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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Petra
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 1881
1927
its peak year
The SSA recorded 89 American girls named Petra in 1984: 1,354th for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Petra’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
1
Soul Urge · independence
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on P (7) and closes on A (1).
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Petra’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1984, 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 Petra apart
Petra Marklund was 19 when the work began in 2003.
Wikipedia files Petra Marklund under Swedish dance musicians, Robbins Entertainment artists and Dance Nations artists.
Stanisław Lem (1921) and Paul Walker (1973) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Instruments
- voice
- Working from
- 2003
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Languages
- English and Swedish
- Wikipedia editions
- 30
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. Working below.
Where Petra sits
Six lines
Petra’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 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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Petra Marklund
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Älta 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 Älta that night
Computed for 59.25°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Älta at 9 p.m. that evening: Alderamin of Cepheus, within 12.2° of the exact zenith.
Of the 88 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Älta sits at 59.3°N, high enough that Vega, Capella, Deneb and Castor never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.
Nothing below −30.8° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Älta on any night.
Sun 13° below the horizon, Moon up and 94% lit at waning gibbous.
How unusual Petra's chart is
Chart pattern score
43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
A bowl chart · 1 unaspected planet · No retrogrades at all
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.
Score your own chart →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.
What Virgo means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 7 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 7° to 18° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° orb
stableJupitersextilePluto3.0° orb
stableMercurytrineNeptune3.1° to 3.8° orb
stableVenussextileUranus3.3° to 4.6° orb
stableSunsquareMars4.7° to 5.1° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus4.8° to 5.4° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 8°33′
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresTaurus 25°08′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 21°46′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 4°31′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 0°43′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
- Eros square Sun 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 2.1°
- Black Moon Lilith square Jupiter 2.7°
Petra’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Petra’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.
- Mars semi-square Pluto 0.5°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.1°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
More people like Petra
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Born in Sweden
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- BladeeSwedish rapper (born 1994)
- Carl DouglasSwedish noble and financier (b. 1965)
- Alicia VikanderSwedish actress (born 1988)
- Malin AkermanSwedish actress (born 1978)
- Viktor GyökeresSwedish footballer (born 1998)
More charts like Petra’s
Fellow Virgo suns
- Niall HoranIrish singer-songwriter
- Alexander SkarsgårdSwedish actor
- Marc AnthonyAmerican singer
Born in Rat years
- Eva MarcilleAmerican actress, TV host and fashion model (born 1984)
- Tenley MolzahnAmerican dancer
- Robert RedfordAmerican actor and director
Also born on September 12
- Stanisław Lem1921
- Paul Walker1973
- Jesse Owens1913
- RM1994
- Joshua Cheptegei1996
- Kadim Al Sahir1957
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Billy JoelAmerican singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1949)
- Jason IsbellAmerican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1979)
- Steve KazeeAmerican actor (born 1975)
Other Virgo Rat charts
- China MiévilleEnglish writer, critic, and activist (born 1972)
- Vonda N. McIntyreAmerican science fiction writer
- N. K. JemisinAmerican science fiction and fantasy writer
- Duje Ćaleta-CarCroatian association football player (born 1996)
Other Steadfast Seekers
- Dalton SchultzAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Tremon SmithAmerican football player
- C. J. StroudAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Kendall MiltonAmerican football running back
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Geena DavisAmerican actress (born 1956)
- Charlie DayAmerican actor, writer and producer (born 1976)
- Luann de LessepsAmerican reality television personality, model, socialite, actress, author, singer (born 1965)
From the journal: Your Kua number, and why it splits households · Do twins have the same birth chart?
Petra’s cards
Computed from September 12, 1984. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Petra’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230066 (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 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. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not 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.
- 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 is Petra Marklund's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Petra Marklund's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
