Eric Idle
Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943, South Shields, United Kingdom), aged 83, is a British comedian, actor and writer (born 1943). Idle's honours include European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Eric Idle’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Goat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Water Goat, with 
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Eric Idle’s AsterNym identity
The Radiant Pioneer
Fire represents warmth, visibility and momentum. Fire-led charts are associated with enthusiasm, expression and the ability to encourage other people. Life Path 22 is traditionally called a master path. It represents large-scale building: combining ambitious ideas with practical structure.
Fire Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 22, on the physical 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
US Social Security Administration public records
Eric’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
22 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Aquamarine, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🪷 Lotus
Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Soft pink
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Eric, according to the stars
Core essence
Eric 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 Eric 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, Eric is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Eric needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Eric wants to be loved
Eric wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Eric is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Eric creates
How Eric 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. Eric 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: Eric 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 Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 22 is the master builder. Eric is here to turn a big vision into something that actually stands, at a scale most people would not attempt. Practical and visionary at once, patient, and learning that even the largest things are built one day at a time.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Eric goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Eric's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Eric sits
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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 may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Eric Idle in 15 seconds
Aries Sun
Aries SunRuns at it head first.
Eric Idle's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 29, 1943, 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.
Water Goat
Water GoatNeeds beauty like air.
Eric Idle was born on March 29, 1943, which falls in a Water Goat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Goat readings emphasise gentleness, creativity and a preference for harmony over conflict. The Chinese almanacs describe the Goat as the artist of the cycle, kind and easily moved, and associate it with taste and care for others. The corresponding caution in the tradition is dependence: a need for reassurance that can become a reluctance to decide alone.
Life Path 22
Life Path 22The cathedral builder.
Eric Idle's birth date, March 29, 1943, reduces to Life Path 22 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 22 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with large-scale building: ambitious ideas combined with the practical structure to realise them. Numerologists read it as an intensified 4, the builder working at the scale of institutions. The corresponding tension is the gap between vision and execution, with the caution that a plan this large can stall on its own weight.
What stands out in Eric’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Eric Idle's date-only chart is Sun sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Eric Idle combines a Fire Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Radiant Pioneer.
Eric’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Eric Idle, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Capricorn 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.
stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb
Eric’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileUranus0.0° to 1.3° orb
Eric’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.4° to 2.4° orb
Eric’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableUranustrineNeptune1.1° orb
Eric’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMercurytrinePluto2.1° to 4.1° orb
Eric’s mind flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrinePluto2.4° to 3.4° orb
Eric’s core identity flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.9° orb
Eric’s discipline opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableUranussextilePluto3.4° orb
Eric’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquarePluto3.5° to 4.7° orb
Eric’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
Eric’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.5° to 6.4° orb
Eric’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquareMars6.3° to 6.8° orb
Eric’s affections grind against their drive.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
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. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 23°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Leo is read as a sore spot around being seen. The tradition has Eric performing through the doubt rather than waiting for it to lift.
⚳ CeresAries 27°06′ (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: Eric looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosTaurus 18°07′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Eric wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°19′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Eric at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 23°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Cancer is read as the refusal to be tamed by the role of carer. The reading has Eric guarding a private self that family did not get to name.
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.
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Mercury 0.6°
- Hygiea sextile Neptune 0.8°
- Eros square Mars 2.4°
- Eros sextile Jupiter 2.5°
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 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. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
6 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. 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.
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 0.0°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Neptune 0.2°
- Jupiter semi-square Uranus 1.0°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.2°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Eric Idle, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Eric’s cards
Every card is computed from March 29, 1943, 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
癸
yin Water
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Eric Idle, 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
Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q210741, 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 Eduardo Unda-Sanzana, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Eric Idle at Wikipedia, IMDb, X 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 Eric Idle.
Quick answers about Eric Idle’s chart
- How old is Eric Idle?
- Eric Idle is 83 years old, born March 29, 1943 in South Shields, United Kingdom.
- What zodiac sign is Eric Idle?
- Eric Idle is an Aries: born March 29, 1943, 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 Water Goat.
- What is Eric Idle's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 29, 1943 birth.
- What time was Eric Idle 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.
- What is Eric Idle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology from the March 29, 1943 birth date.
- What is Eric Idle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons for the March 29, 1943 birth date.
- Where is Eric Idle's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 23°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Eric Idle's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects). Mars is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
