Famous birth charts · Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt’s chart in full
Born February 17, 1957, Morden, Manitoba, Canada. 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 Aquarius
The Free Thinker. Original, free and humane.
28°50′
Moon in Libra
The Peacemaker. Needing harmony.
11°42′
Mercury in Aquarius
The Inventor. The original thinker.
7°05′
Venus in Aquarius
The Kindred Spirit. Friend first, lover too.
14°53′
Mars in Taurus
The Stayer. Slow to start, impossible to stop.
12°24′
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Jupiter in Libraretrograde
The Connector. Faith in fairness.
0°11′
Saturn in Sagittarius
The Wise Teacher. Belief that has been tested.
13°20′
Uranus in Leoretrograde
3°57′
Neptune in Scorpioretrograde
2°32′
Pluto in Leoretrograde
29°13′
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 Scorpio
The direction her life grows in: Scorpio, intense and private.
23°40′
Chiron in Aquarius
In Aquarius, Chiron is the ache of not quite fitting in, and a gift for making room for every outsider.
13°14′
Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius
In Aquarius, Lilith is the outsider’s streak, at its best when it does not fit in.
19°00′
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 identity, her mind and her heart (the Sun, Mercury and Venus) gather in Aquarius, and that part of life draws her attention first.
T-square
Two planets pull against each other, and a third stands at right angles to both, where the strain gathers.
In her chart, her mind (Mercury in Aquarius) and her independence (Uranus in Leo) face each other across the wheel, and her imagination (Neptune in Scorpio) takes the strain: the part of her that works hardest.
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.
The Sun opposition Pluto almost exact at 0.4°
Nothing about her is halfway: she insists on running her own life, and the struggle makes her formidable.
Mars quincunx Saturn almost exact at 0.9°
When to push and when to wait takes constant judging, and she learns timing the hard way.
The Sun quincunx Jupiter close at 1.4°
She keeps fitting her ambitions to her purpose, and some big plans have to wait.
Uranus square Neptune close at 1.4°
The urge for change and the longing for ideals clash, and she lives with both.
Venus sextile Saturn close at 1.5°
Loyal in love: she chooses carefully, and what she builds with people lasts.
Venus square Mars close at 2.5°
In love she wants tenderness and a chase at once, and her relationships are rarely calm.
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Mercury opposition Uranus wide at 3.1°
Her mind runs ahead of the conversation: she says the unexpected thing, and not everyone is ready to hear it.
Neptune sextile Pluto wide at 3.3°
A quiet hunger for meaning under everyday life, and a tolerance for great change.
The Sun trine Neptune wide at 3.7°
Imagination and identity work together: she can become a character, a mood or an idea, and make others believe in it.
Jupiter sextile Uranus wide at 3.8°
Sudden openings: she spots new chances early and jumps at them.
Mercury square Neptune wide at 4.5°
Facts and dreams blur together in her mind: wonderful for stories, harder when details matter.
The Sun square North Node wide at 5.2°
Being herself and growing ask for different things, and her biggest steps forward come when she stretches past her habits.
Mercury square Mars wide at 5.3°
Sharp words and a sharp mind: she argues well, sometimes too well, and a debate is a kind of sport to her.
Pluto square North Node wide at 5.6°
Old attachments hold her back from the way forward, and she grows by letting some things go.
Mercury conjunction Venus wide at 7.8°
Words with charm in them: she has an ear for a beautiful phrase, and people like listening to her.
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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