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Meat Loaf

Meat Loaf (born September 27, 1947, Dallas, United States; died 2022), was an American singer and actor. Loaf's honours include Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and Echo Pop Award for the Best International Rock/Pop Male Artist.

Meat Loaf’s zodiac sign was Libra, Chinese zodiac was Fire Pig, with Life Path 3 in numerology.

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Meat Loaf’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Diplomat

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.

What Meat’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on M (4) and closes on T (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 6: drive against care.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Meat’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

3 · 2 · 5 · 8

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Sapphire, Diamond, Carnelian

Flower constellation

⭐ Aster · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌸 Hibiscus

Lavender · Blush · Scarlet

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 7, trigram Dui 兌, West group. Best direction Northwest, worst North.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1947, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Meat apart

Meat Loaf took the Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance in 1993, at 46.

The classrooms behind this chart: Thomas Jefferson High School and Lubbock Christian University.

The working life starts in 1968, at 21.

Cause of death is recorded as COVID-19.

On the family side, Meat Loaf was married Deborah Gillespie and Leslie G. Edmonds and raised 2 children.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Meat Loaf: American hard rock musicians, Lubbock Christian University alumni and Neverland Express members.

Avril Lavigne (1984) and Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Thomas Jefferson High School, Lubbock Christian University and University of North Texas
Instruments
guitar, saxophone, voice and keyboard instrument
Awards
Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (1993) and Echo Pop Award for the Best International Rock/Pop Male Artist (1994)
Nominated for
Juno Award for International Album of the Year
Working from
1968
Cause of death
COVID-19
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
60

What the chart says

Meat, according to the stars

Core essence

Meat makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Meat is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.

How Meat wants to be loved

Meat wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Meat gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.

How Meat creates

How Meat makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Meat creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Meat is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Meat is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Meat does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Meat's birth date. Working below.

Where Meat sits

Six lines

Meat’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Meat

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Meat

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

PrivateExpressive
Meat

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Meat

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

PracticalVisionary
Meat

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Meat

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

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Meat Loaf

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

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Dallas that night

Computed for 32.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Dallas was Albireo, in Cygnus, 82.2° up.

Of the 86 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

From 32.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −57.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 95% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 22° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born in
Dallas, United States

The death is recorded at Nashville, Davidson County in 2022.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Meat Loaf: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Meat's chart is

Chart pattern score

63 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · No Earth planets

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Meat Loaf at a glance

Libra Sun

Beauty matters. So does balance.

Meat Loaf's Sun was in Libra for the whole of September 27, 1947, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Libra means →

Fire Pig

Gives more than it gets.

Meat Loaf was born on September 27, 1947, which falls in a Fire Pig year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Pig means →

Life Path 3

The storyteller at the table.

Meat Loaf's birth date, September 27, 1947, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 3 means →

What stands out in Meat’s chart

Meat’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.1° orbMercury flows with Uranus · Trine, 1.6° orbMars flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.1° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 3.4° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.1° orbVenus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.2° orbSaturn fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 4.4° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 6.1° orbSun in Libra · 3°44′☉3°Moon in Pisces · 3°53′☽3°Mercury in Libra · 24°34′☿24°Venus in Libra · 10°13′♀10°Mars in Cancer · 28°01′♂28°Jupiter in Scorpio · 24°55′♃24°Saturn in Leo · 18°48′♄18°Uranus in Gemini · 26°10′♅26°Neptune in Libra · 10°17′♆10°Pluto in Leo · 14°24′♇14°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

Tap a planet, a sign, a house, an aspect line or an element to see what it means and what sits in it.
Lines drawn
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

  • stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 0.7° orb

    Meat’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableMercurytrineUranus0.9° to 2.3° orb

    Meat’s mind flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableMarstrineJupiter2.9° to 3.3° orb

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

  • stableMercurysquareMars3.0° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenussextilePluto3.6° to 4.8° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.1° orb

  • stableSaturnconjunctionPluto4.4° to 4.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionNeptune6.1° to 7.0° orb

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn6.1° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus6.4° to 6.6° orb

  • possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 1.6° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 2.9° to 15.1° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air5 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Meat’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 8°29′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 7°40′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 24°11′ (moves 0.44° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 2°11′ (moves 0.14° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 26°48′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mars 1.2°
  • Hygiea square Sun 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.9°
  • Eros opposition Uranus 2.0°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 2.2°

Meat’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☉ Sun4 pts

    disposes Saturn, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♇ Pluto4 pts

    disposes Jupiter; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Meat’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Venus, NeptuneThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Saturn 0.1°
  • Venus quintile Mars 0.2°
  • Mercury semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.3°
  • Mars quintile Neptune 0.3°
  • Jupiter semi-square Neptune 0.4°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 1.3°
  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°

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Meat’s cards

Computed from September 27, 1947. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The World

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Diplomat

Western zodiac

Libra

Chinese zodiac

Pig 亥

Life Path

3 · Storyteller

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丁

yin Fire

亥

Pig

Water

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Meat’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q152929 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Ronden Talent Management, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Meat Loaf at Wikipedia, IMDb, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Meat Loaf.

Quick answers about Meat Loaf’s chart

What zodiac sign was Meat Loaf?
Meat Loaf was a Libra: born September 27, 1947, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
What was Meat Loaf's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Pig, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 27, 1947 birth.
How tall was Meat Loaf?
Meat Loaf was 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Meat Loaf's Life Path number?
Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
What was Meat Loaf's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Meat Loaf's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Meat Loaf's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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