Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy (born Edward Regan Murphy; April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, United States), aged 65, is an American actor and comedian. Notable films include Saturday Night Live, Beverly Hills Cop and Coming to America. Murphy's honours include Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
Eddie Murphy’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Metal Ox, with 
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Eddie Murphy’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Diplomat
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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US rank in 2025
~227,627
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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Eddie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
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What the chart says
Eddie, according to the stars
Core essence
Eddie leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Eddie is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Eddie 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 Eddie 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 Eddie wants to be loved
Eddie wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Eddie creates
How Eddie makes things happen: they light the room. A Yang Fire day master is the sun, warm, visible, impossible to ignore, generous with energy and expecting the same back. Eddie creates in front of people and is at their best with an audience and a cause. The work is learning to rest before the fire does it for them.
Instinct
Instinct: Eddie 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 6 is the nurturer. Eddie is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Eddie does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.
Computed from Eddie's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Eddie Murphy in 15 seconds
Aries Sun
Aries SunStarts the thing. Then plans it.
Eddie Murphy's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 3, 1961, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Metal Ox
Metal OxCarries the load without comment.
Eddie Murphy was born on April 3, 1961, which falls in a Metal Ox year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Ox readings emphasise endurance, reliability and the capacity to finish what was started, slowly and without complaint. The Chinese almanacs describe the Ox as the worker of the cycle, whose word holds. The corresponding caution in the tradition is stubbornness that presents itself as principle, and a difficulty changing course once a furrow has been cut.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Eddie Murphy's birth date, April 3, 1961, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Eddie’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eddie Murphy's date-only chart is Sun square Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Venus, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Eddie Murphy combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Diplomat.
Eddie’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Eddie Murphy, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° Scorpio depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunsquareMars0.6° to 1.2° orb
Eddie’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableVenustrineUranus3.0° to 3.5° orb
Eddie’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableVenussquareSaturn3.3° to 3.9° orb
Eddie’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMarstrineNeptune3.7° to 4.2° orb
Eddie’s drive flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 4.4° orb
Eddie’s growth and discipline act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurytrineMars4.5° to 5.6° orb
Eddie’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° orb
Eddie’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 9.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.3° to 12.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 0.8° to 14.1° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 1.8° to 15.2° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.
Eddie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironPisces 4°40′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Pisces is read as a wound around boundaries and faith. The reading has Eddie absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresAries 7°40′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Eddie looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 19°22′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Eddie is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 0°53′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Sagittarius is read as health through movement, space and a reason. Eddie is read as someone who is well when going somewhere.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 6°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Eddie is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros trine Mercury 0.3°
- Chiron opposition Pluto 1.3°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.1°
- Hygiea sextile Jupiter 2.3°
- Eros square Uranus 2.6°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Eddie’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♂ Mars8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune3 pts
disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Eddie is read as acting first and reflecting after.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Eddie’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.2°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 2.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eddie Murphy, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Eddie’s cards
Every card is computed from April 3, 1961, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Fire.
Year
辛
yin Metal
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Eddie Murphy, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Eddie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q43874, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by David Shankbone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eddie Murphy at Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Eddie Murphy.
Quick answers about Eddie Murphy’s chart
- How old is Eddie Murphy?
- Eddie Murphy is 65 years old, born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Eddie Murphy?
- Eddie Murphy is an Aries: born April 3, 1961, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Ox.
- What is Eddie Murphy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 3, 1961 birth.
- What time was Eddie Murphy born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- How tall is Eddie Murphy?
- Eddie Murphy is 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Eddie Murphy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the April 3, 1961 birth date.
- What is Eddie Murphy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 3, 1961 birth date.
- Where is Eddie Murphy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Eddie Murphy's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Venus; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
