Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran (born Edward Christopher Sheeran; February 17, 1991, Halifax, United Kingdom), aged 35, is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. Best-known releases include ÷, + and X. Sheeran's honours include BRIT Awards, Brit Award for British Breakthrough Act and Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance.
Ed Sheeran’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Goat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
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) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ed Sheeran in the U.S.?
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outside the current top list
~26,370
Americans share it since 1880
1959
its peak year
In 1991, 21 American boys were registered Ed — 3,030th on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ed Sheeran’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Edward Christopher Sheeran, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
1
Soul Urge · independence
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on E (5) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ed Sheeran’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1991, 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 Sheeran apart
The Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist came in 2015, when Ed Sheeran was 24.
Ed Sheeran was taught at Academy of Contemporary Music and Thomas Mills High School.
Ed Sheeran was 13 when the work began in 2004.
The family line: born to John Sheeran and married Cherry Seaborn.
Bonnie Wright 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
- Academy of Contemporary Music and Thomas Mills High School
- Instruments
- guitar, voice and live looper
- Awards
- MTV Europe Music Award for Best Song (2021), Time 100 (2025) and BRIT Awards (2018)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best New Artist
- Working from
- 2004
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 94
What the chart says
Ed Sheeran, according to the stars
Core essence
Ed Sheeran is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Ed Sheeran is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Ed Sheeran wants to be loved
Ed Sheeran wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Ed Sheeran, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Ed Sheeran creates
How Ed Sheeran 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. Ed Sheeran 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: Ed Sheeran is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Ed Sheeran 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 bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Ed Sheeran scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.
Computed from Ed Sheeran's birth date. Working below.
Where Ed Sheeran sits
Six lines
Ed Sheeran’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 think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
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 Ed Sheeran
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Halifax 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 Halifax that night
Computed for 53.73°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Menkalinan stood nearest the zenith over Halifax at 9 p.m. that evening, 78.8° above the horizon in Auriga.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 106 catalog stars were up in all.
Halifax sits at 53.7°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −36.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 32° below the horizon, Moon up and 11% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Edward Christopher Sheeran
- Known as
- Ed Sheeran
- Born in
- Halifax, United Kingdom
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ed Sheeran: 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
49 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
3-planet stellium in Aquarius · 1 unaspected planet
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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Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Ed Sheeran's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 17, 1991, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Ed Sheeran was born on February 17, 1991, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Ed Sheeran's birth date, February 17, 1991, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Ed Sheeran’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ed Sheeran's date-only chart is Mercury square Pluto, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Aquarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Ed Sheeran combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Ed Sheeran’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 8° Pisces or 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
stableMercurysquarePluto1.0° to 2.7° orb
Ed Sheeran’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssextileJupiter2.4° to 2.9° orb
Ed Sheeran’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrinePluto3.0° to 4.2° orb
Ed Sheeran’s affections flow straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableUranusconjunctionNeptune3.4° to 3.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.6° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn4.8° to 5.0° orb
possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.0° to 11.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.7° to 13.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionVenusorb from 1.6° to 13.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 4.1° to 17.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 4.6° to 17.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Ed Sheeran’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 22°07′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 3°22′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 0°39′ (moves 0.60° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAries 3°10′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 22°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Saturn 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.6°
- Chiron trine Pluto 1.7°
- Chiron trine Venus 1.9°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.0°
- Ceres square Saturn 2.2°
- Eros square Sun 2.3°
- Ceres square Jupiter 2.7°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 2.9°
Ed Sheeran’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; 3 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Uranus, Neptune; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Ed Sheeran’s chart
Stellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree 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 quintile Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Mars biquintile Neptune 1.0°
- Saturn quintile Pluto 1.2°
Born the same day as Ed Sheeran
Bonnie Wright was born on February 17, 1991 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. At 53.7°N, Halifax keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.
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Born in Goat years
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Also born on February 17
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Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Gordon R. DicksonCanadian-American science fiction writer
- Ian McDonaldBritish science fiction novelist (1960–)
- Gene WilderAmerican actor
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- Ingrid Alexandra, Crown Princess of NorwayCrown Princess of Norway
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Ellie GouldingEnglish singer and songwriter
- Saoirse RonanIrish-American actress
- John CornynAmerican politician and attorney (born 1952)
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Famous people with Life Path 3
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- Werner ArberSwiss microbiologist and geneticist
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Ed Sheeran’s cards
Computed from February 17, 1991. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The EmpressAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ed Sheeran’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q47447 (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 Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ed Sheeran at Wikipedia, edsheeran.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube 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 Sheeran.
Quick answers about Ed Sheeran’s chart
- How old is Ed Sheeran?
- Ed Sheeran is 35 years old, born February 17, 1991 in Halifax, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Ed Sheeran?
- Ed Sheeran is an Aquarius: born February 17, 1991, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Ed Sheeran's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 17, 1991 birth.
- What is Ed Sheeran's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ed Sheeran's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ed Sheeran's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ed Sheeran's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 1 major aspect). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
