PROFILE · FILM & STAGE
Meryl Streep
Mary Louise Streep
actor
Born 22 June 1949 · Summit, New Jersey, United States · 40.72° N, 74.36° WX
Source: Birth time not documented in publicly accessible records
About this chart
No birth time is documented for this person. The chart therefore shows planetary positions in their signs, the slow aspects between them, and the generational context — but not house placements, the Ascendant, or the Midheaven, which require an accurate birth time. The Moon's sign carries a ±6° margin: if it falls near a sign boundary, the sign could vary. Positions for all other planets are reliable.
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The sky at birth
No birth time is documented for Meryl Streep. The Ascendant, Midheaven, and house positions cannot be determined. The planetary positions below are calculated for noon local time and are accurate to within a fraction of a degree for the slow-moving planets. The Moon's position carries a margin of approximately ±7°.
The Sun is at 0°54' Cancer. The Moon is at 16°54' Taurus (noon position, ±7° margin). Mercury is at 10°23' Gemini. Venus is at 18°40' Cancer. Mars is at 8°58' Gemini. Jupiter is at 0°30' Aquarius R. Saturn is at 1°35' Virgo. Uranus is at 0°44' Cancer. Neptune is at 12°23' Libra R. Pluto is at 14°51' Leo.
The Sun at 0°54' Cancer forms conjunction with Uranus at 0°44' Cancer (0°10') — the tightest major aspect in the chart and one of the closest Sun-Uranus conjunctions in the Astrian collection. The Sun-Uranus conjunction sextiles Saturn at 1°35' Virgo (Sun-Saturn 0°41', Uranus-Saturn 0°51'), creating a tight triangular pattern across three signs. Mercury at 10°23' Gemini conjoins Mars at 8°58' Gemini (1°25'). Mercury trines Neptune at 12°23' Libra retrograde (2°00'). The Moon at 16°54' Taurus squares Pluto at 14°51' Leo (2°03'). Neptune sextiles Pluto (2°28'). Mars trines Neptune (3°25').
The engine also identifies the following tight minor aspects involving asteroids and calculated points: jupiter quincunx uranus (0.24° sep); sun quincunx jupiter (0.40° sep); saturn conjunction ceres (0.42° sep).
The Sun-Uranus conjunction in Cancer, sextile Saturn in Virgo, forms the base of a yod (Finger of God) pattern. Jupiter at 0°30' Aquarius retrograde receives quincunxes from both the Sun-Uranus conjunction (0°24') and Saturn (1°05'), converging at the apex. This is one of the tightest yod configurations in the collection.
Astronomical context
Those born between approximately 1939 and 1957 carried Pluto in Leo. This generation arrived during or shortly after the Second World War, grew up during the Cold War's formative decades, and came of age alongside the rise of television, the civil rights movement, rock and roll, and the first wave of postwar consumer culture. They inherited a world that had been broken by total war and was rebuilding itself through mass media, suburbanization, and the long economic expansion of the 1950s and 1960s.
In astrological tradition, Pluto in Leo is associated with collective transformation of the domains that sign governs: creative self-expression, performance, authority, the relationship between individual charisma and collective power, and the nature of fame itself. Leo is the sign of the stage, the sovereign, the heart's declaration. Pluto's transit through Leo — roughly coinciding with the postwar era — is read, symbolically, as a period when the structures of individual expression and creative authority were subjected to deep, irreversible transformation. The generation that carries this placement grew up in a culture that was simultaneously inventing modern celebrity and beginning to dismantle the institutions that produced it. The symbolic reading is correlative, not causal.
Others in the Astrian collection born under this configuration include John Lennon (1940), Bob Marley (1945), Freddie Mercury (1946), and David Bowie (1947). Meryl Streep, born in 1949, belongs to the middle years of this generational wave.
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Symbolic reading
The following describes what classical astrological tradition associates with these configurations. Astrian does not apply these descriptions to the person's biography.
The Sun at 0°54' Cancer is the most prominent structural feature of this chart. Without a documented birth time, there is no Ascendant or Midheaven — the reading is confined to planetary positions by sign and the aspects between planets.
The Moon at 16°54' Taurus represents the noon position; the actual placement falls within approximately 7° on either side. If born early in the day, the Moon could be in the low teens of Taurus; if born late, in the low twenties. The Moon's sign placement in Taurus is secure for the entire day.
Mercury at 10°23' Gemini, Venus at 18°40' Cancer, and Mars at 8°58' Gemini complete the personal planet picture.
### The Sun-Uranus conjunction and the yod
The chart's most extraordinary feature is the Sun-Uranus conjunction at 0°10' — a near-exact fusion of the two bodies in the earliest degree of Cancer. The Sun represents the core identity, the central organizing principle of the personality. Uranus represents originality, the unexpected, the refusal of received form, and the capacity to perceive structures that convention cannot see. At 0°10', these two planets are functionally merged. In the tradition, a Sun-Uranus conjunction this tight reads as an identity that is constitutionally original — not rebellious by choice but different by structure.
The conjunction falls at the very beginning of Cancer — the cardinal water sign associated with instinct, emotional intelligence, adaptation to environment, and the protective pull of origins. Uranian originality operating through Cancer's register does not reject feeling; it radicalizes it, perceiving emotional nuance at frequencies others miss.
The Sun-Uranus pair sextiles Saturn at 1°35' Virgo (Sun-Saturn 0°41', Uranus-Saturn 0°51'). Saturn governs structure, discipline, and the mastery of craft. The sextile is a cooperative aspect — the identity's radical originality is naturally supported by, and oriented toward, structural precision. Virgo adds its own register of analytical exactness and discriminating attention to detail.
A parallel life
The following are verified biographical facts. No connection to the natal chart is implied.
Mary Louise Streep was born on 22 June 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, the eldest of three children. Her father, Harry William Streep Jr., was a pharmaceutical executive; her mother, Mary Wolf Wilkinson, had worked as a commercial artist and art editor before raising the family. The household was middle-class suburban. She grew up in Bernardsville, a small town in the hills of central New Jersey.
She began singing as a child — her mother arranged opera lessons when she was twelve — and by high school she was performing in musicals and discovering that she could mimic voices, accents, and physical mannerisms with unusual precision. She studied at Vassar College, graduating in 1971, and enrolled at the Yale School of Drama, where she received her MFA in 1975. At Yale she appeared in over forty productions in three years, absorbing a classical training in voice, movement, and text that would underpin every role that followed.
She moved to New York and within two years had appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in Shakespeare in the Park productions for Joseph Papp's Public Theater. Her screen debut came in Julia (1977), a small role followed almost immediately by The Deer Hunter (1978), which earned her first Academy Award nomination. She won her first Oscar the following year for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), playing a mother who leaves her family — a role she substantially rewrote in collaboration with the director, insisting that the character's motivations be rendered with greater complexity than the screenplay provided.
Sophie's Choice (1982) brought her second Oscar. She learned Polish for the role, adding it to the German she had studied for Holocaust (1978, television) and the Danish-accented English she would use in Out of Africa (1985). The linguistic precision became a defining characteristic: across more than fifty films, she mastered accents ranging from Australian (A Cry in the Dark, 1988) to Midwestern American (A Prairie Home Companion, 2006) to British received pronunciation (The Iron Lady, 2011) to Italian (The Bridges of Madison County
This profile presents the sky at the birth of Meryl Streep and verified facts of their biography. Astrian does not claim that astrology has predictive capacity or that the natal chart determines the trajectory of a life. Astrology is a symbolic system with 2,500 years of literature. Its capacity for retrospective description does not imply explanatory capacity.
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