Harry Harrison’s birth chart
Born 12 March 1924, in Stamford, Connecticut. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Pisces Sun · Gemini Moon
Harry Harrison’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
12 March 1924 was a Wednesday: the day Harry Harrison was born in Stamford, Connecticut. The Sun was in Pisces, so Pisces was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Gemini. Harry died on 15 August 2012, aged 88. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Of the ten planets, five are in water signs, two in fire, two in earth and one in air. By modality the count is five mutable, three fixed and two cardinal. Pisces holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury and Uranus. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Venus and Mars: a trine, exact to a tenth of a degree. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. Over the course of the day the Moon went from waxing crescent to first quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 12 March, among them Mitt Romney, Jack Kerouac and Liza Minnelli.
See the sky the day Harry was born: the stars over Stamford, Connecticut, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Harry Harrison’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
about 21° Pisces at midday
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make Harry Harrison the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Gemini
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
The Moon in Gemini processes feeling by naming it. For Harry, talking, writing and switching perspective are likely ways to settle, and silence can make small worries loud. They probably need people who let them think out loud.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Stamford, Connecticut, at each hour of the day.
Harry Harrison’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Harry yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 12 March 1924, computed for Stamford, Connecticut.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 02:05 | Sagittarius rising |
| 02:05 to 04:00 | Capricorn rising |
| 04:00 to 05:25 | Aquarius rising |
| 05:25 to 06:35 | Pisces rising |
| 06:35 to 07:45 | Aries rising |
| 07:45 to 09:10 | Taurus rising |
| 09:10 to 11:05 | Gemini rising |
| 11:05 to 13:30 | Cancer rising |
| 13:30 to 16:00 | Leo rising |
| 16:00 to 18:35 | Virgo rising |
| 18:35 to 21:05 | Libra rising |
| 21:05 to 23:40 | Scorpio rising |
| 23:40 to 24:00 | Sagittarius rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 12 March 1924, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 21° Pisces 51' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Gemini |
| Mercury | 13° Pisces 00' |
| Venus | 3° Taurus 42' |
| Mars | 3° Capricorn 43' |
| Jupiter | 18° Sagittarius 59' |
| Saturn | 1° Scorpio 32'℞ |
| Uranus | 17° Pisces 45' |
| Neptune | 18° Leo 09'℞ |
| Pluto | 10° Cancer 16'℞ |
| North Node | 1° Virgo 58' |
| South Node | 1° Pisces 58' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Harry Harrison’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Harry Harrison’s private life.
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Harry Harrison's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.
The Moon in Gemini runs its daily habits on conversation and mental stimulation, and Harry is likely to settle by talking a worry through rather than sitting with it quietly. A day with no one to talk to can leave them restless. The habit is to message a friend the moment something comes to mind, before deciding what to think about it.
Mercury in Pisces thinks in images and impressions more than straight lines, and Harry is likely to communicate through metaphor, tone and instinct rather than clean argument. Explaining a conclusion they nonetheless feel certain about can be the struggle. It is the kind of mind that knows something is off before it can say why.
Venus in Taurus loves steadily and shows it through consistency, touch and shared comfort rather than grand gestures, and in Harry's chart it is likely to value loyalty and things built to last. Because change feels like loss, this Venus can hold on to a relationship past its natural end. Months in, people with this placement tend to remember exactly how someone takes their coffee.
Mars in Capricorn acts with discipline and patience, playing a longer game than most, and in Harry's case its anger tends to be controlled, arriving as coldness rather than heat. The tendency is to go quiet and distant instead of saying what is wrong. A frustration is something to outwork rather than voice.
Jupiter in Sagittarius
18° Sagittarius 59' at midday
growth and excess
With Jupiter in Sagittarius, Harry is likely to grow through travel, study and direct experience of things bigger than ordinary life. The excess may be promising more than circumstances can deliver, out of optimism rather than dishonesty. This Jupiter carries a conviction that things will work out, and other people borrow it when theirs runs low.
Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for Harry letting go of either is unlikely to come easily. The doubt is bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given no reason for it. Comfort with vulnerability can come in the end, and the work it takes is seldom seen by others.
Uranus in Pisces
17° Pisces 45' at midday
freedom, generational
Harry has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Neptune in Leo
18° Leo 09' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Harry alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Pluto in Cancer
10° Cancer 16' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Harry to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects in Harry Harrison’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Venus trine Mars
about 0.0° at midday
Harry Harrison is likely to have a warm, confident way of going after what, and who, they want, since affection and drive back each other up. Romance and creative work tend to come without strain under this trine, in a manner other people find refreshingly straightforward.
Jupiter trine Neptune
about 0.8° at midday
Optimism and imagination tend to flow together for Harry, and what comes of it is an inspired, generous vision of what is possible. Hope and creativity tend to serve them well under this trine, especially when both are allowed to guide a project and neither is second-guessed.
Jupiter square Uranus
about 1.2° at midday
An appetite for growth can turn erratic under Jupiter square Uranus, with sudden changes of direction that leave earlier plans unfinished. The instinct for change this square gives Harry is a good one, and it does most when channelled into fewer, more deliberate moves that get to see the finish line.
Venus opposition Saturn
about 2.2° at midday
The pull in this aspect is between wanting closeness and a wariness that keeps testing whether it will last. For Harry, letting someone prove themselves gradually, instead of doubting them from the outset, tends to build security sooner than suspicion does.
Mars sextile Saturn
about 2.2° at midday
Sustained effort feels manageable, not draining, when Mars and Saturn are in sextile, and Harry has that combination of drive and discipline. What results is quiet, dependable follow-through, the kind that gets a long project finished while flashier approaches give out halfway.
Mercury trine Pluto
about 2.7° at midday
Harry's thinking and depth support each other, which gives them a natural ability to work through complex or hidden material without getting overwhelmed. With Mercury trine Pluto, research and difficult conversations both come easily, and Harry can stay with a hard subject long after others have looked away.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Sun square Jupiterabout 2.9°
- Sun conjunction Uranusabout 4.1°
- Mercury conjunction Uranusabout 4.7°
- Mercury square Jupiterabout 6.0°
- Mars opposition Plutoabout 6.5°
Pisces Sun and Gemini Moon, like Harry Harrison
Also born on 12 March
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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