Sydney Pollack’s birth chart
Film directorBorn July 1, 1934, Lafayette, Indiana, United StatesDied May 26, 2008
Warm, loyal and fiercely caring.
- SunCancerThe Protector
- MoonPiscesThe Tide
- VenusGeminiThe Charmer
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Cancer, the Protector
Warm, loyal and fiercely caring. Happiest looking after the people who feel like family. Imagination and identity worked together: he could become a character, a mood or an idea, and make others believe in it.
The Sun sextile Neptune (almost exact at 0.9°)
What he needed
Moon in Pisces, the Tide
Feels the mood of a room from the doorway. Comfort comes from water, music, softness and kindness. His feelings and his imagination pulled in different directions: he lived between what was real and what he longed for.
The Moon opposition Neptune (close at 2.1°)
How he loved
Venus in Gemini, the Charmer
Loves with words and wit. Needs a partner to talk with late into the night. He loved the dream of a person, and the real one had to compete with it.
Venus square Neptune (wide at 6.1°)
How he thought
Mercury in Cancer, the Remembering Mind
Thinks with feeling and remembers everything that mattered. Speaks kindly and reads between the lines. He thought like a detective: nothing was taken at face value, and he remembered everything.
Mercury conjunction Pluto (almost exact at 0.3°)
What drove him
Mars in Gemini, the Multitasker
Busy, versatile and sharp. Gets moving through talk, travel and a steady supply of new plans. Big drive and big confidence: he went after large goals, and his enthusiasm carried others along.
Mars trine Jupiter (wide at 6.4°)
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his identity, his mind and his intensity (the Sun, Mercury and Pluto) gather in Cancer, and that part of life drew his attention first. No fire at all, so the bold first move came by choice rather than by instinct.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Sydney Pollack was born five days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 73% lit, in Pisces. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Sunday, nine days after the June solstice.
Mercury retrograde
Mercury was retrograde all the day Sydney Pollack was born, as it was on 66 days of 1934. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Sydney Pollack, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1993 and 1994, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1964. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Cancer
You and Sydney Pollack
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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.
Sydney Pollack’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
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See allQuestions about his chart
What is Sydney Pollack’s zodiac sign?
Cancer. Sydney Pollack was born on July 1, 1934, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Warm, loyal and fiercely caring. Happiest looking after the people who feel like family.
What is Sydney Pollack’s Moon sign?
Pisces, the Tide. Feels the mood of a room from the doorway. Comfort comes from water, music, softness and kindness.
What is Sydney Pollack’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 1, 1934. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Sydney Pollack’s Venus sign?
Gemini, the Charmer. Loves with words and wit. Needs a partner to talk with late into the night.
How does your chart compare with Sydney Pollack’s?
Set your chart beside Sydney Pollack’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 Sydney Pollack’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Arthur from Westchester County north of NYC, USA, at Arthur@NYCArthur.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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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