The indomitable Helen Mirren is 80 and not only still going strong but has a super-abundance of films on offer this year because of the covid pile-up – the second series of 1923 with Harrison Ford, the London gangland series MobLand and is now back alongside Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie for Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club.
She was born 26 July 1945 2am London with a Russian father from an exiled aristocratic family who escaped the Revolution in 1915 and she started acting on stage aged 18 and has never looked back. Her ambition was to be a serious classical actress but it was the TV cop drama Prime Suspect which first brought her to prominence in the UK. Her notable films include The Long Good Friday, Excalibur, The Mosquito Coast, and The Cook, the Thief, The Madness of King George, Gosford Park, Elizabeth II in the drama The Queen and four of the Marvel franchises. Multiple awards on stage and screen followed.
She is a Leo Sun conjunct Pluto – like Princess Anne, so has the same powerful personality. An Aquarius Moon on her Midheaven suits her for a public career and her 12th house Mars, Uranus, Venus will give her emotional depth and a creative streak. Her Mars is in a showbizzy trine to Neptune, sextile her Sun.
She had a relationship way back with Liam Neeson and has been married to her long-time partner producer Taylor Hackford for twenty years. She has no children and says she never wanted them – for which Neptune on the cusp of her 5th might be an indicator.
In an interview recently she said she was in New York on 9/11 to open a play macabrely called The Dance of Death by Strindberg. At that point tr Neptune was opposition her Sun/Pluto midpoint and her Solar Arc Pluto was conjunct her Neptune for a devastating experience with oddly the midheaven for the first plane crash exactly conjunct her Saturn.
At the moment tr Pluto is opposing her Sun (from 2024 till late 2025) which will have been pressured but brought rewards. Money will flow through this year with tr Jupiter through her 2nd and tr Saturn will continue her high profile career phase as it moves through her 10th and then upper quadrant for some years ahead.
Her creative, get-it-together 5th Harmonic is exceptionally strong.
Years ago, I saw Helen Mirren on a late night talk show, Letterman maybe? She said that, as a young actor, she visited a psychic who told her she would become successful in her career only when she was much older.
Feng Shui Astrology of Mirren. Born in 1945, she is a White Water Star. The trigram
for this is one Yang line between two Yin lines. The interpretation of these lines is
that there is a hidden strength and depth behind a facade.
She had no children….Number one Water types value their independence and prefer to
be alone. Example: Queen Victoria and hubby Prince Albert were both number one types. When Albert died Victoria withdrew within herself for the rest of her long life
In relationships, Mirren would give support to a Tree typs, as water nourishes trees.
She would find Fire typs antagonistic, as fire douses water.
Her Annual Profected Asc falls in her 10th of career, conj her natal Moon, ruler of
her 2nd House of Money (from more acting roles).
She was born during a sun hour, an hour that would repeat every 7 yrs.
“Everything will be done unto thee in 7’s” (bible quote. Using planetary hours for
one yr of life we have….0 yrs, Sun; 7 yrs Sun; 14yrs Sun…..77yrs, Sun; 78yrs Venus;
79yrs, Mercury; 80 yrs Moon. So Moon is her current co-ruler along with profected
Asc in 10trh. Her natal Moon is conj her MC/10th, ruling her 2nd of money.
So for this period of her life she gets more acting roles and more money.
Is there a way of telling which one is the north node, if both nodes are depicted in the natal chart. I also have a cancer south node & a capricorn north node which apparently indicates moving away from being dependent on soft care and moving towards selfsufficiency by toughening the spin up a little. I wonder in which direction the development movement is in Helen Mirren’s chart?
Helen has a Cancer North Node – you recognize nodes by the pictogram.
I may be missing something but isn’t it the exact same symbol? If there was just the north node depicted in the natal chart, then I would get it. But as soon as both are included I am lost … lols. send h e l p.
And thanks for pointing out … cancer north node in 12 then … hhmmmm
Look more closely – the South Node pictogram is upside down from the North Node pictogram. North Node looks a bit like Leo sign, South Node is open on the top.
Ahhhh thanks Les, don’t know how I missed that. I see it now.
I saw her on stage in London in a wonderful production of Othello in 1972! Time flies. She did great arthouse movies at first and I loved her in Prime Suspect. Lately, she has been too commercial for my taste.