Woody Allen

Woody Allen is a mind that never stops turning things over, and his Sagittarius Sun is the walking, mobile university at the heart of it: the born philosopher who shines through ideas, wit and the big questions of God, death and love. Sagittarius radiates that restless, jovial intelligence, and Allen poured six decades of it into stand-up, short stories for The New Yorker, and more than fifty films, from the early slapstick of Bananas and Sleeper to the Oscar-winning Annie Hall and the European reveries of Midnight in Paris. That Sun sits in his fourth house of home and roots, and his true homeland was always New York itself, the city he filmed like a family hearth.

His Moon in Aquarius is the crazy-genius psyche, detached, nonconformist, wired to the fringe and to the intellect rather than to warm feeling. Placed in the sixth house of daily craft, it drove the near-monastic routine of a film a year, work as the thing that steadied him. His Virgo Ascendant is the perfectionist, self-deprecating, nebbish mask he built into a persona: the fretful, bespectacled analyst. His life has also drawn serious and disputed allegations, which he has denied. The chart maps the temperament, not the verdict.