Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (born Rachel Meghan Markle; August 4, 1981, Canoga Park, United States), aged 45, is a Member of the British royal family and Duchess of Sussex since 2018. Sussex is best known for Suits. Sussex's honours include Time 100.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Rooster, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Rooster, with 
Life Path 4 in numerology.Your match with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Architect
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in the U.S.?
#1906
US rank in 2025
~96,727
Americans share it since 1952
1985
its peak year
Meghan ranked 116th among girls and 4,043rd among boys in 1981, the year of this birth, with 2,614 American girls and 10 boys on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name Rachel Meghan Markle, not the name they published under.
2
Expression · connecting people
9
Soul Urge · meaning
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on R (9) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
4 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🤍 White Magnolia
Coral · Gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1981, 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 Meghan, Duchess of Sussex apart
The shelf Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is read from: Suits.
Training came by way of Immaculate Heart Middle & High School and Northwestern University School of Communication.
The working life starts in 2002, at 21.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex was born to Doria Ragland and Thomas Markle, married Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Trevor Engelson and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia's editors put Meghan, Duchess of Sussex under American Anglicans, Expatriate actresses in the United Kingdom and Black British history.
The same date carries Abigail Spencer. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Known for
- Suits
- Educated at
- Immaculate Heart Middle & High School and Northwestern University School of Communication
- Awards
- Time 100 (2021)
- Working from
- 2002
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English and American English
- Wikipedia editions
- 95
What the chart says
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, according to the stars
Core essence
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
The vibe
Underneath, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Meghan, Duchess of Sussex needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Meghan, Duchess of Sussex wants to be loved
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex 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 Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Meghan, Duchess of Sussex creates
How Meghan, Duchess of Sussex 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. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex 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: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Meghan, Duchess of Sussex 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 Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's birth date. Working below.
Where Meghan, Duchess of Sussex sits
Six lines
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Canoga Park on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Canoga Park that night
Computed for 34.20°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Canoga Park at 9 p.m. that evening: Kornephoros of Hercules, within 14.4° of the exact zenith.
Arcturus was the brightest thing up that night, one of 83 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 34.2°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 Canoga Park at all: they sit past the −55.8° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 13° below the horizon, Moon up and 26% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born as
- Rachel Meghan Markle
- Known as
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
- Born in
- Canoga Park, United States
- Lives in
- Toronto · Los Angeles
Wikidata records Toronto and Los Angeles as Meghan, Duchess of Sussex'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 Meghan, Duchess of Sussex: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Meghan,'s chart is
Chart pattern score
34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet
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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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 4, 1981, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Metal Rooster
Metal RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex was born on August 4, 1981, which falls in a Metal Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's birth date, August 4, 1981, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 4 means →What stands out in Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Architect.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 2° to 14° Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileJupiter0.0° to 1.5° orb
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.3° orb
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableNeptunesextilePluto0.4° to 0.5° orb
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn0.8° to 0.9° orb
stableVenussextileMars1.6° to 2.1° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter4.7° to 5.2° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury5.5° to 6.6° orb
stableMarssquareSaturn5.5° to 6.0° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 9.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareMarsorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 8.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 22°36′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresVirgo 3°32′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 3°42′ (moves 0.47° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 13°46′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 24°18′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 1.7°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 2.1°
- Eros square Mercury 2.5°
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s dominant planets
1. ☉ Sun7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus; 3 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus4 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’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.
- Venus quintile Uranus 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Mars 0.6°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.2°
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s family here
4 relatives of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex also have charts on AsterNym, run through the same four engines.
Born the same day as Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
Abigail Spencer was born on August 4, 1981 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Canoga Park sits at 34.2°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Also born on August 4
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s cards
Computed from August 4, 1981. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The FoolAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen ArchitectWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
4 · Architect☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3304418 (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 Fuzheado, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
Quick answers about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s chart
- How old is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex?
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is 45 years old, born August 4, 1981 in Canoga Park, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex?
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is a Leo: born August 4, 1981, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 4, 1981 birth.
- What is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
- What is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mercury; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
