Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Meryl Streep.

22 June 1949 · 08:05 · Summit, New Jersey

Meryl Streep's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Taurus, Leo rising. Born June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey.

About this chart

What is Meryl Streep's sun sign?

Meryl Streep's sun is in Cancer.

What is Meryl Streep's moon sign?

Meryl Streep's moon is in Taurus.

What is Meryl Streep's rising sign?

Meryl Streep's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Meryl Streep born?

Meryl Streep was born June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey.

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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 Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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.

SunCancer · 11th house

The self forms around belonging and care. Sensitive, protective, attuned to emotional currents others miss. The interior life is vast; the shell is real, and so is what it protects. Lesson: belong to yourself first. The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

MoonTaurus · 10th house

Feeling is steady, sensual and slow. Comfort comes from the body, from familiar textures, from food and routine. Once attached, the attachment is permanent. The shadow is stuckness dressed up as loyalty to the past. Feeling is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

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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 Cancer in the 11th 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 NodeAries · 10th house

The pull is toward Aries: your own two feet, your own yes and no, action taken before the committee in your head has finished meeting. The familiar groove is Libra: smoothing things over, waiting for consensus, finding yourself through other people. Growth is letting a decision be yours alone.

South NodeLibra · 4th house

The South Node in Libra (4th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Sagittarius, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

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 rulerCancer · 11th house

The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

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.

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MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission. Planets in the 10th (Moon) amplify that signal.

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.

UranusCancer · 11th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Cancer

A generation that breaks the family open, redefining home and belonging.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 3rd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Libra

An era that dreams of universal love and harmony as a spiritual practice, the dissolving of relational borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 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 Leo

An era that remakes self-expression, celebrity and the heart, putting authorship 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 woundSagittarius · 5th house

The wound is meaning: a crisis of faith from beliefs that were imposed, ridiculed, or simply stopped holding, leaving you lost or purposeless. You may preach what you do not yet live, or wander to outrun the emptiness. It plays out most loudly in the 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAries · 9th house

Lilith is the part of you that will not wait for permission. It is the edge that walks in and lets the room adjust, not the other way around. The work is aim: force without a target burns the nearest people; force with a target builds new ground. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning): 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 protect what is tender and make a real home for it.
  4. You need steadiness, touch, and proof that comfort is allowed.
  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 an air, fixed chart led by the Sun in Cancer. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an air-dominant chart, which means you run on ideas, language, and connection. You live in your mind, you think and talk your way through life, and you connect easily, though you can get detached, scattered, or lost up in your own head.

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 Cancer, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Cancer key.

The spine, your Big Three

Cancer Sun · Taurus Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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
23%
Earth
23%
Air
28%
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 Cancercommon
three or more planets clustered in Cancer: Sun, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Sun, Uranus, Venus gather in Cancer. A stellium in Cancer concentrates the chart on home, belonging, and emotional weather. You feel and protect at high volume: family patterns, care, and the need for a real nest define more of the story than you might prefer.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Yod · apex Jupiteruncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Jupiter (Jupiter, Saturn, Sun)

In your chart, Jupiter, Saturn, Sun form a yod pointing at Jupiter in Aquarius. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Jupiter: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Jupiter can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Jupiter: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

Yod · apex Jupiteruncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Jupiter (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus form a yod pointing at Jupiter in Aquarius. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Jupiter: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Jupiter can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Jupiter: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

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.

Sun conjunction Uranusorb 0.02°

In you, the Sun is fused with Uranus, bringing together your core identity and will and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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 square Plutoorb 0.46°

In you, the Moon grinds against Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Saturn sextile Uranusorb 0.83°

In you, Saturn works easily with Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun sextile Saturnorb 0.85°

In you, the Sun works easily with Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Mercury conjunction Marsorb 1.46°

In you, Mercury is fused with Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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
Mercury rules Geminiat home

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

Saturn sextile Uranusorb 0.8°

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

Sun sextile Saturnorb 0.9°

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

Moon exalted in Tauruslifted

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

Mars sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 1.4°

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

Pluto sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.6°

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

Where it works
Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Moon square Plutoorb 0.5°

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

Part of Fortune opposition Vertexorb 2.3°

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

Saturn square Chironorb 2.7°

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

Mars opposition Chironorb 4.6°

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

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Chart data for Meryl Streep
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun0°43' Cancer11th housechart ruler
Moon14°23' Taurus10th houseexaltation
Mercury10°17' Gemini11th houserulership
Venus18°25' Cancer12th house·
Mars8°49' Gemini11th house·
Jupiter0°31' Aquarius6th houseretrograde
Saturn1°34' Virgo2nd house·
Uranus0°44' Cancer11th house·
Neptune12°23' Libra3rd houseretrograde
Pluto14°51' Leo1st house·
Chiron4°13' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
North Node23°28' Aries10th houseretrograde
South Node23°28' Libra4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith7°27' Aries9th house·
Part of Fortune16°24' Gemini11th house·
Vertex18°42' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunconjunctionuranus0.02°separating
moonsquarepluto0.46°separating
saturnsextileuranus0.83°separating
sunsextilesaturn0.85°applying
marssextilelilith1.38°separating
mercuryconjunctionmars1.46°applying
plutosextilepart-of-fortune1.56°applying
mercurytrineneptune2.11°applying
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex2.29°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.46°separating
saturnsquarechiron2.65°applying
mercurysextilelilith2.83°separating
chirontrinelilith3.23°separating
marstrineneptune3.56°applying
jupitersextilechiron3.69°separating
plutotrinevertex3.86°applying
neptunetrinepart-of-fortune4.02°separating
moonsextilevenus4.03°applying
marsoppositionchiron4.61°separating
north-nodetrinevertex4.76°applying
neptuneoppositionlilith4.94°applying
venussquarenorth-node5.05°applying
sunsquarelilith6.74°applying
saturnbiquintilelilith0.11°applying
sunquincunxjupiter0.19°separating
jupiterquincunxuranus0.20°separating
venusquincunxvertex0.29°applying
marssemisquarenorth-node0.36°separating
venussesquiquadratechiron0.80°applying
sunsemisquarepluto0.87°separating
uranussemisquarepluto0.88°separating
jupitersesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.88°separating
jupiterquincunxsaturn1.04°separating
sunsemisquaremoon1.32°applying
moonsemisquareuranus1.34°applying
mercurysemisquarenorth-node1.81°separating
venussemisquaresaturn1.85°separating
moonquincunxneptune2.00°separating