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Joan Didion’s birth chart

WriterBorn December 5, 1934, Sacramento, California, United StatesDied December 23, 2021

Open, funny and frank.

  • SunSagittariusThe Explorer
  • MoonSagittariusor Scorpio
  • VenusSagittariusThe Adventurer

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she was

    Sun in Sagittarius, the Explorer

    Open, funny and frank. Chases meaning the way other people chase money, with a map half unfolded. The self she knew and the image others saw drifted apart at times, and she worked to keep hold of the real one.

    The Sun square Neptune (close at 1.5°)

  2. What she needed

    Moon in Sagittarius or Scorpio, the Free Spirit

    Feels best with space, laughter and something to look forward to. Gets restless when fenced in. She thought with her feelings: memory, mood and wit came together, and her words gave away what she felt.

    The Moon conjunction Mercury (close at 1.9°) · For a birth before 9:53 a.m., her Moon was in Scorpio.

  3. How she loved

    Venus in Sagittarius, the Adventurer

    Warm, adventurous and hard to fence in. Falls for laughter, big ideas and wide-open plans. She loved the dream of a person, and the real one had to compete with it.

    Venus square Neptune (close at 2.6°)

  4. How she thought

    Mercury in Scorpio or Sagittarius, the Investigator

    Searching and sharp. Asks the question nobody else will and keeps the answers close. Ordinary logic and sudden insight needed constant translating, and she spent time explaining how she got there.

    Mercury quincunx Uranus (close at 1.4°) · For a birth after 10:42 p.m., her Mercury was in Sagittarius.

  5. What drove her

    Mars in Virgo, the Craftsperson

    Diligent and exact. Puts effort into doing a thing properly, step by careful step. Effort and restlessness kept catching each other off guard, and her plans changed at short notice.

    Mars quincunx Uranus (almost exact at 0.7°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    The weight of her chart sits in fire signs: instinct and enthusiasm.

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The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Joan Didion was born the day before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 1% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Wednesday, sixteen days before the December solstice.

  • Saturn return

    For Joan Didion, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 1993, at 58: her second Saturn return, after the first in 1963 and 1964. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Sagittarius

You and Joan Didion

Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets hers, 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.

Joan Didion’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about her chart

What is Joan Didion’s zodiac sign?

Sagittarius. Joan Didion was born on December 5, 1934, with the Sun in Sagittarius, the Explorer. Open, funny and frank. Chases meaning the way other people chase money, with a map half unfolded.

What is Joan Didion’s Moon sign?

Sagittarius or Scorpio. The Moon moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius at 9:53 a.m. that day, local time: in Scorpio for a birth before then, in Sagittarius for one after.

What is Joan Didion’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 December 5, 1934. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Joan Didion’s Venus sign?

Sagittarius, the Adventurer. Warm, adventurous and hard to fence in. Falls for laughter, big ideas and wide-open plans.

How does your chart compare with Joan Didion’s?

Set your chart beside Joan Didion’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 Joan Didion’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Kathleen Ballard, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.

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

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