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Cormac McCarthy’s birth chart

NovelistBorn July 20, 1933, Providence, Rhode Island, United StatesDied June 13, 2023

Warm, loyal and fiercely caring.

  • SunCancerThe Protector
  • MoonCanceror Gemini
  • VenusLeoThe Romantic

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Cancer, the Protector

    Warm, loyal and fiercely caring. Happiest looking after the people who feel like family. He needed room to be himself, and any rule that fit too tightly got broken.

    The Sun square Uranus (almost exact at 0.1°)

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Cancer or Gemini, the Nest-Maker

    Feels everything and needs a safe home and close people. Remembers every kindness. Quick feelings and a quick temper: he reacted first, and his courage came from the same place as his flashes of anger.

    The Moon square Mars (close at 2.4°) · For a birth before 1:25 a.m., his Moon was in Gemini.

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Leo, the Romantic

    Loves big, loyally and warmly. Wants to adore and be adored. He loved the unusual: original taste, unexpected friendships and a style all his own.

    Venus trine Uranus (wide at 5.9°)

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Leo, the Storyteller

    Speaks with warmth and confidence and tells a great story. Thinks in big, bold ideas. He doubted his own ideas before anyone else could, and so he checked every one twice.

    Mercury opposition Saturn (close at 1.5°)

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Libra, the Negotiator

    Persuasive rather than forceful. Wins people over and stands up hardest for what is fair. His drive and his discipline worked together easily: he could push hard and keep going.

    Mars trine Saturn (wide at 6.6°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    Uranus is the hub of his chart: it takes part in four of its aspects, more than any other body, so his independence touched everything else in it.

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The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    Cormac McCarthy was born two days before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 4% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Thursday, twenty-eight days after the June solstice.

  • Mercury retrograde

    Mercury was retrograde all the day Cormac McCarthy was born, as it was on 67 days of 1933. How often the famous were

  • Saturn return

    For Cormac McCarthy, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2022, at 88: his third Saturn return, after the second in 1992. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Cancer

You and Cormac McCarthy

Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets his, and the signs you share.

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The chart

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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.

Cormac McCarthy’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about his chart

What is Cormac McCarthy’s zodiac sign?

Cancer. Cormac McCarthy was born on July 20, 1933, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Warm, loyal and fiercely caring. Happiest looking after the people who feel like family.

What is Cormac McCarthy’s Moon sign?

Cancer or Gemini. The Moon moved from Gemini into Cancer at 1:25 a.m. that day, local time: in Gemini for a birth before then, in Cancer for one after.

What is Cormac McCarthy’s rising sign?

The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on July 20, 1933. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Cormac McCarthy’s Venus sign?

Leo, the Romantic. Loves big, loyally and warmly. Wants to adore and be adored.

How does your chart compare with Cormac McCarthy’s?

Set your chart beside Cormac McCarthy’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.

Sources and credits

Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Cormac McCarthy’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: From dust jacket: "Photograph of Cormac McCarthy by David Styles", Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

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