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Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel (born July 17, 1954, Elim hospital, Germany), aged 72, is Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. Merkel has held office as Party Chairman of the CDU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and member of the German Bundestag. Merkel's honours include Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross special issue of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, special issue and Eugen Bolz Prize.

Angela Merkel’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse, with Life Path 7 in numerology.

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Angela Merkel’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Visionary

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.

How common is the name Angela in the U.S.?

#408

US rank in 2025

~675,392

Americans share it since 1880

1971

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Angela’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

7 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Ruby, Pearl, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

💠 Larkspur · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sky blue · Pearl · Botanical green

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Angela, according to the stars

Core essence

Angela feels the room before entering it. The core of Angela is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Angela, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Angela needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Angela needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Angela wants to be loved

Angela wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Angela and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Angela creates

How Angela makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Angela builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Angela is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Angela is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.

Triggers

Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Angela has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.

Computed from Angela's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Angela sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Angela

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Angela

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Angela

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Angela

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Angela

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Angela

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Angela Merkel

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Elim hospital on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Angela’s birth-night reference starEdasichwarm orange · DracoEdasich, in Draco. A warm orange star, 80.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Edasich →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 10.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

The quick version

Cancer Sun

Hard shell, soft centre.

Angela Merkel's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of July 17, 1954, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Cancer readings associate the sign with protectiveness, memory and attention to the emotional temperature of a room. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon, and read it for loyalty to family and home. The corresponding tension is guardedness: the tradition describes a sign that looks after others more readily than it lets itself be looked after.

Wood Horse

Runs free, catches feelings anyway.

Angela Merkel was born on July 17, 1954, which falls in a Wood Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.

Life Path 7

Thinks more than it says.

Angela Merkel's birth date, July 17, 1954, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.

What stands out in Angela’s chart

Angela’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Angela Merkel, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Uranus grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.4° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.9° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 1° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 2° orbMercury fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.9° orbMars flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.9° orbMars opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 3.3° orbSun in Cancer · 24°19′☉24°Moon in Aquarius · 12°05′☽12°Mercury in Cancer · 9°17′☿9°Venus in Virgo · 4°42′♀4°Mars in Sagittarius · 26°37′ · retrograde♂℞26°Jupiter in Cancer · 12°09′♃12°Saturn in Scorpio · 2°44′♄2°Uranus in Cancer · 23°25′♅23°Neptune in Libra · 23°19′♆23°Pluto in Leo · 23°42′♇23°

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.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

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.

  • stableUranussquareNeptune0.1° orb

    Angela’s need for freedom grinds against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° orb

    Angela’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus0.5° to 1.4° orb

    Angela’s core identity and need for freedom act as one.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune0.5° to 1.5° orb

    Angela’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn1.4° to 2.5° orb

    Angela’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionJupiter2.8° to 3.0° orb

    Angela’s mind and growth act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableMarstrinePluto2.8° to 3.0° orb

    Angela’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarssextileNeptune3.2° to 3.4° orb

    Angela’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurytrineSaturn6.5° to 6.6° orb

    Angela’s mind flows straight into their discipline.

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.6° to 16.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysextileVenusorb from 4.0° to 5.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 4.5° to 18.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Angela’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 ℞Capricorn 25°56′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Capricorn is read as a wound around recognition and authority. Angela is read as someone who earns standing the long way and does not fully trust it when it arrives.

  • ⚳ CeresLibra 11°21′ (moves 0.30° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Angela is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 22°13′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Scorpio sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: desire as depth and total exposure. Angela is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ HygieaLeo 17°13′ (moves 0.35° 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 Angela at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 3°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio is read as power the person has stopped apologising for. Angela is read as someone others project onto, and who has learnt to let them.

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.

  • Ceres square Jupiter 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Saturn 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 1.1°
  • Eros trine Uranus 1.2°
  • Eros square Pluto 1.5°
  • Chiron opposition Sun 1.6°
  • Ceres square Mercury 2.1°
  • Eros trine Sun 2.1°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 2.5°
  • Chiron square Neptune 2.6°

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°).

Angela’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. 1. ☽ Moon7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    4 major aspects

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Pluto; 2 major aspects

A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Angela is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.

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 Angela’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.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

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.

  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
  • Mercury semi-square Pluto 0.6°
  • Sun quincunx Mars 2.3°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Angela Merkel, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

Born the same day as Angela

J. Michael Straczynski was born on July 17, 1954 too, the same date with the same year. With no birth time recorded for any of them, this is the same chart, not a similar one. Same sky, different lives.

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Angela’s cards

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Birth tarot card

The Chariot

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AsterNym identity card

The Evergreen Visionary

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Western zodiac

Cancer

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Chinese zodiac

Horse 午

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☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

甲

yang Wood

午

Horse

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Angela Merkel, 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

Angela’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q567, 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 EU2017EE Estonian Presidency, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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.

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Quick answers about Angela Merkel’s chart

How old is Angela Merkel?
Angela Merkel is 72 years old, born July 17, 1954 in Elim hospital, Germany.
What zodiac sign is Angela Merkel?
Angela Merkel is a Cancer: born July 17, 1954, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Horse.
What is Angela Merkel's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Horse, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 17, 1954 birth.
What time was Angela Merkel 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.
How tall is Angela Merkel?
Angela Merkel is 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Angela Merkel's Life Path number?
Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the July 17, 1954 birth date.
What is Angela Merkel's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Capricorn at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 17, 1954 birth date.
Where is Angela Merkel's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Angela Merkel's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus). Neptune is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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