Actress

Claire Danes

Water claims four of her ten planets, fire three, air two and earth a single one. Water takes the temperature of a situation and fire acts on it; the element that would hold a position regardless is nearly absent. Danes is an American actress and the record names Homeland and My So-Called Life.

The Sun sits at twenty two degrees of Aries with Mars near the start of the same sign, and the Moon answers from Libra at twenty four, nearly across the chart from the Sun. Aries goes at a thing directly; Libra weighs it from the other side. An actress whose two named parts sit a generation apart needs the Aries half to commit and the Libra half to watch herself doing it.

Venus sits at an uneasy angle to Pluto at three tenths of a degree, taste permanently just out of true with concentrated force, and the Sun stands at a strained angle to Saturn at half. Jupiter sits on the final half degree of Cancer. All four of the slow planets were retrograde at her birth, which leaves the whole heavy end of the chart facing the other way while the personal planets run forward. Nothing here forms a named pattern. For an actress, taste out of true with force and identity strained against limit is the equipment a difficult part gets played with.

Jupiter stood again on its Cancer birth degree on 27 June 2026, at forty seven. Cancer asks what was kept safe rather than what was reached for, and three circuits precede it. In a record that names one part from her teens and one from her thirties, what was kept safe across the gap is the useful question. Four planets in water with one in earth describes a performer who registers everything and has very little in the chart that settles any of it. Her Moon sits late in Libra at noon, close enough to the next sign that it may have reached Scorpio, which leaves the private half open between weighing a thing and refusing to show it. A Sun and Moon almost across the chart from each other, in signs that approach a problem from opposite ends, is the structure worth keeping from this one.

Born
1979-04-12, Manhattan, USAA Thursday
At birth
Sun in Aries, Moon in Libra
Nationality
United States
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1979-04-12, Manhattan, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/New_Yorkthe zone used then

The chart

Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunAries22°11′Direct
MoonLibra24°01′Direct
MercuryPisces27°00′Direct
VenusPisces17°25′Direct
MarsAries4°23′Direct
JupiterCancer29°29′Direct
SaturnVirgo7°41′Retrograde
UranusScorpio20°05′Retrograde
NeptuneSagittarius20°23′Retrograde
PlutoLibra17°43′Retrograde

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