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Wes Craven’s birth chart

FilmmakerBorn August 2, 1939, Cleveland, Ohio, United StatesDied August 30, 2015

Big-hearted and bright.

  • SunLeoThe Bright One
  • MoonPiscesor Aquarius
  • VenusLeoor Cancer

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Leo, the Bright One

    Big-hearted and bright. Brings warmth into a room and loves to see other people do well. His confidence came easily and spread: he thought big, and other people wanted to come along.

    The Sun trine Jupiter (almost exact at 0.7°)

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Pisces or Aquarius, the Tide

    Soaks up the feelings around him. Needs gentleness, music and time alone to come back to himself.

    For a birth before 12:42 a.m., his Moon was in Aquarius.

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Leo or Cancer, the Romantic

    Loves with warmth, pride and a generous heart. Wants romance, admiration and loyalty in return. Love felt like something to be earned, and he held back until he was sure of it.

    Venus square Saturn (close at 1.1°) · For a birth before 10:12 a.m., his Venus was in Cancer.

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Leo, the Storyteller

    Confident, warm and persuasive. Likes an audience and has the words to keep one. His mind ran ahead of the conversation: he said the unexpected thing, and not everyone was ready to hear it.

    Mercury square Uranus (close at 1.1°)

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Capricorn, the Achiever

    Determined, controlled and built for the long climb. Works patiently toward the top. In love he wanted tenderness and a chase at once, and his relationships were rarely calm.

    Venus opposition Mars (wide at 3.3°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    Mars is the hub of his chart: it takes part in six of its aspects, more than any other body, so his drive touched everything else in it. No air at all, so stepping back to talk a thing through took deliberate effort.

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The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    Wes Craven was born two days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 95% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Wednesday, 41 days after the June solstice.

  • Mercury retrograde

    Mercury was retrograde all the day Wes Craven was born, as it was on 67 days of 1939. How often the famous were

  • Mars retrograde

    Mars was retrograde all the day Wes Craven was born, as it was on 62 days of 1939. How often the famous were

  • Saturn return

    For Wes Craven, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1998 and 1999, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1969. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Leo

You and Wes Craven

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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.

Wes Craven’s chart in full

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Questions about his chart

What is Wes Craven’s zodiac sign?

Leo. Wes Craven was born on August 2, 1939, with the Sun in Leo, the Bright One. Big-hearted and bright. Brings warmth into a room and loves to see other people do well.

What is Wes Craven’s Moon sign?

Pisces or Aquarius. The Moon moved from Aquarius into Pisces at 12:42 a.m. that day, local time: in Aquarius for a birth before then, in Pisces for one after.

What is Wes Craven’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 August 2, 1939. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

How does your chart compare with Wes Craven’s?

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

Photo: Bob Bekian from Thousand Oaks Ca., USA, 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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