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, Chinese zodiac is Metal Ox, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Ox, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Eddie
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.
How common is the name Eddie in the U.S.?
#861
US rank in 2025
~227,627
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
The SSA recorded 4,082 American boys and 92 girls named Eddie in 1961: 102nd among boys and 1,148th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eddie’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Edward Regan Murphy, not the name they published under.
3
Expression · expression and voice
6
Soul Urge · being needed
33
Personality · warm authority
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
Eddie’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
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 1961, 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 Eddie apart
The Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay came in 1990, when Eddie Murphy was 29.
Study took Eddie Murphy to Roosevelt High School and Nassau Community College.
Eddie Murphy was 15 when the work began in 1976.
The family line: married Tracey Edmonds and Nicole Mitchell Murphy and raised 5 children.
Wikipedia files Eddie Murphy under Comedians from Brooklyn, African-American screenwriters and American impressionists (entertainers).
Marlon Brando (1924) and Jane Goodall (1934) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Roosevelt High School and Nassau Community College
- Instruments
- guitar, voice, electric bass guitar and musical keyboard
- Awards
- Grammy Awards (2007), Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture (2007) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (2020)
- Nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay and Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
- Working from
- 1976
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 109
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. Working below.
Where Eddie sits
Six lines
Eddie’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
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.
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 Eddie Murphy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn that night
Computed for 40.65°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Brooklyn at 9 p.m. that evening: Tania Australis of Ursa Major, within 5.2° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 103 catalog stars were up in all.
Brooklyn sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 91% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 28° down.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Edward Regan Murphy
- Known as
- Eddie Murphy
- Born in
- Brooklyn, United States
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Eddie Murphy: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Eddie's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Venus retrograde
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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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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Ox means →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.
What Life Path 6 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 6° to 20° 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
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
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn4.3° to 4.4° orb
stableMercurytrineMars4.5° to 5.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.7° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironPisces 4°40′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 7°40′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 19°22′ (moves 0.25° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Sagittarius 0°53′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 6°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Eddie’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Eddie’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.
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 1.2°
- Sun quintile Jupiter 1.5°
- Mercury semi-square Jupiter 1.5°
- Mercury quincunx Uranus 2.3°
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Fellow Aries suns
- David LeanBritish filmmaker and editor
- Joel GreyAmerican actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer (born 1932)
- Hugh O'BrianAmerican actor and United States Marine
Born in Ox years
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Also born on April 3
- Marlon Brando1924
- Jane Goodall1934
- Nigel Farage1964
- Cobie Smulders1982
- Amanda Bynes1986
- Adam Scott1973
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
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- Trevis GipsonAmerican football player (born 1997)
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Other Radiant Diplomats
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- Deniz UndavGerman association football player
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- Junnosuke SuzukiJapanese association football player
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Dean-Charles ChapmanEnglish actor
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Eddie’s cards
Computed from April 3, 1961. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Radiant DiplomatWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
6 · Guardian♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eddie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q43874 (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 David Shankbone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eddie Murphy at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is Eddie Murphy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
