Eric Dane
Eric Dane (born November 9, 1972, San Francisco, United States, 13:42; died 2026), was an American actor. Notable films include Grey's Anatomy, Charmed and X-Men: The Last Stand.
Eric Dane’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Water Rat, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Rat, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Eric
Eric Dane’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Guardian
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Eric in the U.S.?
#273
US rank in 2025
~893,184
Americans share it since 1880
1970
its peak year
Of the names registered in 1972, Eric came 16th among boys and 1,000th among girls, carried by 22,027 American boys and 118 girls.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eric’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
11
Soul Urge · insight
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on E (5) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Eric’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 2
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Gold · Crimson · Soft pink
The record
What sets Eric apart
Training came by way of Sequoia High School and San Mateo High School.
The working life starts in 1991, at 19.
Cause of death is recorded as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The family line: married Rebecca Gayheart.
Carl Sagan (1934) and Hedy Lamarr (1914) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Sequoia High School and San Mateo High School
- Working from
- 1991
- Cause of death
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Wikipedia editions
- 54
What the chart says
Eric, according to the stars
Core essence
Eric does not do surface. The core of Eric is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Eric is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Eric is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Eric needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Eric wants to be loved
Eric wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Eric gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Eric creates
How Eric makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Eric builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Eric is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Eric 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Eric fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Eric's birth date. Working below.
Where Eric sits
Six lines
Eric’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 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.
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Read from the sky above San Francisco at 13:42, Eric Dane’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over San Francisco that night
Computed for 37.77°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at San Francisco at the birth hour: Rastaban of Draco, within 16.2° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 84 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from San Francisco at all: they sit past the −52.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun -30° below the horizon, Moon up and 13% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- San Francisco, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 2026.
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What Eric's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Purple Star 紫微, The Minister 天相 in 辰
Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Inner wellbeing
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
75 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Libra · 3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · 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.
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunIntense, private, loyal.
Eric Dane's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What Scorpio means →Water Rat
Water RatFinds the shortcut every time.
Eric Dane was born on November 9, 1972, which falls in a Water Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3Charm with a deadline problem.
Eric Dane's birth date, November 9, 1972, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Eric’s chart
- Four of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Eric Dane's timed chart: Moon in the 10th house, Mercury in the 10th house, Saturn in the 4th house and Neptune in the 10th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Eric Dane's timed chart is Neptune sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Venus, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Eric Dane combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Guardian.
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
NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 0.8° orb
Eric’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 1.2° orb
Eric’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
MercurysextileVenusseparating · 1.9° orb
Eric’s mind opens doors for their affections. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
JupitersquarePlutoseparating · 3.0° orb
MoonsextileMarsseparating · 3.2° orb
MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 4.3° orb
VenussquareJupiterseparating · 5.5° orb
MarsconjunctionUranusseparating · 5.5° orb
MercuryconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 5.8° orb
MarstrineSaturnseparating · 6.7° orb
MoonconjunctionJupiterapplying · 7.3° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air5 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Eric’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 13°42′ · House 2
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 1°39′ · House 9
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 26°03′ · House 12
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaSagittarius 13°25′ · House 10
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 28°57′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Ascendant 0.0°
- Eros trine Mars 0.0°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.3°
- Chiron opposition Venus 1.6°
- Ceres sextile Moon 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Ascendant 2.7°
Eric’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter10.5 pts
rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Pisces; disposes Moon, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus7 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mars, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
3. ♆ Neptune7 pts
rules the Ascendant, Pisces; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Eric’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Venus, Mars, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.- Stellium in Sagittarius · Moon, Mercury, NeptuneThree 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.
- Sun semi-square Pluto 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 0.9°
- Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 1.5°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 1.7°
Eric’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 10 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Aries | Mars in Libra, house 8 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Taurus | Venus in Libra, house 8 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Gemini | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 10 | Saturn | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Cancer | Moon in Sagittarius, house 10 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Leo | Sun in Scorpio, house 9 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Virgo | Mercury in Sagittarius, house 10 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Libra | Venus in Libra, house 8 | Venus, Mars, Uranus, Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 8 | Sun | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Capricorn, house 11 | Moon, Mercury, Neptune | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 4 | Jupiter | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 8 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on November 9
- Carl Sagan1934
- Hedy Lamarr1914
- Luiz Felipe Scolari1948
- Nikki Blonsky1988
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- Tomás AraújoPortuguese footballer (born 2002)
- Nicolas JacksonSenegalese association football player
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From the journal: Yin and yang: the idea underneath everything else · How accurate is Western astrology?
Eric’s cards
Computed from November 9, 1972. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen GuardianWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
3 · Storyteller♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q299421 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by DoD News Features, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eric Dane 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 Eric Dane.
Quick answers about Eric Dane’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Eric Dane?
- Eric Dane was a Scorpio: born November 9, 1972, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
- What was Eric Dane's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 9, 1972 birth.
- What time was Eric Dane born?
- 13:42 local time in San Francisco, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Eric Dane's rising sign?
- Pisces rising, calculated from the documented 13:42 birth time in San Francisco, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Eric Dane's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What was Eric Dane's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°, in the second house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Eric Dane's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 28°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Eric Dane's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (10.5 points: rules the Moon sign, Sagittarius; traditionally rules the Ascendant, Pisces; disposes Moon, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
