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Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep (born Mary Louise Streep; June 22, 1949, Summit, United States, 08:05), aged 77, is an American actress. Notable films include The Deer Hunter, Kramer vs. Kramer and Out of Africa. Streep's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Academy Award for Best Actress.

Meryl Streep’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Earth Ox, with Life Path 33 in numerology.

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Meryl Streep’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Diplomat

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional plane.

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

#8689

US rank in 2025

~5,599

Americans share it since 1892

1956

its peak year

The SSA recorded 125 American girls and 5 boys named Meryl in 1949: 773rd among girls and 4,048th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Meryl’s name adds up to

Worked from the birth name Mary Louise Streep, not the name they published under.

5

Expression · versatility

7

Soul Urge · understanding

7

Personality · composed, private

The name opens on M (4) and closes on Y (7).

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

Meryl’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

33 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Monday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Pearl, Pearl, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Rose pink · Pearl · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1949, 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 Meryl apart

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie came in 1978, when Meryl Streep was 29.

The schooling ran through Vassar College and Yale School of Drama.

Meryl Streep was 26 when the work began in 1975.

The family line: born to Mary Wilkinson Streep, married Don Gummer and raised 4 children.

Wikipedia files Meryl Streep under Actors from Summit, New Jersey, Actresses from Union County, New Jersey and Bernards High School alumni.

Cyndi Lauper (1953) and Madeleine Vionnet (1876) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Vassar College, Yale School of Drama and Bernards High School
Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014), Academy Award for Best Actress (2012) and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (1980)
Nominated for
MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Working from
1975
Citizenship
United States
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
133

What the chart says

Meryl, according to the stars

Core essence

Meryl feels the room before entering it. The core of Meryl 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 Meryl, it is whoever they have decided to keep.

The vibe

Underneath, Meryl is calm in a way that steadies other people. The Moon in Taurus wants comfort that can be touched: the same mug, the same song, the friend who does not need explaining to. What Meryl needs to feel safe is consistency. Show up the same way twice and you are in.

How Meryl wants to be loved

Meryl wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Meryl gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Meryl creates

How Meryl makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Meryl creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Meryl is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Meryl is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Meryl scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Meryl's birth date. Working below.

Where Meryl sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Meryl

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Meryl

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

PrivateExpressive
Meryl

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Meryl

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

PracticalVisionary
Meryl

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Meryl

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

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Meryl Streep

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

Read from the sky above Summit at 08:05, Meryl Streep’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Summit that night

Computed for 40.72°N, at the documented birth time.

At the birth hour the star closest to straight overhead at Summit was Mirach, in Andromeda, 84.6° up.

Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.

Summit sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −49.3° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Summit on any night.

The Moon, 16% lit at waning crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -27° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
Mary Louise Streep
Known as
Meryl Streep
Born in
Summit, United States
Lives in
Brentwood · New York City

Wikidata records Brentwood and New York City as Meryl Streep's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

A documented birth time makes an astrocartography map possible. Shared Places will draw one for your own chart.

What Meryl's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Enforcer 廉貞 in 寅

Bureau 火六局 · Body Palace in Wealth

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 3/5

Sacral authority · Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

79 / 100 · Rare

Yod onto Jupiter · Yod onto Jupiter · 3-planet stellium in Cancer

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.

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Cancer Sun

Moody, and loyal past reason.

Meryl Streep's Sun was in Cancer at the documented birth time.

What Cancer means →

Earth Ox

Stubborn, and usually right.

Meryl Streep was born on June 22, 1949, which falls in a Earth Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 33

Love as a job description.

Meryl Streep's birth date, June 22, 1949, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 33 means →

What stands out in Meryl’s chart

Meryl’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0° orbMoon grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.5° orbSaturn opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.8° orbSun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.9° orbMercury fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 1.5° orbMercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 2.1° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.5° orbMars flows with Neptune · Trine, 3.6° orbSun in Cancer · 0°43′ · house 12☉0°Moon in Taurus · 14°24′ · house 10☽14°Mercury in Gemini · 10°17′ · house 11☿10°Venus in Cancer · 18°25′ · house 12♀18°Mars in Gemini · 8°50′ · house 11♂8°Jupiter in Aquarius · 0°32′ · house 7 · retrograde♃℞0°Saturn in Virgo · 1°34′ · house 2♄1°Uranus in Cancer · 0°44′ · house 12♅0°Neptune in Libra · 12°24′ · house 3 · retrograde♆℞12°Pluto in Leo · 14°51′ · house 1♇14°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCLeo 2°44′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCAqr 2°44′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCAri 18°40′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICLib 18°40′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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

Placements

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AscendantLeo
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • SunconjunctionUranusseparating · 0.0° orb

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

  • MoonsquarePlutoapplying · 0.5° orb

    Meryl’s feelings grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • SaturnsextileUranusseparating · 0.8° orb

    Meryl’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.

  • SunsextileSaturnapplying · 0.9° orb

  • MercuryconjunctionMarsapplying · 1.5° orb

  • MercurytrineNeptuneapplying · 2.1° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 2.5° orb

  • MarstrineNeptuneapplying · 3.6° orb

  • MoonsextileVenusapplying · 4.0° orb

  • MercurysextilePlutoapplying · 4.6° orb

  • VenussquareNeptuneseparating · 6.0° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Sagittarius 4°13′ · House 5

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

  • ⚳ CeresVirgo 1°56′ · House 2

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Aquarius 20°21′ · House 7

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

  • ⚕ HygieaVirgo 13°00′ · House 2

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 7°24′ · House 9

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Saturn 0.4°
  • Ceres sextile Sun 1.2°
  • Ceres sextile Uranus 1.2°
  • Hygiea trine Moon 1.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.4°
  • Chiron trine Ascendant 1.5°
  • Chiron square Saturn 2.7°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.9°

Meryl’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury7 pts

    in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Mars, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus7 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Taurus; disposes Moon, Neptune; 2 major aspects

Configurations in Meryl’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Sun, Venus, 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.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Jupiter · Sun, Saturn, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
  • yod, the shape it makesYod onto Jupiter · Saturn, Uranus, JupiterTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.

Minor aspects

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

  • Sun quincunx Jupiter 0.2°
  • Jupiter quincunx Uranus 0.2°
  • Sun semi-square Pluto 0.9°
  • Uranus semi-square Pluto 0.9°
  • Jupiter quincunx Saturn 1.0°
  • Sun semi-square Moon 1.3°
  • Moon semi-square Uranus 1.3°
  • Venus semi-square Saturn 1.9°
  • Moon quincunx Neptune 2.0°

Meryl’s houses

Meryl’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1LeoSun in Cancer, house 12Plutoself, body, how you arrive
2VirgoMercury in Gemini, house 11Saturnmoney, possessions, self-worth
3LibraVenus in Cancer, house 12Neptunemind, siblings, the local world
4ScorpioPluto in Leo, house 1emptyhome, family, roots
5SagittariusJupiter in Aquarius, house 7emptycreativity, romance, play
6CapricornSaturn in Virgo, house 2emptywork, habits, health
7AquariusUranus in Cancer, house 12Jupiterpartnership, marriage, open rivals
8PiscesNeptune in Libra, house 3emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9AriesMars in Gemini, house 11emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10TaurusVenus in Cancer, house 12Mooncareer, reputation, public life
11GeminiMercury in Gemini, house 11Mercury, Marsfriends, community, the future
12CancerMoon in Taurus, house 10Sun, Venus, Uranusthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Meryl’s family here

One relative of Meryl Streep also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Meryl’s cards

Computed from June 22, 1949. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Diplomat

Western zodiac

Cancer

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

33 · Lightkeeper

☾ Ruled by Moon

Silver Ag

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

庚

yang Metal

午

Horse

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Hour

丙

yang Fire

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Meryl’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q873 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Ministry of culture, sports and Tourism- Lee Jeong-woo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Meryl Streep at Wikipedia, IMDb, 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 Meryl Streep.

Quick answers about Meryl Streep’s chart

How old is Meryl Streep?
Meryl Streep is 77 years old, born June 22, 1949 in Summit, United States.
What zodiac sign is Meryl Streep?
Meryl Streep is a Cancer: born June 22, 1949, which puts the Sun in Cancer at the documented birth time.
What is Meryl Streep's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 22, 1949 birth.
What time was Meryl Streep born?
08:05 local time in Summit, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Meryl Streep's rising sign?
Leo rising, calculated from the documented 08:05 birth time in Summit, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
What is Meryl Streep's Life Path number?
Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
What is Meryl Streep's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 4°, in the fifth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Meryl Streep's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 7°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Meryl Streep's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Venus, Uranus; angular in the tenth house; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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