Novelist
Jeanette Winterson
Author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, written at twenty five about a Pentecostal childhood in Lancashire. Born in Manchester and adopted as a baby.
Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
- Born
- 1959-08-27, Manchester, EnglandA Thursday
- At birth
- Sun in Virgo, Moon in Gemini
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1959-08-27, Manchester, England · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Londonthe zone used then
Europe/LondonThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 3°25′ | Direct |
| Moon | Gemini | 15°41′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Leo | 15°43′ | Direct |
| Venus | Virgo | 10°58′ | Retrograde |
| Mars | Virgo | 23°54′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 24°14′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 0°31′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Leo | 17°45′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 4°38′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Virgo | 3°55′ | Direct |
Jeanette Winterson is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Jeanette Winterson was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.