Kurt Russell's Birth Chart

Most of the nine ranked features gather on two bodies: Jupiter, combust and domiciled in Pisces, and the Moon, domiciled in Cancer, out of bounds and the T-square's apex. The others: a lunar eclipse that week, a combust Mercury, Mars in its own sign and, last, the Ascendant margin.

In this day chart, sect favors Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter pulls two ways: Pisces is its own sign (about one chart in 8), yet the Sun, 4°28′ away, leaves it combust (about one chart in 18), which older authors read as a planet lost in the glare.

Mercury, combust at 6°03′ (about one chart in 4), has crossed into Aries while the Sun remains in Pisces; some traditional writers ignore combustion across a sign line. The Moon heads the dignity table, domiciled (about one chart in 12) and angular, though out of sect by day.

The hour comes from a birth certificate, read here through the Gauquelins' Series D, volume 10, on the CURA archive, not from an image of the certificate. The entry's five-hour zone fits Eastern Standard Time, UTC−5, which ran until April 29, 1951. Astrotheme and astro-charts.com repeat the hour on Gauquelin's authority, echoing rather than confirming it, and AstroSage gives one second earlier without a traceable source; no interview or biography was searched for another.

A later true birth keeps Cancer rising for 2 hours 21 minutes, though Mars reaches the 10th house within 10 minutes; an earlier one drops the Moon into the 2nd house within 14 minutes. The 20-minute band around a sign change holds about 33% of the 1950s sample.

Mars in Aries opposes Neptune in Libra by 6°40′, and the Moon in Cancer squares both, 1°28′ from Neptune and 5°11′ from Mars, closing a T-square, a shape present in about one chart in 6 from the 1950s. In the aspect-figure literature the apex is where the opposition's tension finds release; here that point is the chart ruler.

The Sun at 26°14′ Pisces shares the 10th house with Jupiter and Mercury. A penumbral lunar eclipse came 5.8 days after the birth; the cohort puts births within a week of any eclipse at about one chart in 6 that decade.

The Moon's declination, 26°56′ north, passes 23°26′, the Sun's limit that year, so the Moon is out of bounds (about one chart in 6). Pluto and Uranus cross the same line, Uranus by only 0°12′, within three days of turning direct.

The tightest contact, Uranus trine the Midheaven at 0°08′, rests on the recorded minute, since the Midheaven moved about 16 degrees an hour. The Sun opposes Saturn, retrograde in Virgo's closing degree, by 2°58′; the Moon trines Jupiter by 4°29′; and Saturn squares the Ascendant out of sign.

The planets split into two groups, Marc Edmund Jones's seesaw, with the wider gap spanning 153°00′. Water holds six of twelve counted points and cardinal signs seven; earth and air get one planet each, Saturn and Neptune. The third quadrant is empty.

Kurt Cobain's chart scores nearest, matching his Pisces Sun and Cancer Moon. Heath Ledger and Lewis Hamilton match on the Cancer Moon alone, Rihanna on the Pisces Sun. No other roster entry shares the birth date.

Shift every position back by Lahiri's 23°10′ and the Sun stays in Pisces at 3°03′; the Moon retreats to 24°06′ Gemini and the rising degree to 7°13′ Gemini. Mars drops to Pisces and Jupiter to Aquarius, so none of the three domiciled planets keeps its sign.

Saturn completed its first circuit back to 29°12′ Virgo on September 15, 1980. The second return needed three passes, and the retrograde one on April 19, 2010, came two days before Jupiter's 5th return, a coincidence of orbital periods.

Springfield's Wikidata coordinates, 42°06′ N, 72°32′ W, stand in for the hospital, whose 1951 address is unconfirmed. Precise astronomical calculations place the planets for 15:42 UTC on March 17, 1951, with Placidus houses; rates count simulated births spread evenly through the 1950s.