JK Rowling: The Perfect Writer’s Chart
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| JK Rowling – imagination, talent and wit. |
She’s the first person to make a billion by writing books. She’s ignited the imaginations of about a gazillion children on every continent. She’s managed to make a Virgo cool – well, sort of.
For those of you who are not Potter fans, I’m talking about the author JK Rowling, creator of Harry Potter et al. The cool(ish) Virgo is Hermione Granger, Harry Potter’s brainy sidekick
Even without a birth time, you can see that Rowling has the perfect writer’s chart.
The full house in the writer’s sign Virgo – including Venus (art) Pluto (drive) and Uranus (wacky). Most likely her Moon is there too (writing is in her soul).
JK Rowling, July 31 1965, time unknown. Pallas in Aquarius: she’d be a super astrologer
- The spark of creative imagination, energy and self-belief from the Sun in Leo
- Jupiter in the other writer’s sign, Gemini, with the North Node (her destiny) in a very wide conjunction. Rowling’s love of trivia and jokes is evident in the books – both very Jupiter in Gemini, especially with the sextile
- Her Mercury (writing) is on the royal star, Regulus (also the name of Sirius Black’s wicked brother.), which brings fame. Mercury is also the planet associated with “boy” and Mercury on Regulus perfectly symbolises the idea of the noble boy hero – Harry Potter
- Her chart is also locked into the big planets of her generation. There’s no time for her birth, but Moon must be in Virgo near Uranus-Pluto and opposite Saturn. This gives her a real soul connection with the zeigeist
- Neptune (imagination, the collecitve) sextiles the Virgo stellium. Neptune in Scorpio is dreaming of death in one sense – and the Harry Potter books, as Rowling herself says, are all about death
- Neptune also trines that nasty Chiron-Saturn conjunction in Neptune’s own sign, Pisces. This conjunction is about pain – it is generational, but in her chart it keys in with personal planets. The Potter books are on one level an exploration of the pain of bereeavement and abandonment. Without having experienced pain, how could she have spoken so directly to the collective? Saturn-Chiron in Pisces can experience pain on a collective level
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| This is a page from her notebook. I think we see Pallas at work here. |
- And here’s a Rowling special: Pallas Athena, the asteroid of synthesising systems, is in inventive Aquarius and creates a lovely grand trine from Mars to the North Node. What does that tell us – aside from the fact that Rowling would make a good astrologer? Well, Rowling invented a whole world with its own politics, games, gizmos and gravity. (The Romans, of course, called Pallas Minerva, the goddess of wisdom. Minerva McGonagall is Harry’s head of house. Rowling had a great aunt who taught classics – I wonder if she was just a bit like Professor M?) Having a strong Pallas must help if you need to make up a whole universe.
Rowling says that she was very Hermioneish when she was at school – and with all that Virgo you can see why. So Hermione is one alter ego in the books, but so is Harry himself, who shares Rowling’s birthday and probably represents the self she would wish to be – brave, noble and courageous. Hermione is Rowling’s brains but Harry is her heart – and it is he, of course, who suffeers the greatest pain through the books.
Then there’s Ron Weasley, of course, but that is another post.
I’ve always being curious about her chart. What a wonderful way to ‘pick her brain’! Thank you for the post, I’ve enjoyed it very much. I just checked, Tolkien also has Pallas in Aquarius!
Wow! Incredible
Tolkien yay.
And when I wrote that she might have been a good astrologer, i did not realise that she has cast the odd scope. Check out this news story.
http://www.zimbio.com/J.K.+Rowling/articles/SZ0hRcZBwwR/Rare+horoscope+JK+Rowling+fetch+25K+auction
Fascinating insights as usual Christina! Thanks for sharing them…..
She is such a role model for grrrlz
She always looks so groomed. Do you think she has Libra rising?
I wish I knew what her rising sign was. Libra would put her Mars near the ASC which would key in with the piece I’m writing about the emergence of the Harry Potter series
haha I like the last sentence
I would bet that Varuna is prominent
Tell us more. Why Varuna?
She claims to be Aquarius rising on her Twitter account
If the Moon is part of your natal chart’s planetary dominants, in astrology, you are said to be a Lunarian: the driving force behind your actions is mainly the pursuit of well-being and tranquillity. Your sensitive and romantic self lives on those periods of rest during which you let your imagination wander at will. This is your way of finding inspiration and balance. Nothing is allowed to disturb your feeling of fulfilment and security within a harmonious cell, be it a family or a clan. More than other people, the Lunarian is attached to those moments during which one forgets one’s worries and lets oneself cast adrift aimlessly, with no other goal than to be lulled into an ambiance, a situation, or a perfect moment. Many people do not understand such absences and their meaning, which is to regain strength. These people readily describe you with such unflattering terms as apathy and nonchalance. Never mind! Some inspirations require surrendering as well as striking a balance derived from alternate action and passivity. Your qualities are expressed to the fullest in situations which demand familiarity and privacy. Your capacities to respect and blend into your environment is at least as valuable as some other people’s aggressive dispositions. However, you are well-advised to avoid indolence and renunciation out of laziness or indifference.
According to Astrotheme JK Rowling’s birth time is 9.10pm which gives her Aquarius rising.
I wanted to know,based on this aspects in my natal chart should I pursue the field of creative writing cause I do enjoy it but I just don’t like wasting time pursuing a career and I 16 years old and I know I probably should be worrying about this stuff and should having fun instead but really want to find that passion that makes me laugh and that connect I have with that passion is inseparable. Anywho first
My first house has uranus and neptune in it and neptune is in Aquarius while uranus is in pisces
My second house has sun and mercury in it and both sun and mercury are in pisces
Next my third house has my north node and venus in it and their both in taurus
Lastly im including my moon is in the ninth house and my moon is in scorpio
If I’m not suppose to be writer based on this what field should I pursue based on this placements also scorpio is in the 10 house