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Ed Harris

Ed Harris (born November 28, 1950, Englewood, United States), aged 75, is an American actor and director (born 1950). Harris has played for Columbia Lions football. Harris's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Ed Harris’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Tiger, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

Your match with Ed Harris

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Ed Harris’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Seeker

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Ed Harris in the U.S.?

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outside the current top list

~26,370

Americans share it since 1880

1959

its peak year

The SSA recorded 164 American boys named Ed in 1950: 521st for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Ed Harris’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

6

Soul Urge · being needed

4

Personality · steady, dependable

The name opens on E (5) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

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

Ed Harris’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Topaz, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Camellia

Gold · Rose-gold · Silver

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1950, 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 Ed Harris apart

The Theatre World Award came in 1986, when Ed Harris was 36.

Ed Harris was taught at Tenafly High School and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ed Harris was 23 when the work began in 1973.

Ed Harris was born to Bob L. Harris and married Amy Madigan.

Wikipedia files Ed Harris under Male actors from Englewood, New Jersey, Columbia Lions football players and Film directors from New Jersey.

Russell A. Hulse shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Tenafly High School, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Oklahoma
Awards
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (2005), Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (1996) and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (1998)
Nominated for
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play and Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Working from
1973
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
78

What the chart says

Ed Harris, according to the stars

Core essence

Ed Harris is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Ed Harris is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.

The vibe

Underneath, Ed Harris is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Ed Harris needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Ed Harris wants to be loved

Ed Harris 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 Ed Harris and watch them fall for you again.

How Ed Harris creates

How Ed Harris 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. Ed Harris 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: Ed Harris 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Ed Harris is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Ed Harris does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Ed Harris's birth date. Working below.

Where Ed Harris sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Ed Harris

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Ed Harris

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Ed Harris

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Ed Harris

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Ed Harris

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Ed Harris

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Ed Harris

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Englewood 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 Englewood that night

Computed for 40.89°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Almach stood nearest the zenith over Englewood at 9 p.m. that evening, 84.8° above the horizon in Andromeda.

The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.

Englewood sits at 40.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Englewood on any night.

The Moon, 83% lit at waning gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 50° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Englewood, United States
Lives in
Los Angeles · Malibu

Wikidata records Los Angeles and Malibu as Ed Harris's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

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

How unusual Ed's chart is

Chart pattern score

64 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 2 unaspected planets · T-square onto Neptune

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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Sagittarius Sun

Says the quiet part loud.

Ed Harris's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of November 28, 1950, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Sagittarius means →

Metal Tiger

Leaps first, apologises never.

Ed Harris was born on November 28, 1950, which falls in a Metal Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 9

Carries the whole room's weight.

Ed Harris's birth date, November 28, 1950, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Ed Harris’s chart

Ed Harris’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Cancer depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Pluto · Trine, 0.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.1° orbMoon grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.6° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.7° orbMercury opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 1.9° orbMoon faces off with Mars · Opposition, 3.3° orbSun fuses with Venus · Conjunction, 3.6° orbSun grinds against Jupiter · Square, 6.3° orbSun in Sagittarius · 5°54′☉5°Moon in Cancer · 20°23′☽20°Mercury in Sagittarius · 20°40′☿20°Venus in Sagittarius · 9°32′♀9°Mars in Capricorn · 17°04′♂17°Jupiter in Aquarius · 29°38′♃29°Saturn in Libra · 0°38′♄0°Uranus in Cancer · 8°42′ · retrograde♅℞8°Neptune in Libra · 18°45′♆18°Pluto in Leo · 19°51′ · retrograde♇℞19°

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

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
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

  • stableMercurytrinePluto0.1° to 1.6° orb

    Ed Harris’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto1.1° orb

    Ed Harris’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableMercurysextileNeptune1.2° to 2.6° orb

    Ed Harris’s mind opens doors for their imagination.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune1.3° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus3.5° to 3.7° orb

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.8° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.0° to 9.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 7.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 4.2° to 16.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunsextileSaturnorb from 4.8° to 5.7° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionUranusorb from 5.6° to 17.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMarsoppositionUranusorb from 8.0° to 8.8° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

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

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

Ed Harris’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 22°23′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 7°30′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 6°43′ (moves 0.68° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 11°27′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 5°48′ (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 opposition Sun 0.1°
  • Eros conjunction Sun 0.8°
  • Ceres opposition Uranus 1.2°
  • Chiron conjunction Mercury 1.7°
  • Chiron trine Pluto 2.5°
  • Eros conjunction Venus 2.8°
  • Hygiea opposition Uranus 2.8°

Ed Harris’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☽ Moon3 pts

    in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Uranus

Configurations in Ed Harris’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus quincunx Uranus 0.8°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.0°

Ed Harris’s family here

One relative of Ed Harris also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Ed Harris

Russell A. Hulse was born on November 28, 1950 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. Englewood sits at 40.9°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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Ed Harris’s cards

Computed from November 28, 1950. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Seeker

Western zodiac

Sagittarius

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

9 · Healer

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

卯

Rabbit

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Ed Harris’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q104791 (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 Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Ed Harris 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 Ed Harris.

Quick answers about Ed Harris’s chart

How old is Ed Harris?
Ed Harris is 75 years old, born November 28, 1950 in Englewood, United States.
What zodiac sign is Ed Harris?
Ed Harris is a Sagittarius: born November 28, 1950, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
What is Ed Harris's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 28, 1950 birth.
What is Ed Harris's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Ed Harris's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Ed Harris's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Ed Harris's dominant planet?
Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 1 major aspect). Sun is second and Moon third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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