Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley (born David Nesta Marley; October 17, 1968, Kingston, Jamaica), aged 58, is a Jamaican reggae musician. Marley is best known for Shark Tale. Marley's honours include Daytime Emmy Award, Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album and Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children.
Ziggy Marley’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 6 in numerology.Your match with Ziggy
Ziggy Marley’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Diplomat
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
How common is the name Ziggy in the U.S.?
#1491
US rank in 2025
~1,778
Americans share it since 1988
2022
its peak year
The SSA suppresses any name given to fewer than five children in a year, and Ziggy falls under that line for 1968. Its peak came in 2022, and 1,778 Americans have carried it since 1988.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Ziggy’s name adds up to
Worked from the birth name David Nesta Marley, not the name they published under.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Ziggy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
6 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The record
What sets Ziggy apart
Eminem (1972) and Arthur Miller (1915) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Ziggy, according to the stars
Core essence
Ziggy makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Ziggy is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Ziggy wants to be loved
Ziggy wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Ziggy even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Ziggy creates
How Ziggy makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Ziggy creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Ziggy is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Ziggy is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means Ziggy channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from Ziggy's birth date. Working below.
Where Ziggy sits
Six lines
Ziggy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Ziggy Marley
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kingston 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 Kingston that night
Computed for 17.97°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Markab stood nearest the zenith over Kingston at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.6° above the horizon in Pegasus.
Of the 82 catalog stars above the horizon, Vega was the brightest.
Kingston sits at 18.0°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon down and 18% lit at waning crescent.
The name and the places
- Born as
- David Nesta Marley
- Known as
- Ziggy Marley
- Born in
- Kingston, Jamaica
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Ziggy Marley: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Ziggy's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Libra
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 →Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Ziggy Marley's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 17, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Ziggy Marley was born on October 17, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Ziggy Marley's birth date, October 17, 1968, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 6 means →What stands out in Ziggy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Ziggy Marley's date-only chart is Jupiter sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Ziggy Marley combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Diplomat.
Ziggy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Leo or Virgo 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
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune0.0° to 1.2° orb
Ziggy’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersextileNeptune0.4° to 0.6° orb
Ziggy’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileJupiter0.6° to 1.6° orb
Ziggy’s affections open doors for their growth.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto0.7° to 0.8° orb
stableVenussextilePluto1.3° to 2.5° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.4° to 2.5° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.9° to 3.0° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.4° to 5.5° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus6.5° to 6.7° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.3° to 7.4° orb
stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.4° to 7.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Ziggy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 0°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 28°02′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 20°25′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 29°28′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 13°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros sextile Mercury 0.5°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 1.1°
- Eros trine Saturn 1.5°
- Hygiea opposition Uranus 1.7°
- Ceres conjunction Venus 2.3°
- Black Moon Lilith square Mars 2.6°
- Ceres conjunction Neptune 2.9°
Ziggy’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Venus, Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Mars, Jupiter, Pluto; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Ziggy’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, 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.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Jupiter 0.2°
- Mars biquintile Saturn 0.3°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun semi-sextile Neptune 0.7°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.3°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.9°
Ziggy’s family here
One relative of Ziggy Marley also has a chart on AsterNym.
More people like Ziggy
Other composers
- Marc Anthony1968
- Ben Harper1969
- Noel Gallagher1967
- Brad Paisley1972
- Darius Rucker1966
- Marilyn Manson1969
Born in Jamaica
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- Usain BoltJamaican sprinter
- Afua CooperJamaican-born Canadian multidisciplinary scholar, artist, and academic (born 1957)
- Sean PaulJamaican dancehall singer and rapper
- Matt PeartJamaican-born American football offensive tackle
- Marlon JamesJamaican novelist
More charts like Ziggy’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Snoop DoggAmerican rapper
- George WeahPresident of Liberia from 2018 to 2024
- Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharIndian-American astrophysicist
Born in Monkey years
- Charoen SirivadhanabhakdiThai businessman
- André EstevesBrazilian businessman
- Vladimir LisinRussian businessman
Also born on October 17
- Eminem1972
- Arthur Miller1915
- Rita Hayworth1918
- Kimi Räikkönen1979
- Mae Jemison1956
- Wyclef Jean1969
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Zach LaVineAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Jalen BrunsonAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- OG AnunobyBritish basketball player (born 1997)
Other Libra Monkey charts
- Finn RussellScottish rugby union player
- Isack HadjarFrench-Algerian racing driver
- Gabriel BortoletoBrazilian racing driver
- Linda HamiltonAmerican actress
Other Gilded Diplomats
- Isaiah FoskeyAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Dillon GabrielAmerican football quarterback
- Simi FehokoAmerican football cornerback
- Zak ZinterAmerican football player (born 1999)
Famous people with Life Path 6
- Jane WymanAmerican actress
- Nastassja KinskiGerman actress
- Fred AstaireAmerican dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer
From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Ziggy’s cards
Computed from October 17, 1968. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The LoversAsterNym identity card
The Gilded DiplomatWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
6 · Guardian♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Ziggy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q199418 (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 Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Ziggy Marley at Wikipedia, ziggymarley.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, 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 Ziggy Marley.
Quick answers about Ziggy Marley’s chart
- How old is Ziggy Marley?
- Ziggy Marley is 58 years old, born October 17, 1968 in Kingston, Jamaica.
- What zodiac sign is Ziggy Marley?
- Ziggy Marley is a Libra: born October 17, 1968, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Ziggy Marley's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 17, 1968 birth.
- What is Ziggy Marley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
- What is Ziggy Marley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Ziggy Marley's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 13°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Ziggy Marley's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
