°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.7°
Cillian’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Mars; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Cillian’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 quincunx Uranus 0.4°
- Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Jupiter quincunx Neptune 1.4°
Born the same day as Cillian
Ethan Suplee was born on May 25, 1976 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. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Douglas, at 51.9°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never set at all. Same sky, different lives.
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More charts like Cillian’s
Fellow Gemini suns
- Karl Adolph GjellerupDanish writer
- Jules BordetBelgian immunologist and microbiologist
- Heinrich Otto WielandGerman Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Born in Dragon years
- Alexei AbrikosovSoviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist
- Michel Temer24th Vice-President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 and 37th President of Brazil from 2016 to 2019
- Vinícius JúniorBrazilian association football player
Also born on May 25
- Ian McKellen1939
- Kagiso Rabada1995
- David Sacks1972
- Chloé Lukasiak2001
- Amy Klobuchar1960
- Anne Heche1969
Fellow Yin Fire day masters
- Gene BarryAmerican stage, screen, and television actor
- Andrew GroveHungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author
- Traci LordsAmerican pornographic actress
Other Gemini Dragon charts
- Steven NaifehAmerican writer
- Sylvan FoxAmerican journalist
- Thomas L. MobleyAmerican Kentucky senator and Kentucky poet laureate
- Michel PleauCanadian writer
Other Radiant Storytellers
- Wolfgang KetterleGerman physicist
- Roger Martin du GardFrench writer
- Ilya PrigogineRussian-Belgian physical chemist
- William Henry BraggBritish scientist
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Ismail JakobsSenegalese-German association football player
- Igor ThiagoBrazilian footballer (born 2001)
- Omar RekikDutch-Tunisian association football player
From the journal: Polarities: why each sign has an opposite · How the Chinese zodiac differs across Vietnam, Korea and Japan
Cillian’s cards
Computed from May 25, 1976. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
StrengthAsterNym identity card
The Radiant StorytellerWestern zodiac
GeminiChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Fire.
Year
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Cillian’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q202589 (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 JoshPopov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Cillian Murphy 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 Cillian Murphy.
Quick answers about Cillian Murphy’s chart
- How old is Cillian Murphy?
- Cillian Murphy is 50 years old, born May 25, 1976 in Douglas, Ireland.
- What zodiac sign is Cillian Murphy?
- Cillian Murphy is a Gemini: born May 25, 1976, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day.
- What is Cillian Murphy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 25, 1976 birth.
- What is Cillian Murphy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Cillian Murphy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Cillian Murphy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Cillian Murphy's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
