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Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen (born January 26, 1955, Amsterdam, Netherlands; died 2020), was a Dutch-American rock guitarist.

Eddie Van Halen’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, Chinese zodiac was Wood Goat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.

Your match with Eddie

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Eddie Van Halen’s AsterNym identity

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.

Fire Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive 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

Of the names registered in 1955, Eddie came 92nd among boys and 764th among girls, carried by 3,781 American boys and 156 girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Eddie’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

5

Expression · versatility

8

Soul Urge · achievement

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on E (5) and closes on E (5). 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

11 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌸 Green Orchid

Crimson · Ivory · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1954, 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

Paul Newman (1925) and Ellen DeGeneres (1958) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Citizenship
United States and Kingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
English and Dutch

What the chart says

Eddie, according to the stars

Core essence

Eddie is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Eddie 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 Eddie wants to be loved

Eddie 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 Eddie and watch them fall for you again.

How Eddie creates

How Eddie 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. Eddie 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: Eddie 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Eddie is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Eddie gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.

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.

Intimate circleWide network
Eddie

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Eddie

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Eddie

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Eddie

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Eddie

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

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Eddie

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Eddie Van Halen

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Amsterdam on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Eddie’s birth-night reference starCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 81.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Capella →The warmest lightProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 30.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Procyon →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Amsterdam that night

Computed for 52.37°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Amsterdam was Capella, in Auriga, 81.7° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 108 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 52.4°N, Vega, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Amsterdam at all: they sit past the −37.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waxing crescent, 9% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 34° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Amsterdam, Netherlands

The death is recorded at Santa Monica, Los Angeles County in 2020.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Eddie Van Halen: 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

44 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Saturn · 1 unaspected planet · No Earth planets

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

Weird on purpose, never sorry.

Eddie Van Halen's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 26, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Eddie Van Halen was born on January 26, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 11

Sees what the rest missed.

Eddie Van Halen's birth date, January 26, 1955, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 11 means →

What stands out in Eddie’s chart

Eddie’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 28° to 11° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 1.7° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 2.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.2° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.3° orbUranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 3° orbJupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.3° orbMercury grinds against Saturn · Square, 3.8° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.3° orbSun in Aquarius · 5°43′☉5°Moon in Pisces · 4°55′☽4°Mercury in Aquarius · 23°59′☿23°Venus in Sagittarius · 18°53′♀18°Mars in Aries · 8°04′♂8°Jupiter in Cancer · 23°30′ · retrograde♃℞23°Saturn in Scorpio · 20°13′♄20°Uranus in Cancer · 25°14′ · retrograde♅℞25°Neptune in Libra · 28°14′♆28°Pluto in Leo · 26°03′ · retrograde♇℞26°

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.
Lines drawn
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

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto1.5° to 2.7° orb

    Eddie’s mind pulls against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus1.7° to 1.8° orb

    Eddie’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunsextileMars2.2° to 2.5° orb

    Eddie’s core identity opens doors for their drive.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.2° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune3.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn3.2° to 4.3° orb

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn3.2° to 3.4° orb

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune3.7° to 4.9° orb

  • stableJupitersquareNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb

  • stableSaturntrineUranus5.0° to 5.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto5.8° to 5.9° orb

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 13.4° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 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, with no planets in Earth signs.

Eddie’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCapricorn 29°54′ (moves 0.09° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 27°59′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 25°29′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaLibra 18°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 25°06′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Venus 0.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.1°
  • Ceres sextile Neptune 0.3°
  • Eros opposition Pluto 0.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.1°
  • Eros conjunction Mercury 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 1.6°
  • Chiron square Neptune 1.7°
  • Ceres trine Pluto 1.9°
  • Eros trine Neptune 2.7°

Eddie’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Venus; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Eddie’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Mercury, Pluto, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

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

  • Venus biquintile Uranus 0.3°
  • Mercury quincunx Jupiter 0.5°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.8°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 0.9°
  • Mercury quincunx Uranus 1.3°
  • Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.3°
  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.4°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.8°

Eddie’s family here

One relative of Eddie Van Halen also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Eddie’s cards

Computed from January 26, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Judgement

AsterNym identity card

The Radiant Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

11 · Visionary

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Fire.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Eddie’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q272012 (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 Carl Lender, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Eddie Van Halen at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X 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 Van Halen.

Quick answers about Eddie Van Halen’s chart

What zodiac sign was Eddie Van Halen?
Eddie Van Halen was an Aquarius: born January 26, 1955, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What was Eddie Van Halen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 26, 1955 birth.
What was Eddie Van Halen's Life Path number?
Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
What was Eddie Van Halen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 29°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Eddie Van Halen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Eddie Van Halen's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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