Famous birth charts · Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx’s chart in full
Born August 22, 1935, Norwich, Connecticut, United States. The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
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The chart, fact by fact
Planets
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The ten bodies astrology reads: the Sun, the Moon and eight planets. The planet says which part of a person it speaks for, the sign says how that part behaves, and the house says where in life it shows.
Sun in Leo
The Bright One. Warm, proud and generous.
28°37′
Moon in Gemini
The Talker. Feeling by talking.
17°11′
Mercury in Virgo
The Analyst. The editor’s eye.
10°42′
Venus in Virgoretrograde
The Quiet Romantic. Love in small attentions.
22°21′
Mars in Scorpio
The Strategist. Will under a still surface.
13°55′
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Jupiter in Scorpio
The Researcher. Faith in what lies beneath.
15°57′
Saturn in Piscesretrograde
The Kind Realist. Boundaries for a big heart.
7°29′
Uranus in Taurusretrograde
5°28′
Neptune in Virgo
13°43′
Pluto in Cancer
26°31′
Beyond the planets
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Points read beside the planets. The rising sign, or Ascendant, is the sign coming up over the eastern horizon at the minute of birth: the first impression. The Midheaven is the highest point of the sky: career and public life. The North Node is where the Moon’s path crosses the Sun’s: the direction a life grows in. Chiron, a small body between Saturn and Uranus, is a lifelong sore spot and the gift it leaves for others. Black Moon Lilith, where the Moon’s orbit swings farthest from Earth, is what a person keeps untamed.
North Node in Capricorn
The direction her life grows in: Capricorn, ambitious and patient.
21°30′
Chiron in Gemini
In Gemini, Chiron is an old fear of not being heard, which becomes a gift for finding the words others lack.
15°43′
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo
In Virgo, Lilith is a set of private standards, kept for their own sake and not to please.
14°23′
The rising sign and the Midheaven need the birth time to the minute, so they are left out.
Patterns
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When several aspects lock into one shape, such as a triangle or a cross, the planets in it act together, and the shape says how: easily, under strain, or with one planet as the focus.
Stellium
Three or more planets gathered in one sign or one house, so that part of the chart speaks loudest.
In her chart, her mind, her heart and her imagination (Mercury, Venus and Neptune) gather in Virgo, and that part of life draws her attention first.
Aspects by strength
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An aspect is a set angle between two bodies in the sky at birth. Some angles flow, some rub, and some fuse two bodies into one. The number is how far the angle is from exact: the smaller it is, the stronger the link.
Only the aspects that held from the first minute of the day to the last are shown; each figure is for noon.
Mars sextile Neptune almost exact at 0.2°
She works for ideals: her drive comes alive for a cause, a role or a dream.
Venus trine North Node almost exact at 0.9°
Love and friendship move her forward: the people she cares for help her find her way.
Saturn sextile Uranus close at 2.0°
Old and new sit well together: she can change things without throwing out what works.
Mars conjunction Jupiter close at 2.0°
Enthusiasm at full speed: she charges at life with confidence, and setbacks slow her only briefly.
Jupiter sextile Neptune close at 2.2°
Faith and imagination together: she believes in people and ideals, and that belief is catching.
Mercury conjunction Neptune close at 3.0°
A poet’s mind: she hears what goes unsaid, and her best ideas come from somewhere hard to explain.
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Mercury sextile Mars wide at 3.2°
A quick, direct mind: she makes decisions fast and says what she means.
Mercury opposition Saturn wide at 3.2°
She doubts her own ideas before anyone else can, and so she checks every one twice.
Venus sextile Pluto wide at 4.2°
She loves with depth and loyalty, and the bonds she forms change both people.
Pluto opposition North Node wide at 5.0°
Old attachments hold her back from the way forward, and she grows by letting some things go.
Mercury trine Uranus wide at 5.2°
A quick, original mind: ideas arrive in flashes, and she sees answers others miss.
Saturn opposition Neptune wide at 6.2°
The dream and the hard work seldom agree on terms: her discipline and her imagination ask different things of her.
Mars trine Saturn wide at 6.4°
Her drive and her discipline work together easily: she can push hard and keep going.
The Sun trine Uranus wide at 6.8°
Independence comes easily: she does things her own way, and people find it refreshing rather than rude.
The Sun opposition Saturn wide at 8.9°
Self-belief comes slowly and has to be earned, one result at a time, and every result counts.
Chart signature
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The chart’s balance at a glance: which of the four elements and three modes it leans on, which body is most connected, and any body standing alone.
Elements
Modes
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