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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

4 August 1981 · 04:46 · Canoga Park Neighborhood Council District, Los Angeles, United States

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Libra, Cancer rising. Born August 4, 1981 in Canoga Park Neighborhood Council District, Los Angeles, United States.

About this chart

What is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's sun sign?

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's sun is in Leo.

What is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's moon sign?

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's moon is in Libra.

What is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's rising sign?

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Meghan, Duchess of Sussex born?

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex was born August 4, 1981 in Canoga Park Neighborhood Council District, Los Angeles, United States.

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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 Leo is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunLeo · 1st house

Warmth and self-expression are how the self is known. The need to shine is structural, not vanity. Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen. The Sun is at home here. Lesson: shine without needing to be watched. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonLibra · 3rd house

Feeling is regulated through relationship. Comfort comes from beauty, from harmony, from the mirror of another person. The shadow is losing the self in the management of someone else's mood. Feeling is processed out loud. You need to talk things through to settle them, and there is a strong emotional thread to siblings and the neighbourhood. The voice carries the mood.

ASC
RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Libra in the 3rd house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer 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 NodeLeo · 1st house

The pull is toward Leo: the heart, individual creative expression, being warmly and personally seen. The familiar groove is Aquarius: hiding in the group, cool detachment. Growth is letting yourself want the light and stand in it.

South NodeAquarius · 7th house

The South Node in Aquarius (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 fire 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

Cancer rising puts the Moon 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 Moon · chart rulerLibra · 3rd house

Feeling is processed out loud. You need to talk things through to settle them, and there is a strong emotional thread to siblings and the neighbourhood. The voice carries the mood.

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
MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission.

IC
ICLibra · the 4th house

With Libra on the IC, home is where beauty keeps the peace: partnership tone, balance in the private rooms.

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 air and cardinal signs: mind. Communication. The space between. The energy of relationship and idea.

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.

UranusScorpio · 5th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 5th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 4th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 woundTaurus · 11th house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. It plays out most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 5th house

Lilith is the part of you that sees under the mask and will not pretend you did not. It is depth that was called inappropriate. The medicine is a life where that depth is the point, not the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 5th house (creativity, romance, play): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on air. 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

Detachment and analysis-paralysis. Unchecked, the air lives in the head: endlessly weighing, narrating instead of feeling, connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The middle ground

The everyday work is landing. Drop from the head into the body, let a decision be good-enough, and let feeling have a vote alongside thought.

At your best

A mind that genuinely connects. At your best the air is perspective and fairness: you see every side, name the thing no one could articulate, and pull people into real dialogue.

“I do not have to understand it fully to feel it fully.”

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 clarity: you can name the pattern and connect the room.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need harmony and a mirror that treats you as an equal.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

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, cardinal chart led by the Moon. 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 earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

What leads the chart

Your Moon is the loudest force in your chart, which means feeling, instinct, and the inner life run the show. You are lunar, led by emotion and the need for safety more than by logic or will, deeply attuned and deeply sensitive.

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Libra Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
33%
Earth
10%
Air
31%
Water
26%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

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

Stellium in Libracommon
three or more planets clustered in Libra: Jupiter, Moon, Pluto, Saturn

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Pluto, Saturn gather in Libra. A stellium in Libra concentrates the chart on partnership, beauty, and fairness. You relate and balance at high volume: the one-to-one bond and the need for elegance are where the chart keeps stacking its energy.

gift

Tremendous focus through Libra: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Libra energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Libra stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Libra is also a discharge valve.

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.

Mercury sextile Saturnorb 0.27°

In you, Mercury works easily with Saturn, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.47°

In you, Neptune works easily with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Moon sextile Mercuryorb 0.70°

In you, the Moon works easily with Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Jupiter conjunction Saturnorb 0.81°

In you, Jupiter is fused with Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Moon conjunction Saturnorb 0.96°

In you, the Moon is fused with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

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
Sun rules Leoat home

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

North Node sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.3°

An easy, available link: North Node and Part of Fortune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Mercury sextile Saturnorb 0.3°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.5°

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

Jupiter sextile Vertexorb 0.5°

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

Moon sextile Mercuryorb 0.7°

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

Where it works
Venus in fall in Virgostrained

Venus works against the grain in Virgo. 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.

Chiron opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 1.8°

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

Uranus opposition Chironorb 3.5°

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

Mars square Jupiterorb 4.8°

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

Uranus opposition Part of Fortuneorb 5.3°

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

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Chart data for Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun11°59' Leo1st houserulership
Moon4°53' Libra3rd housechart ruler
Mercury5°35' Leo1st house·
Venus13°08' Virgo3rd housefall
Mars11°26' Cancer12th housefall
Jupiter6°40' Libra3rd house·
Saturn5°51' Libra3rd houseexaltation
Uranus26°03' Scorpio5th house·
Neptune22°19' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
Pluto21°51' Libra4th house·
Chiron22°35' Taurus11th house·
North Node1°38' Leo1st houseretrograde
South Node1°38' Aquarius7th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith24°21' Scorpio5th house·
Part of Fortune1°23' Gemini11th house·
Vertex7°13' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune0.26°applying
mercurysextilesaturn0.27°applying
neptunesextilepluto0.47°applying
jupitersextilevertex0.54°applying
moonsextilemercury0.70°applying
jupiterconjunctionsaturn0.81°separating
moonconjunctionsaturn0.96°applying
mercurysextilejupiter1.08°applying
saturnsextilevertex1.36°applying
mercurytrinevertex1.62°applying
venussextilemars1.69°separating
uranusconjunctionlilith1.70°applying
chironoppositionlilith1.76°separating
moonconjunctionjupiter1.78°applying
moonsextilevertex2.32°applying
moonsextilenorth-node3.25°separating
uranusoppositionchiron3.46°applying
moontrinepart-of-fortune3.51°separating
mercuryconjunctionnorth-node3.95°separating
saturntrinepart-of-fortune4.47°separating
marssquarejupiter4.77°separating
suntrinevertex4.78°separating
jupitertrinepart-of-fortune5.29°separating
sunsextilejupiter5.32°separating
uranusoppositionpart-of-fortune5.33°applying
north-nodetrinevertex5.57°separating
marssquaresaturn5.59°separating
uranustrinenorth-node5.60°applying
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex5.83°separating
venussquarevertex5.92°separating
sunconjunctionmercury6.40°applying
moonsquaremars6.55°applying
neptunequincunxchiron0.27°separating
plutosemisquarevertex0.36°applying
marssesquiquadrateuranus0.40°separating
sunsemisextilemars0.55°separating
plutoquincunxchiron0.74°separating
venusquintilelilith0.78°separating
venusquintileuranus0.91°applying
jupitersesquiquadratechiron0.91°applying
mercuryquintilechiron1.01°separating
sunsemisextilevenus1.14°separating
sunquintilepart-of-fortune1.39°applying
mercurysesquiquadrateneptune1.72°applying
saturnsesquiquadratechiron1.73°applying