Meryl Streep Birth Chart: The Astrology Behind Her Devil Wears Prada 2 Return
On April 29, 2026, Meryl Streep walks back into Miranda Priestly. Her natal Sun-Uranus conjunction at 0° Cancer and an exact Jupiter-Venus transit explain why this comeback already feels inevitable.
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By Sera Vane·April 30, 2026AI-assisted, editor-reviewed
On April 29, 2026, Meryl Streep walked back into Miranda Priestly. The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened in British cinemas this week, and within hours the reviews started trending — Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, all circling the same question: how is she still doing this? Streep is 76. Her hair is white. The withering glance hasn't shifted a degree in twenty years. The simplest explanation is that she is a generational talent who outworks everyone. The astrological one is more specific — and, looking at her chart this week, almost suspiciously well-timed.
Meryl Streep — Chart Snapshot
Born
June 22, 1949 — 8:05 AM, Summit, New Jersey
Sun
Cancer 0°43′ (11th house)
Moon
Taurus 14°23′ (10th house)
Rising
Leo 2°44′
Midheaven (MC)
Aries 18°40′
Signature aspect
Sun conjunct Uranus (both at 0° Cancer, orb 0.02°)
The Devil Wears Prada 2, directed by David Frankel, returned to theatres on April 29, 2026, twenty years after the original. Streep reprises Miranda Priestly opposite Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt, with Stanley Tucci and Kenneth Branagh in supporting roles. The British press picked the film up immediately — Guardian, Independent, and Telegraph reviews surged on UK trends within twenty-four hours of release, with critics focused less on the plot than on how unnervingly intact Streep's central performance is. (See the Wikipedia entry on the film for full release details and cast.)
What's astrologically interesting is the timing. The original Prada released in June 2006, while transiting Saturn was moving through Leo — her rising sign — and structuring how the public read her presence. Twenty years later, the sequel arrives as Jupiter (the planet of expansion and recognition) is within a third of a degree of her natal Venus. Whatever the studio's reasoning for picking April 29, the sky agrees. This is a Venus moment for her: applauded, well-received, and culturally amplified.
The Natal Chart: A Cancer Sun That Hides a Generational Anomaly
Streep's Sun is in Cancer at 0°43′ — the very first degree of the sign, which traditional astrology treats as the most pure expression. Cancer is the protective, family-anchored, emotionally fluent sign, and her career bears that out: she's been with husband Don Gummer since 1978 and has spoken publicly about treating motherhood as the central work of her life. Her Leo rising — the public-facing mask, the way you walk into a room — gives that Cancer warmth a stage. People often misread Streep as Leo because of the Ascendant. They're catching the entrance, not the engine.
Now, the strange part. Her Sun is in conjunction with Uranus — meaning the two bodies sit at the same degree of the zodiac, fusing their character into one signal. The orb is 0.02°, which is almost unheard-of in personality astrology. Functionally she has Sun and Uranus at the same point in the sky. Uranus is the planet of disruption, originality, and the refusal to be predicted. Most performers with a strong Uranus rebel for one phase and then settle. Streep's is welded to her core identity. She doesn't reinvent in crisis — reinvention is her resting state. That's why she can play Margaret Thatcher and a singing Greek mother in the same five-year span without it feeling like a stunt.
Her Moon sits in Taurus in the 10th house — the career angle, the visible public legacy. Taurus Moons crave stability, beauty, and craft you can touch; the 10th-house placement turns that hunger outward, into a body of work the public uses as a reference point. Mercury and Mars are conjunct in Gemini in the 11th, which gives her the dialogue-and-timing weapon every Streep monologue runs on — sharp, fast, surgically chosen. And Pluto in Leo sits right on her Ascendant, lending the magnetic, regenerative authority that makes Miranda Priestly possible in the first place. McKenna Grace shares Streep's Cancer-Sun blueprint at a different career stage; the temperament reads recognisably across the generations.
The Transit Picture: April 29, 2026
Start with the headline aspect. Transiting Jupiter is conjunct her natal Venus at 18° Cancer, with an orb of 0.31° on release day — close enough that for editorial purposes this is an exact hit. Venus rules taste, attraction, and what audiences want to be near. Jupiter rules amplification. When the two meet on someone's natal Venus, projects connected to their craft tend to be received warmly and visibly. For an actress reprising one of the most quoted female characters of the 2000s, that is, in technical terms, the right transit.
Two further aspects round out the week. Transiting Saturn is sextile her natal Mars (orb 0.18°), and transiting Uranus is trine her natal Jupiter (orb 0.32°). A sextile is the supportive 60-degree angle astrologers associate with effort that pays off; a trine is the easy-flow 120-degree angle where talent meets opportunity without resistance. Together, they describe a window where disciplined work (Saturn-Mars) and sudden expansion (Uranus-Jupiter) line up — the structural support for a comeback that doesn't feel like a Hail Mary. This is the same Jupiter-in-Cancer cycle that's also activating the May 2026 Mars-Jupiter square across the wider sky.
And there's a smaller signal that's almost too on-the-nose. Transiting Mercury is conjunct her natal North Node — the destiny-direction point in astrology, the path you're being drawn toward — at an orb of 0.04°. So her words, the press conversations, the quotes journalists pull from her this week — those are aimed at where her career is going, not where it's been. Pluto, slower-moving, is still in long dialogue with her natal Jupiter, continuing a multi-year theme of legacy and what gets passed down. Jack Nicholson's chart at 89 shows a similar late-career Pluto signature.
What This Means: Sustained Power Without the Discount
Hollywood doesn't usually let women have longevity careers. The actresses who manage it tend to share a few astrological features: an earth-sign Moon for craft endurance, a strong fixed-sign emphasis for staying power, and a Uranus contact to the personal planets so that they can update their image without losing their core. Streep has all three — the Taurus Moon, the Pluto-on-the-Ascendant fixity, the bullseye Sun-Uranus conjunction. She's not an outlier in spite of her career trajectory. She's an outlier whose chart reads exactly the way you'd expect.
But the chart isn't all gift. Her Moon is square Pluto with an orb of 0.46° — that's tight enough to count as a defining aspect. Moon-Pluto squares describe an emotional life lived under pressure: childhood patterns that demand later reckoning, the experience of feeling things at a depth that other people read as intensity, an instinct toward privacy that hardens into armor. The reason she can play grief and rage so unanswerably is that she has the internal architecture for it. She has access to those frequencies because the chart costs her something to live in.
Which is why Miranda Priestly fits this particular moment so well. Miranda is, in astrological shorthand, a Plutonic character — quietly held power, total command of the field, no need to raise a voice. Streep brings her own Pluto, conjunct her own Ascendant, into the role. The performance doesn't require a costume; she's wearing the chart. Tilda Swinton's Scorpio-Neptune shapeshifter range reads as a different solution to a similar problem. Johnny Depp's resilience chart is another. Streep's answer is to stop performing reinvention and just be the engine of it. The chart she was born with does the rest.
What is Meryl Streep's zodiac sign?
Meryl Streep is a Cancer Sun, born June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, with her Sun at the very first degree of the sign. She also has a Taurus Moon and a Leo rising, which together give the warm-but-commanding presence audiences associate with her on-screen authority.
What is special about Meryl Streep's Sun-Uranus conjunction?
Her Sun and Uranus sit at almost the exact same degree of Cancer, with an orb of just 0.02 degrees. Astrologers read this as a fusion of identity and originality — reinvention is built into her core, not something she reaches for during a crisis. It is an unusually tight aspect for any chart.
Is The Devil Wears Prada 2 actually out?
Yes. The Devil Wears Prada 2, directed by David Frankel and starring Meryl Streep alongside Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt, opened in British cinemas on April 29, 2026. Reviews from the Guardian, Independent, and Telegraph started trending on UK search within the first day of release.
Does Meryl Streep have a verified birth time?
Yes. Her birth time of 8:05 AM in Summit, New Jersey carries a Rodden rating of AA, the highest reliability category in astrology, sourced from a recorded birth certificate via AstroDatabank. That is why her rising sign and house placements can be discussed with confidence in this article.
Why does Meryl Streep keep landing major roles in her 70s, astrologically?
Three things stack up: a Taurus Moon in the 10th house gives her durable public craft, Pluto on her Ascendant lends regenerative authority, and her Sun-Uranus conjunction means she updates her image without losing her core. The 2026 Jupiter-Venus and Saturn-Mars transits add a current cultural amplification window.
