Petra Marklund
Petra Marklund (born September 12, 1984, Älta, Sweden), aged 42, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Best-known releases include September, In Orbit and Dancing Shoes.
Petra Marklund’s zodiac sign is Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rat, with 
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Petra Marklund’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Petra in the U.S.?
#1372
US rank in 2025
~14,626
Americans share it since 1880
1927
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Petra’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Green Orchid
Lavender · Lilac · Botanical green
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Petra, according to the stars
Core essence
Petra 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 Petra is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Petra runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Petra needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Petra wants to be loved
Petra 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. Petra gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Petra creates
How Petra 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. Petra 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: Petra 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 Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Petra is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Petra has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Petra's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Petra sits
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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 may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Petra Marklund at a glance
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Petra Marklund's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 12, 1984, 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.
Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
Petra Marklund was born on September 12, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 7
Life Path 7Solitary, curious, deep.
Petra Marklund's birth date, September 12, 1984, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 7 readings associate the number with inquiry, analysis and solitude: the need to understand what others simply accept. Numerologists describe it as the path of the seeker, reflective and private. The corresponding tension is withdrawal, with the caution that a mind at home in its own company can forget to come out.
What stands out in Petra’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Petra Marklund's date-only chart is Venus sextile Mars, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Neptune, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Petra Marklund combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Petra’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Petra Marklund, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 18° Aries depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
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.
Placements
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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.
stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 6.1° orb
Petra’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussextileMars0.9° to 1.5° orb
Petra’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableMercurytrineJupiter1.0° to 1.7° orb
Petra’s mind flows straight into their growth. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMercurysextilePluto1.3° to 2.0° orb
Petra’s mind opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° orb
Petra’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableJupitersextilePluto3.0° orb
Petra’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.1° to 3.8° orb
Petra’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableVenussextileUranus3.3° to 4.6° orb
Petra’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.
stableSunsquareMars4.7° to 5.1° orb
Petra’s core identity grinds against their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
Petra’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.8° to 5.4° orb
Petra’s drive and need for freedom act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.1° to 7.6° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Petra’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.
⚷ ChironGemini 8°33′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Petra turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Petra is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosSagittarius 21°46′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Petra attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 4°31′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Petra is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 0°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Petra carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on 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 opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Eros square Sun 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.7°
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°).
Petra’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. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Mars, Uranus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto6 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 3 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Petra 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 Petra’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.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Petra Marklund, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Petra’s cards
Every card is computed from September 12, 1984, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Petra Marklund, 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
Petra’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230066, 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 Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Petra Marklund at Wikipedia, petramarklund.se, IMDb, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
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 Petra Marklund.
Quick answers about Petra Marklund’s chart
- How old is Petra Marklund?
- Petra Marklund is 42 years old, born September 12, 1984 in Älta, Sweden.
- What zodiac sign is Petra Marklund?
- Petra Marklund is a Virgo: born September 12, 1984, 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 Wood Rat.
- What is Petra Marklund's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 12, 1984 birth.
- What time was Petra Marklund 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 Petra Marklund's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology from the September 12, 1984 birth date.
- What is Petra Marklund's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons for the September 12, 1984 birth date.
- Where is Petra Marklund's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 0°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Petra Marklund's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
