Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley (born David Nesta Marley; October 17, 1968, Kingston, Jamaica), aged 57, 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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they are an 
Earth Monkey, with 
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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 1880
2022
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Ziggy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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 same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Ziggy sits
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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.
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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. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
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. Traditional Monkey readings emphasise ingenuity, wit and the ability to find unconventional solutions to problems others have given up on. The Chinese almanacs describe the Monkey as the cleverest sign in the cycle, playful and quick. The corresponding caution in the tradition is mischief, and a trick played one time too many on the wrong person.
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. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
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
No documented birth time exists for Ziggy Marley, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 6° Leo or Virgo 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.
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
Ziggy’s growth and depths act as one.
stableVenussextilePluto1.3° to 2.5° orb
Ziggy’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.3° orb
Ziggy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn1.4° to 2.5° orb
Ziggy’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSunoppositionSaturn1.9° to 3.0° orb
Ziggy’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.4° to 5.5° orb
Ziggy’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus6.5° to 6.7° orb
Ziggy’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranusconjunctionPluto7.3° to 7.4° orb
Ziggy’s need for freedom and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarsconjunctionPluto7.4° to 7.9° orb
Ziggy’s drive and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 0°03′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Ziggy may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresScorpio 28°02′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Ziggy is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosSagittarius 20°25′ (moves 0.55° 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 Ziggy attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Pisces 29°28′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Pisces is read as health that rises and falls with what is absorbed from others. The reading has Ziggy needing solitude to reset.
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 13°36′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Gemini is read as the part of Ziggy that says the unsayable and does not take it back.
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.
- 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°
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°).
Ziggy’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. ♀ 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
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Ziggy is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
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 Ziggy’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.
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 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.
- 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°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Ziggy Marley, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
Ziggy’s family here
One relative of Ziggy Marley also has a chart on AsterNym.
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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Ziggy’s cards
Every card is computed from October 17, 1968, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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
No birth time is on public record for Ziggy Marley, 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
Ziggy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q199418, 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 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. 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 Ziggy Marley.
Quick answers about Ziggy Marley’s chart
- How old is Ziggy Marley?
- Ziggy Marley is 57 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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are an Earth Monkey.
- 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 time was Ziggy Marley 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 Ziggy Marley's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the October 17, 1968 birth date.
- What is Ziggy Marley's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 17, 1968 birth date.
- 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.
