Gene Tierney

Gene Tierney was one of the great luminous faces of Hollywood's golden age, and her chart holds the very quality the camera adored: a depth that looked back at you. Her Sun sits in Scorpio, the sign of the eagle and the phoenix, of transformation and the unblinking stare, and it shone in the ninth house of foreign horizons and higher learning. You can trace both: the young woman who studied in Lausanne and spoke fluent French, and the actress whose finest roles carried Scorpio's magnetism and menace, the haunting title figure of Laura (1944) and the possessive, self-destroying Ellen of Leave Her to Heaven (1945), which earned her an Academy Award nomination. Her Moon in Pisces, the ultimate empath's Moon, the sponge tuned to the spirit realm and divine imagination, rose in the first house, right under the surface of the skin, so her emotions and her mothering nature were worn openly for all to read. That same Piscean sensitivity made her a sponge for the world's darkness, and her life carried real private suffering. Her Aquarius Ascendant lent the mask of the singular one, the beauty who never read as merely ordinary. She was, from Brooklyn debutante to poet to leading lady, unmistakably her own creature: watery, transforming, and impossible to look away from.