Meghan Markle

When Meghan Markle was eleven, she saw a television commercial for dish soap that said women all over America were fighting greasy pots and pans. She wrote letters to the manufacturer, to the lawyer Gloria Allred and to Hillary Clinton, objecting to the idea that cleaning was women's work. Within a month the ad's wording was changed from "women" to "people." It was an early sign of a lifelong habit: speaking up, in writing, and expecting to be heard.

She was born on August 4, 1981, in Los Angeles, at 4:46 in the morning, as her birth certificate shows. Leo holds her Sun, with Mercury also in Leo, both in the first house, and Cancer is her rising sign. Leo is the sign of the performer, warm, dramatic and drawn to the spotlight, and a first-house Leo Sun puts identity on public display. Cancer rising adds sensitivity, a protective instinct and deep attachment to family.

Her Moon is in Libra in the third house, which governs communication, writing and siblings, joined there by Jupiter and Saturn in Libra and Venus in Virgo. A Libra Moon seeks fairness and harmony, and the third house concerns words and messages. Markle has expressed herself repeatedly through writing and talk: a lifestyle blog, The Tig, a podcast called Archetypes and a stream of interviews and personal essays. Saturn there also suggests difficult relationships with siblings, and her estrangement from her half-siblings became public in painful detail.

Her father, Thomas Markle, was a television lighting director, and her mother, Doria Ragland, was a social worker and yoga instructor. She studied theater and international studies at Northwestern University and worked for years as a struggling actress, including a stint as a briefcase model on Deal or No Deal, before landing the role of the paralegal Rachel Zane on the legal drama Suits in 2011.

Mars in Cancer sits in her twelfth house, a placement associated with hidden struggles and anger directed inward. In 2016 she began dating Prince Harry, and they married at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018. She later described her time as a working royal as deeply isolating, and in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey she said she had experienced suicidal thoughts during that period.

Pluto in Libra falls in her fourth house of home and family, describing upheaval and transformation in family life. In 2020 the couple stepped back from royal duties and moved to California, where they are raising their two children, Archie and Lilibet. She has pursued legal action against British newspapers over her privacy, winning a case against the Mail on Sunday.

Neptune and Uranus in her fifth house, the domain of creativity and self-expression, point to a restless search for new forms of expression. She returned to television with the Netflix lifestyle series With Love, Meghan in 2025 and launched a lifestyle brand.

The Leo Sun in her first house made her a figure no one could ignore; the Libra Moon in the house of communication made sure she would always tell her side of the story.

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