Alec Douglas-Home’s birth chart

Alec Douglas-Home's full reading

Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

1. ☉Sun in Cancer

   ♋ 9° Cancer 24'

   purpose and vitality

   They feel most alive when Alec is caring for people and places that matter to they, and purpose is tied to belonging somewhere. The tension is taking things personally when they feel unneeded. It shows up in how much better their whole day goes after they have checked in on someone they love.

2. ☽Moon in Libra

   ♎ 17° Libra 04'

   needs and habits

   They need harmony in their immediate surroundings to feel settled day to day, and a tense conversation nearby can throw off their whole afternoon. Comfort comes from pleasant company and pleasant spaces. The tension is smoothing things over before they have worked out what they actually want.

3. ☿Mercury in Gemini

   ♊ 18° Gemini 06'

   mind and voice

   Their mind moves fast across many subjects at once, and they communicate easily in almost any setting. The tension is skimming the surface of a topic and moving on before they have gone deep enough to be sure of it. It shows up as knowing a little about a great many things.

4. ♀Venus in Leo

   ♌ 24° Leo 42'

   love and values

   They love generously and openly, and they value being someone's clear favourite above almost anything else they could offer they. The tension is needing steady reassurance that Alec is still adored. It shows up as grand, thoughtful gestures and a genuine hurt when they go unnoticed.

5. ♂Mars in Libra

   ♎ 11° Libra 34'

   drive and anger

   They act diplomatically and prefer negotiation to confrontation, and their anger tends to stay buried until it is too big to ignore. The tension is avoiding conflict so consistently that resentment builds underneath the calm surface. It shows up as agreeing to something they actually minded, then feeling it later.

6. ♃Jupiter in Pisces

   ♓ 23° Pisces 05'

   growth and excess

   They grow through compassion, imagination and a willingness to trust things they cannot fully explain. The overreach is an idealism about people or situations that the facts do not quite support. It shows up as a generosity of spirit that others lean on more than they let they know.

7. ♄Saturn in Aquarius

   ♒ 7° Aquarius 55' ℞

   discipline and doubt

   They build discipline around belonging to a group on their own terms, often after early experiences of feeling like an outsider. The doubt shows up as holding back their stranger ideas until Alec is sure they will not be mocked. It shows up as becoming, eventually, a trusted voice in exactly the kind of community they once worried would not accept they.

8. ♅Uranus in Sagittarius

   ♐ 22° Sagittarius 58' ℞

   freedom, generational

   Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who transform belief systems and access to knowledge, often through unprecedented exposure to other cultures and ideas. Personally, it can show up as a restlessness with any single worldview presented as the only one.

9. ♆Neptune in Cancer

   ♋ 3° Cancer 39'

   imagination, generational

   Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who idealise home and family, often carrying a wider cultural nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never have quite existed. Personally, it can show up as a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.

10. ♇Pluto in Gemini

    ♊ 19° Gemini 39'

    power, generational

    Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that transforms communication and collective thought itself, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. Personally, it can show up as an intense relationship with what counts as truth.

Aspects

How the planets in Alec Douglas-Home's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

1. Jupiter square Uranus

   0.1° separating

   Their appetite for growth can turn erratic, leading to sudden changes of direction that leave earlier plans unfinished. The lesson is channeling a genuinely good instinct for change into fewer, more deliberate moves that actually get to see the finish line.

2. Moon trine Mercury

   1.0° applying

   Their feelings and their thinking flow together easily, so they can usually explain what they feel almost as soon as they feel it. This makes they a natural, comforting communicator in emotional moments, the kind of person others call first when something has gone wrong.

3. Mercury conjunction Pluto

   1.6° applying

   Their thinking is probing and intense, and Alec is drawn to what lies underneath a surface explanation. This gives they real investigative strength, and the edge is not assuming a hidden motive where an ordinary one will do.

4. Venus trine Uranus

   1.7° separating

   Their affections and their independence cooperate easily, letting they stay close to people without feeling confined by it. Excitement and stability manage to coexist for they, more comfortably than the usual choice between the two would suggest.

• Sun square Mars2.2°
• Moon trine Pluto2.6°
• Uranus opposition Pluto3.3°
• Jupiter square Pluto3.4°
• Mars trine Saturn3.7°
• Mercury opposition Uranus4.9°
• Mercury square Jupiter5.0°
• Moon conjunction Mars5.5°
• Sun conjunction Neptune5.8°
• Moon sextile Uranus5.9°
• Mercury trine Mars6.5°
• Sun square Moon7.7°