Famous birth charts · Robert Redford
Robert Redford’s chart in full
Born August 18, 1936, Santa Monica, California, 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.
25°39′
Moon in Virgo
The Mender. Care in the details.
15°08′
Mercury in Virgo
The Analyst. The editor’s eye.
17°44′
Venus in Virgo
The Quiet Romantic. Love in small attentions.
9°33′
Mars in Leo
The Leader. Courage with an audience.
5°26′
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Jupiter in Sagittarius
The Globetrotter. The horizon is the point.
14°40′
Saturn in Piscesretrograde
The Kind Realist. Boundaries for a big heart.
20°54′
Uranus in Taurusretrograde
9°35′
Neptune in Virgo
15°43′
Pluto in Cancer
27°45′
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 his life grows in: Capricorn, ambitious and patient.
2°07′
Chiron in Gemini
In Gemini, Chiron is an old fear of not being heard, which becomes a gift for finding the words others lack.
22°14′
Black Moon Lilith in Libra
In Libra, Lilith is the one who stops keeping the peace at any price.
24°56′
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 his chart, his feelings, his mind, his heart and his imagination (the Moon, Mercury, Venus and Neptune) gather in Virgo, and that part of life drew his 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.
Venus trine Uranus exact at 0.0°
He loved the unusual: original taste, unexpected friendships and a style all his own.
The Moon square Jupiter almost exact at 0.5°
His feelings ran large: he wanted more comfort, more company and more of everything than any one day gave.
The Moon conjunction Neptune almost exact at 0.6°
Feelings without edges: other people’s sorrow and joy reached him as if they were his own.
Jupiter square Neptune close at 1.1°
His hopes ran ahead of what was real, and he learned to check a beautiful idea against the facts.
Mercury conjunction Neptune close at 2.0°
A poet’s mind: he heard what went unsaid, and his best ideas came from somewhere hard to explain.
The Moon conjunction Mercury close at 2.6°
He thought with his feelings: memory, mood and wit came together, and his words gave away what he felt.
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Mercury square Jupiter wide at 3.1°
Big ideas and loose details: he thought on a large scale, and the small print was where things got away from him.
Mercury opposition Saturn wide at 3.2°
He doubted his own ideas before anyone else could, and so he checked every one twice.
Mars square Uranus wide at 4.2°
Restless and quick to rebel: he pushed against limits, and sudden decisions came with the territory.
Venus square Jupiter wide at 5.1°
He loved too much of a good thing: pleasure, praise and grand gestures ran past what one life could use.
Saturn opposition Neptune wide at 5.2°
The dream and the hard work seldom agreed on terms: his discipline and his imagination asked different things of him.
Uranus trine Neptune wide at 6.1°
Change and idealism went together: new ideas came wrapped in dreams of a better world.
Venus conjunction Neptune wide at 6.2°
Romance without limits: he fell for ideals as much as people, and his taste ran to the dreamy and the beautiful.
Jupiter square Saturn wide at 6.2°
Growth and caution kept checking each other: he moved forward in bursts, then paused to consolidate.
The Sun trine North Node wide at 6.5°
The direction his life took suited him: being himself and growing went hand in hand.
Saturn trine Pluto wide at 6.9°
Endurance: he could work through hard times, and what he built survived pressure.
Mars conjunction Pluto wide at 7.7°
Concentrated force: when he wanted something, he went after it with everything.
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
No air at all, so stepping back to talk a thing through took deliberate effort.
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