Harper Lee & Truman Capote

[Jim Eshelman]

Harper Lee: Apr 28, 1926, 5:25 PM CST, Monroeville, AL
Truman Capote: Sep 30, 1924, 3:00 PM CST, New Orleans, LA.

Childhood and (more or less) lifelong friends, Harper Lee and Truman Capote seem a worthy synastry study for their eventually complex and layered relationship.

As in many such longtime relationships rooted in childhood, they shared a Moon-sign (which was opposite her Sun-sign: His Moon was < 4° from opposite her Sun). His Moon-Saturn fell on her angle, her Saturn (but also Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune) on his. His Sun opposed her Mercury (and he likely was the igniting force in her deciding to write). There Marses conjoined to the degree (i.e., he was born on her Mars return) as part of a more complex Venus-Mars-Neptune to Mars-Jupiter-Neptune axis. His Venus squared her Moon (but also Saturn).

A student of their relationship could have a field day with this!

[Jim Eshelman]

Two kids growing up in the same small town with the same Moon sign were likely to become friends anyway, but was there something that singled them out significantly to each other in the method of progressing each chart to the other's birth?

Harper Lee's SNQ for Truman Capote's birth has progressed Asc conjunct natal Uranus. He represented a moment in time that woke her up! But there isn't anything else worth mentioning.


Truman Capote's quotidian to Harper Lee's birth is more immediately eye grabbing:

28°15' Aqu - t Venus
28°19' Leo - SNQ EP
28°48' Leo - p Mercury

Her birthdate was one of those months that single out something specific in a person's life. It implies connection yet also their frictions:

2°07' Aqu - r Mars
2°19' Aqu - p Mars
2°52' Sco - r MC
3°14' Sco - p Moon
3°52' Aqu - t Mars