Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Eddie Murphy.

3 April 1961 · 13:30 · New York, New York

Eddie Murphy's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Scorpio, Leo rising. Born April 3, 1961 in New York, New York.

About this chart

What is Eddie Murphy's sun sign?

Eddie Murphy's sun is in Aries.

What is Eddie Murphy's moon sign?

Eddie Murphy's moon is in Scorpio.

What is Eddie Murphy's rising sign?

Eddie Murphy's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Eddie Murphy born?

Eddie Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in New York, New York.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio is the inner emotional life, and your Leo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of fire and water means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunAries · 9th house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonScorpio · 4th house

Feeling runs intense, private and all the way down. Strong instincts, fierce loyalty, slow to trust. The shadow is the iron grip on what cannot be controlled. Soothing needs absolute privacy and the right person. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

ASC
RisingLeo · the doorway

You arrive into the light. The temperature of a space changes when you cross the threshold, whether you intended it or not. People reorganise themselves around your presence. Your chart ruler is Sun, in Aries in the 9th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Leo rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeVirgo · 1st house

The pull is toward Virgo: order, useful work, discernment, the craft of the ordinary day. The familiar groove is Pisces: drift, escape, waiting to be rescued. Growth is meeting life through small, concrete, competent acts.

South NodePisces · 7th house

The South Node in Pisces (7th house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in earth territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Leo rising puts the Sun in charge of the whole chart. Your ruler is also one of the lights: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Sun · chart rulerAries · 9th house

You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenTaurus · the 10th house

With Taurus on the Midheaven, a room senses steadiness: someone solid, unhurried, trustworthy with what matters.

IC
ICScorpio · the 4th house

With Scorpio on the IC, home is where depth is allowed: loyalty, secrets, and roots that remake themselves.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in water and cardinal signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusLeo · 1st house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Leo

A generation that revolutionises self-expression, and hands the spotlight to everyone.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 4th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoVirgo · 1st house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundPisces · 7th house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. It plays out most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 12th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need depth, loyalty, and emotional truth without theater.
  5. People meet your warmth first: present, visible, hard to ignore.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is a fire, fixed chart led by the Sun in Aries. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

Missing: Little or no air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is fixed-heavy, which makes you a sustainer. You hold, you persist, you see things through, and you are deeply reliable, with real staying power. The work is in flexibility, in not mistaking stubbornness for strength or holding on past the point.

What leads the chart

Your Sun is the loudest force in your chart, which doubles down on identity, will, and the drive to be fully yourself. You are solar, centered on who you are and the need to shine, more than most people are. That force expresses through Aries, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Aries key.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Scorpio Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio is the inner emotional life, and your Leo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of fire and water means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
41%
Earth
15%
Air
8%
Water
36%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Grand Trine in Watercommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Mars, Mercury, Moon)

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Moon form a grand trine. Yours runs on water: a closed circuit of feeling, intuition, and care. Talent shows as emotional accuracy and the ability to hold what others miss.

gift

Natural water talent that protects and stabilizes you: ability that has always been easier for you than for most people.

difficulty

Because it is a closed circuit that asks nothing, a grand trine can become complacency, a gift never developed because it never had to be. The ease itself is the trap.

release point

A grand trine wants a square or opposition from outside to activate it, a planet that challenges the closed triangle and forces the talent into use. Without that pressure, the work is self-imposed: deliberately spending the gift rather than coasting on it.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Moon trine Marsorb 0.35°

In you, the Moon flows together with Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Sun square Marsorb 0.84°

In you, the Sun grinds against Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Venus trine Uranusorb 3.24°

In you, Venus flows together with Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Moon conjunction Neptuneorb 3.61°

In you, the Moon is fused with Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Venus square Saturnorb 3.64°

In you, Venus grinds against Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Saturn rules Capricornat home

Saturn sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Chiron sextile Vertexorb 0.1°

An easy, available link: Chiron and Vertex feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Moon trine Marsorb 0.3°

A natural, flowing ease: Moon and Mars feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

North Node trine Vertexorb 0.9°

A natural, flowing ease: North Node and Vertex feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun exalted in Arieslifted

Sun is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Where it works
Moon in fall in Scorpiostrained

Moon works against the grain in Scorpio. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Mars in fall in Cancerstrained

Mars works against the grain in Cancer. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Sun square Marsorb 0.8°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Mars never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Chiron opposition North Nodeorb 1.0°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Chiron and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Pluto opposition Chironorb 1.3°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Pluto and Chiron never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

Mercury runs uphill in Pisces, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

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Chart data for Eddie Murphy
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun13°45' Aries9th houseexaltation, chart ruler
Moon14°15' Scorpio4th housefall
Mercury19°43' Pisces8th housedetriment
Venus25°10' Aries9th houseretrograde, detriment
Mars14°36' Cancer11th housefall
Jupiter3°09' Aquarius6th house·
Saturn28°49' Capricorn6th houserulership
Uranus21°56' Leo1st houseretrograde
Neptune10°38' Scorpio4th houseretrograde
Pluto5°59' Virgo1st houseretrograde
Chiron4°40' Pisces7th house·
North Node5°39' Virgo1st houseretrograde
South Node5°39' Pisces7th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith6°53' Leo12th house·
Part of Fortune17°26' Pisces8th house·
Vertex4°47' Capricorn5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
chironsextilevertex0.12°applying
plutoconjunctionnorth-node0.32°separating
moontrinemars0.35°separating
sunsquaremars0.84°applying
north-nodetrinevertex0.87°applying
chironoppositionnorth-node0.99°applying
plutotrinevertex1.19°applying
plutooppositionchiron1.31°applying
mercuryconjunctionpart-of-fortune2.28°separating
marstrinepart-of-fortune2.83°applying
moontrinepart-of-fortune3.18°applying
venustrineuranus3.24°applying
moonconjunctionneptune3.61°separating
venussquaresaturn3.64°separating
jupiteroppositionlilith3.73°applying
neptunesquarelilith3.76°applying
marstrineneptune3.96°separating
jupiterconjunctionsaturn4.34°separating
mercurytrinemars5.12°separating
moontrinemercury5.46°applying
neptunetrinechiron5.98°applying
suntrinelilith6.87°separating
moonsquarelilith7.37°separating
moonsquareuranus7.68°applying
sunquincunxmoon0.50°separating
part-of-fortunequintilevertex0.65°separating
jupitersemisquarepart-of-fortune0.73°separating
saturnbiquintilenorth-node0.84°applying
plutosemisextilelilith0.91°separating
saturnbiquintilepluto1.16°applying
north-nodesemisextilelilith1.23°separating
sunquintilejupiter1.40°applying
jupitersemisextilechiron1.51°applying
mercurysemisquarejupiter1.56°separating
jupitersemisextilevertex1.63°applying
lilithquincunxvertex2.10°separating
mercuryquincunxuranus2.22°applying
chironquincunxlilith2.22°separating
jupiterquincunxnorth-node2.49°applying