Christopher Nolan's Birth Chart

The Moon opened the date at 29°52′ Gemini, 0°07′ short of Cancer, and closed it at 12°05′ Cancer. A sign change on the birth date is ordinary, true of about 44% of charts born in the 1970s; this one gives Gemini just 1% of the date, after which both lights sit in their own signs, the Moon in Cancer and the Sun in Leo.

All twelve signs rose over Westminster during the date, Taurus at both midnights. Virgo and Libra held longest, 2 hours 50 minutes apiece, and Pisces and Aries briefest, 52 minutes. Astrotheme's noon falls in Libra's stretch, 10:30 AM to 1:20 PM. Leo was on the horizon at sunrise, 5:20 AM, and the Sun went down at 8:52 PM; whether the birth fell in daylight, and so the sect, is unknown.

Each feature is weighed for astrological prominence against its frequency in simulated 1970s births; all six hold through the whole date. Combust Mars is scarcest and leads, the Sun's domicile and Venus's fall tie at about one chart in 12, and the locomotive, commonest at about one chart in 6, ranks 5th. The Moon's sign change, a matter of the hour, is set out above.

The Sun ran from 6°23′ Leo to 7°20′, gaining 0°18′ a day on Mars, so the conjunction would perfect about 2.5 days after the date. Medieval authors counted a planet this deep in the solar rays as weakened; Mars never got close enough for cazimi. The Sun holds its domicile, a placement in about one chart in 12.

Venus, at 19°39′ Virgo to 20°45′, sits in its fall opposite its Pisces exaltation, found in about one chart in 12; the essential dignities calculator scores both. Speeds were brisk: six planets moved faster than average, and Neptune was the lone retrograde one.

The Moon's declination slid from 28°06′ to 26°56′ north, beyond the Sun's greatest declination of 23°26′: out of bounds all date, as in about one chart in 9. Declinations that high need the North Node within a sign of the start of Aries, and it stood at 3°02′ Pisces. The phase was balsamic, 25°14′ or more short of the Sun, as in about one chart in 8, the closing phase in Dane Rudhyar's scheme.

Of ten aspects in orb all date, Mercury square Neptune is the tightest, exact at one point and never wider than 1°26′; modern astrologers link that square to imagination outrunning the literal. In Cancer the Moon came within 0°01′ of squaring Uranus; its four other contacts, in orb at midnight, had lapsed by 10:52 AM.

Every planet lies on the 186°39′ arc from Saturn (21°27′ Taurus) forward to Neptune (28°09′ Scorpio): too wide for a bowl, which fits inside half the circle, so Marc Edmund Jones would call it a locomotive, a pattern in about one chart in 6. Moon aside, fire and earth have three planets each, Neptune alone is in water, and fixed signs hold five of nine whatever the Moon does.

With only the Leo Sun settled, the four nearest pages match on that sign, ordered by the mean gap in their Sun-to-Saturn positions from Nolan's at midday. Bill Clinton leads at 32°32′, then Roger Federer, Satya Nadella and Jennifer Lopez; no other roster entry carries Nolan's birth date.

Subtracting Lahiri's ayanamsa, 23°26′, moves the Sun and Mars back to Karka (Cancer), Venus to Simha (Leo), Saturn to Mesha (Aries) and Uranus to Kanya (Virgo). The Moon stays in Mithuna (Gemini), from 6°26′ to 18°38′, so the date alone fixes the Vedic Moon sign.

Saturn first came back to its midday birth place in one direct pass on May 18, 2000; Jupiter has returned four times, last on October 1, 2017. Saturn moved only 0°03′ over the birth date, so the missing hour shifts these moments by hours, not days.

Britain kept British Standard Time, an hour ahead of GMT, from October 1968 to October 1971, so the date opened at 23:00 UTC on July 29, 1970. Positions for the City of Westminster, 51°29′ N, 0°08′ W, come from precise astronomical calculations, and aspects were sampled every 10 minutes of the local date.