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, Chinese zodiac is Water Goat, with Life Path 22 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Goat, with 
Life Path 22 in numerology.Your match with Eric
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
Of the names registered in 1943, Eric came 161st, carried by 1,170 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Eric’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
1
Soul Urge · independence
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on E (5) and closes on C (3). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
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
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 record
What sets Eric apart
Lucy Lawless (1968) and Sam Walton (1918) 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 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. 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 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.
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 Eric Idle
Three stars chosen from the real sky above South Shields 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 South Shields that night
Computed for 54.99°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at South Shields at 9 p.m. that evening: Muscida of Ursa Major, within 6.0° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 55.0°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from South Shields at all: they sit past the −35.0° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 12° below the horizon, Moon down and 42% lit at last quarter.
How unusual Eric's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
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 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.
What Aries means →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.
What the Goat means →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.
What Life Path 22 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 19° Capricorn 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
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
stableMercurytrinePluto2.1° to 4.1° orb
stableSuntrinePluto2.4° to 3.4° orb
stableSaturnsextilePluto2.9° orb
stableUranussextilePluto3.4° orb
stableVenussquarePluto3.5° to 4.7° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto4.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.5° to 6.4° orb
stableVenussquareMars6.3° to 6.8° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 23°29′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresAries 27°06′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 18°07′ (moves 0.86° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 1°19′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 23°44′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Eric’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Eric’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.
- 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°
More people like Eric
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More charts like Eric’s
Fellow Aries suns
- Joe FrancisAmerican criminal and founder of Girls Gone Wild (born 1973)
- Kevin FederlineAmerican rapper and entertainer (born 1978)
- Blake Fielder-CivilBritish actor
Born in Goat years
- Tania LeónCuban composer and conductor
- William Carlos WilliamsAmerican poet
- Elizabeth StroutAmerican novelist (born 1956)
Also born on March 29
- Lucy Lawless1968
- Sam Walton1918
- Irene1991
- Amy Sedaris1961
- Joseph Hooton Taylor1941
- John Vane1927
Fellow Yang Fire day masters
- James SchuylerAmerican poet
- John PatrickAmerican playwright and screenwriter
- Elizabeth FrankAmerican academic
Other Aries Goat charts
- Barbara KingsolverAmerican author, poet and essayist
- Bob WoodwardAmerican investigative journalist (born 1943)
- Michael BennettAmerican choreographer
- Malcolm BrowneAmerican photographer and journalist
Other Radiant Pioneers
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Famous people with Life Path 22
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From the journal: Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained · Your Kua number, and why it splits households
Eric’s cards
Computed from March 29, 1943. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Radiant PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
22 · Master Builder♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Eric’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q210741 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Eric Idle's Life Path number?
- Life Path 22, calculated in numerology.
- What is Eric Idle's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
