Eric Cantona
Eric Cantona (born May 24, 1966, Marseille, France, 00:30), aged 60, is a French footballer and actor (born 1966). Cantona has played for AJ Auxerre, FC Girondins de Bordeaux and FC Martigues. Cantona's honours include Premier League Hall of Fame, English Football Hall of Fame and UEFA President's Award.
Eric Cantona’s zodiac sign is Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Horse, with Life Path 33 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Fire Horse, with 
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Eric Cantona’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Healer
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional plane.
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Eric’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
33 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Emerald, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Ivory · Lilac · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
The record
What sets Eric apart
Bob Dylan (1941) and Joseph Brodsky (1940) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Eric, according to the stars
Core essence
Eric is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Eric needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Eric 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 Eric needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Eric wants to be loved
Eric 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 Eric creates
How Eric makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Eric creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: Eric is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Eric is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Eric is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Eric's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Eric sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
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 likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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The quick version
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunFour conversations, one person.
Eric Cantona's Sun was in Gemini at the documented birth time. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Fire Horse
Fire HorseHappiest halfway there.
Eric Cantona was born on May 24, 1966, which falls in a Fire Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 33
Life Path 33Serves first, rests never.
Eric Cantona's birth date, May 24, 1966, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 33 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with teaching through care, service and example. Numerologists read it as an intensified 6, the nurturer's instinct turned toward a community rather than a household. The corresponding tension is self-sacrifice, with the caution that giving at that scale needs a source that is also being filled.
What stands out in Eric’s chart
- Three of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Eric Cantona's timed chart: Mercury in the 4th house, Mars in the 4th house and Neptune in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Eric Cantona's timed chart is Uranus conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Eric Cantona combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Healer.
Eric’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
UranusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 0.3° orb
Eric’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MercurysextileSaturnseparating · 0.5° orb
Eric’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
MarssextileSaturnapplying · 1.3° orb
Eric’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
MoonsextilePlutoseparating · 1.8° orb
Eric’s feelings open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryconjunctionMarsseparating · 1.9° orb
Eric’s mind and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MoonsextileUranusseparating · 2.2° orb
Eric’s feelings open doors for their need for freedom.
MoontrineNeptuneapplying · 2.8° orb
Eric’s feelings flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MoonsquareVenusapplying · 3.5° orb
Eric’s feelings grind against their affections. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 4.0° orb
Eric’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
SunsextileSaturnseparating · 4.6° orb
Eric’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.7° orb
Eric’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SunconjunctionMarsseparating · 5.9° orb
Eric’s core identity and drive act as one.
JupitersquareSaturnseparating · 5.9° orb
Eric’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
MarsoppositionNeptuneseparating · 6.0° orb
Eric’s drive pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
MercuryoppositionNeptuneseparating · 7.8° orb
Eric’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Eric’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.
⚷ ChironPisces 25°40′ · House 2
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 Eric absorbing more of a room than most, and needing somewhere to put it down.
⚳ CeresTaurus 18°56′ · House 4
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Eric is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosCancer 28°20′ · House 6
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Eric is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 20°59′ · House 8
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Eric is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 5°49′ · House 2
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces is read as a refusal to be reasonable about longing. Eric is read as someone whose imagination goes where it is not invited.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.0°
- Eros trine Saturn 0.5°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.5°
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.8°
- Ceres sextile Moon 1.3°
- Ceres opposition Neptune 1.6°
- Eros sextile Mars 1.9°
- Chiron conjunction Saturn 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 2.1°
- Chiron sextile Mercury 2.7°
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°).
Eric’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon10 pts
rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Jupiter; 4 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune7 pts
disposes Saturn; angular in the tenth house; 4 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Eric is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Eric’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
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.
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Jupiter quintile Uranus 0.2°
- Sun semi-square Moon 0.3°
- Venus biquintile Uranus 0.4°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus quincunx Neptune 0.6°
- Venus biquintile Pluto 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 1.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.8°
Eric’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquarius | Uranus in Virgo, house 8 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Scorpio, house 10 | Saturn | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Taurus, house 4 | Venus | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Aries, house 3 | Mercury, Mars | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 4 | Sun | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Cancer, house 6 | Moon, Jupiter | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Gemini, house 5 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 4 | Uranus, Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Aries, house 3 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 8 | Neptune | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Cancer, house 6 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Pisces, house 2 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Eric’s cards
Every card is computed from May 24, 1966, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丙
yang Fire
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q170328, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eric Cantona 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.
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Quick answers about Eric Cantona’s chart
- How old is Eric Cantona?
- Eric Cantona is 60 years old, born May 24, 1966 in Marseille, France.
- What zodiac sign is Eric Cantona?
- Eric Cantona is a Gemini: born May 24, 1966, which puts the Sun in Gemini at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Fire Horse.
- What is Eric Cantona's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 24, 1966 birth.
- What time was Eric Cantona born?
- 00:30 local time in Marseille, France, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Eric Cantona's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 00:30 birth time in Marseille, France (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- How tall is Eric Cantona?
- Eric Cantona is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What is Eric Cantona's Life Path number?
- Life Path 33, calculated in numerology from the May 24, 1966 birth date.
- What is Eric Cantona's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Pisces at 25°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons for the May 24, 1966 birth time.
- Where is Eric Cantona's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 5°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Eric Cantona's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Uranus, Pluto; angular in the fourth house; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
