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Meg Tilly

Meg Tilly (born February 14, 1960, Long Beach, United States), aged 66, is an American-Canadian actress. Tilly's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.

Meg Tilly’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rat, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Meg Tilly’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

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

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outside the current top list

~5,321

Americans share it since 1941

1959

its peak year

Of the names registered in 1960, Meg came 764th, carried by 179 American girls.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Meg’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

5

Soul Urge · freedom

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on M (4) and closes on G (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 7: voice against analysis.

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

Meg’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia

Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1960, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Meg apart

Meg Tilly took the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture in 1985, at 25.

Training came by way of Esquimalt High School and Chief Sealth International High School.

The working life starts in 1980, at 20.

The family line: married Don Calame and raised 2 children.

The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Meg Tilly: Best Actress in a Drama Series Canadian Screen Award winners, American women writers of young adult literature and Canadian actresses of Chinese descent.

Ángel Di María (1988) and Michael Bloomberg (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Esquimalt High School and Chief Sealth International High School
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture (1985)
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Working from
1980
Citizenship
United States and Canada
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
37

What the chart says

Meg, according to the stars

Core essence

Meg is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Meg is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

The vibe

Underneath, Meg is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Meg needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.

How Meg wants to be loved

Meg wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Meg you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Meg creates

How Meg makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Meg 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: Meg is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Meg is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Meg does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Meg's birth date. Working below.

Where Meg sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Meg

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Meg

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

PrivateExpressive
Meg

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Meg

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

PracticalVisionary
Meg

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Meg

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 Meg Tilly

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Long Beach 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 Long Beach that night

Computed for 33.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Long Beach at 9 p.m. that evening: Mebsuta of Gemini, within 8.6° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 100 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 33.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Long Beach at all: they sit past the −56.2° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at waning gibbous, 94% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 42° down.

The name and the places

Born in
Long Beach, United States
Lives in
Toronto

Wikidata records Toronto as Meg Tilly's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

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

How unusual Meg's chart is

Chart pattern score

10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

A leaning bowl

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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Meg Tilly in 15 seconds

Aquarius Sun

Cares about everyone, needs space.

Meg Tilly's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 14, 1960, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Metal Rat

Quick, clever, never stuck.

Meg Tilly was born on February 14, 1960, which falls in a Metal Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 5

Change finds them anyway.

Meg Tilly's birth date, February 14, 1960, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Meg’s chart

Meg’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 13° to 26° Virgo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.4° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.9° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.4° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 2.6° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 3.5° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4° orbMercury faces off with Pluto · Opposition, 4.4° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 5° orbSun in Aquarius · 25°09′☉25°Moon in Virgo · 20°10′☽20°Mercury in Pisces · 9°30′☿9°Venus in Capricorn · 22°48′♀22°Mars in Capricorn · 23°40′♂23°Jupiter in Sagittarius · 27°36′♃27°Saturn in Capricorn · 14°28′♄14°Uranus in Leo · 18°46′ · retrograde♅℞18°Neptune in Scorpio · 9°08′ · retrograde♆℞9°Pluto in Virgo · 5°09′ · retrograde♇℞5°

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

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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

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Meg’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars0.6° to 1.1° orb

    Meg’s affections and drive act as one.

  • stableSunsextileJupiter2.0° to 2.9° orb

    Meg’s core identity opens doors for their growth.

  • stableMercuryoppositionPluto3.5° to 5.2° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.0° orb

  • stableSunoppositionUranus5.9° to 6.9° orb

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 0.0° to 12.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.1° to 8.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 9.6° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.9° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysextileSaturnorb from 4.2° to 5.8° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 4.5° to 17.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 27°19′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 27°05′ (moves 0.38° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 12°27′ (moves 0.59° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 23°21′ (moves 0.21° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 20°41′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Jupiter 0.3°
  • Hygiea opposition Sun 1.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.9°
  • Chiron conjunction Sun 2.2°

Meg’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♄ Saturn5.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Mars

  2. 2. ♅ Uranus5 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect

  3. 3. ☉ Sun3 pts

    disposes Uranus; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Meg’s chart

No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.1°
  • Mercury semi-square Mars 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Mars 1.5°
  • Mercury semi-square Venus 1.7°

Meg’s family here

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Meg’s cards

Computed from February 14, 1960. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

庚

yang Metal

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Meg’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q236705 (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 Mr. Bombdiggity, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Meg Tilly at Wikipedia, IMDb and X.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Meg Tilly.

Quick answers about Meg Tilly’s chart

How old is Meg Tilly?
Meg Tilly is 66 years old, born February 14, 1960 in Long Beach, United States.
What zodiac sign is Meg Tilly?
Meg Tilly is an Aquarius: born February 14, 1960, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Meg Tilly's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 14, 1960 birth.
What is Meg Tilly's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Meg Tilly's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Meg Tilly's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 20°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Meg Tilly's dominant planet?
Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (5.5 points: traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Mars). Uranus is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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