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Leah McSweeney

Leah McSweeney (born August 27, 1982, New York City, United States), aged 44, is an American fashion designer.

Leah McSweeney’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Leah McSweeney’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Storyteller

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

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

#58

US rank in 2025

~256,954

Americans share it since 1880

2009

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Leah’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

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

Lucky numbers

1 · 3 · 4 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Wednesday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Peridot, Emerald, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 💠 Water Lily

Coral · Lilac · Moonlight white

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

The record

What sets Leah apart

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908) and Jamala (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Leah, according to the stars

Core essence

Leah notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Leah is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.

The vibe

Underneath, Leah is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Leah needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.

How Leah wants to be loved

Leah wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Leah openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.

How Leah creates

How Leah makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Leah creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Leah is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Leah is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Leah leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Leah runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

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

Where Leah sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Leah

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Leah

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

PrivateExpressive
Leah

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Leah

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

PracticalVisionary
Leah

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Leah

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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Leah McSweeney at a glance

Virgo Sun

Standards nobody else can meet.

Leah McSweeney's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 27, 1982, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.

Water Dog

Worries so you don't have to.

Leah McSweeney was born on August 27, 1982, which falls in a Water Dog year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Dog readings emphasise loyalty, honesty and a strong sense of what is fair. The Chinese almanacs describe the Dog as the guardian of the cycle, protective of its own and quick to notice a wrong. The corresponding caution in the tradition is anxiety: a watchfulness that does not know when to stand down.

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

Leah McSweeney's birth date, August 27, 1982, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 1 readings associate the number with initiative, independence and the role of going first: deciding, beginning and leading before agreement has formed. Numerologists describe it as the path of the pioneer. The corresponding tension is isolation, with the caution that the front of the line can be a lonely place to stand.

What stands out in Leah’s chart

Leah’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Leah McSweeney, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 11° to 23° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Neptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.6° orbMercury opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 1.3° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.4° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 1.4° orbVenus grinds against Mars · Square, 1.6° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 1.7° orbVenus opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 3.1° orbSun grinds against Uranus · Square, 3.3° orbSun in Virgo · 4°03′☉4°Moon in Sagittarius · 17°51′☽17°Mercury in Virgo · 29°23′☿29°Venus in Leo · 16°10′♀16°Mars in Scorpio · 14°35′♂14°Jupiter in Scorpio · 5°28′♃5°Saturn in Libra · 19°15′♄19°Uranus in Sagittarius · 0°43′♅0°Neptune in Sagittarius · 24°18′ · retrograde♆℞24°Pluto in Libra · 24°55′♇24°

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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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.

  • stableMoontrineVenus0.1° to 7.0° orb

    Leah’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.6° orb

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

  • stableMercurysextileUranus0.7° to 2.0° orb

    Leah’s mind opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter1.0° to 1.8° orb

    Leah’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableVenussquareMars1.3° to 1.9° orb

    Leah’s affections grind against their drive.

  • stableVenussextileSaturn2.5° to 3.6° orb

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

  • stableSunsquareUranus2.9° to 3.8° orb

    Leah’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune4.4° to 5.7° orb

    Leah’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto5.6° to 5.7° orb

    Leah’s discipline and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 0.1° to 7.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonconjunctionNeptuneorb from 0.5° to 12.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextilePlutoorb from 1.2° to 13.0° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable5 of 10

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

Leah’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.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 27°43′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

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

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Leah building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresScorpio 22°11′ (moves 0.27° over the day)

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

    Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Leah is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 10°56′ (moves 0.61° 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. Leah is read as uninterested in anything half-felt.

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 8°01′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Leah is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 7°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Leah is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.

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.

  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 2.1°
  • Hygiea sextile Jupiter 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°).

Leah’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. ☿ Mercury8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus5 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Leah is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.

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 Leah’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.

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.

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.

  • Sun semi-square Saturn 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 0.2°
  • Sun quintile Mars 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.8°

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

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Leah’s cards

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Western zodiac

Virgo

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Dog 戌

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☿ Ruled by Mercury

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Leah McSweeney, 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

Leah’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q6509231, 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 Leahbust_small2.jpg: Mttmwiki derivative work: Chzz ►, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Leah McSweeney at Wikipedia.

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.

These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Leah McSweeney.

Quick answers about Leah McSweeney’s chart

How old is Leah McSweeney?
Leah McSweeney is 44 years old, born August 27, 1982 in New York City, United States.
What zodiac sign is Leah McSweeney?
Leah McSweeney is a Virgo: born August 27, 1982, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Water Dog.
What is Leah McSweeney's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Dog, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 27, 1982 birth.
What time was Leah McSweeney 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.
What is Leah McSweeney's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology from the August 27, 1982 birth date.
What is Leah McSweeney's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 27, 1982 birth date.
Where is Leah McSweeney's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 7°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Leah McSweeney's dominant planet?
Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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