Stellia

[Jim Eshelman]

A stellium (pl. stellia) is a cluster of planets. In the present context, it means many planets in one sign, placing unusual emphasis on that sign. There is no hard rule about how many planets constitute a stellium, but, since three planets in a sign is common, I suggest de-fining a stellium as four or more planets in one constellation.

Stellia are somewhat rare. Finding one that does not include Sun is even rarer. Interpret a stellium’s sign as having a strong emphasis on the character and, especially, on how the life will unfold in the world. A stellium is not as strong as a Sun or Moon sign, but probably about as important as Mars’ sign.

One branch of my family has a strong hereditary predisposition to stellia running through the women for several generations: a woman with a Sagittarius stellium; her two daughters with Scorpio and Virgo stellia; each of those daughters had a daughter with a Libra stellium (and one other with a Virgo stellium), one of whom had a daughter with an Aquarius stellium. Notice that the signs were not the inherited characteristic: It is the fact of having a stellium at all.

In a recent post, I documented that my collection of timed birth charts for murderers has an unusual frequency of stellia, especially in those signs in which Venus is in detriment. I've just completed identifying the stellia in my large sample Example Chart Catalogue. Of 924 current example public figures, 174 stellia exist. This sets an expectation of about 19% - almost one chart in five - which is higher than I expected to see in general population. It may be that the existence of a stellium is such a high concentration of energy that it much one more toward notoriety or fame - but that's a preliminary thought only, barely more than an idle thought.

[Jim Eshelman]

Identified stellia in the Example Chart Catalogue:

TAURUS
Aretha Franklin, Bette Davis, Brooke Shields, Cyril Fagan, Duce Benito Mussolini, Erica Jong, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joanne Herring, Josephine Baker, Keir Dullea, King Edward VIII, M.C. Escher, Mary Astor, Oswald Spengler

GEMINI
Alan Turing, Nikola Tesla, Anna Moffo, Burl Ives, Celia Franca, Charles Whitman, Col. Tom Parker, Giorgio, Jane Russell, Kathy Bates, Nancy Reagan, Olivia De Haviland, Polly Bergen, Pres. Calvin Coolidge, Ross Perot, King George III, Robert Heinlein

CANCER
Alfried Krupp, Cheryl Crane, Eleanor Smeal, Esther Williams, Georgia Bonesteel, Gladys Bentley, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gov. George Wallace, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Linda Sexton, Lizzie Borden, Martin Sheen, Mata Hari, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Mick Jagger, Natalie Wood, Phyllis Diller, Pres. George W. Bush, Ringo Starr, Ruth Buzzi, Sen. Bill Bradley, Sri Aurobindo, Wes Craven, Willem Dafoe

LEO
Alan Dershowitz, Gloria Estefan, Gordon Ramsay, Julia Roberts, Patsy Cline, Paul Janssen, Queen Elizabeth Stuart, Ray Bradbury, Terri Lyne Carrington

VIRGO
Annette Funicello, Bruce Springsteen, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Christopher Reeve, Claudia Schiffer, Dottie Wiltse Collins, George Plantagenet, Gwyneth Paltrow, James Huberty, Jenny McCarthy, Kathryn Bigelow, LeAnn Rimes, Margaret Cho, Marsha Norman, Pres. Bill Clinton, Stephen King, William Faulkner

LIBRA
Arthur H. Blackwell, Bill Gates, Bruce Lee, Carl Sagan, Charles Manson, Deepak Chopra, Demi Moore, PM Jawaharlal Nehru, Pres. Warren G. Harding, Maria Shriver, Martin Frankel, Martin Luther, Sec. Condoleezza Rice, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg

SCORPIO
Ada Lovelace, George Boole, Britney Spears, Christine Aguilera, Dick Clark, Donna Brazile, Frances Yates, Franz Hartmann, Harry Chapin, Jimmy Hynes, Joan Ganz Cooney, Kaley Cuoco, King George VI, Marie Curie, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Lucky Luciano, Helen Duncan, Bruno Hauptmann, Ted Bundy, William Blake

SAGITTARIUS
Adele, Johannes Kepler, Louis Pasteur, Albert Hoffman, Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh, Mother Meera, Clara Barton, Gen. George B. McClellan, Ghislaine Maxwell, Ian Brady, Marlene Dietrich, Meg Tilly, Pres. Richard M. Nixon, Queen Margaret Tudor, Ronan Farrow, Rudyard Kipling

CAPRICORN
Gen. Jeb Stuart, Gertrude Stein, Muhammad Ali, Pres. William McKinley, Princess Claire Coombs, Sheryl Crow, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Wilhelm Gesenius, William Burroughs

AQUARIUS
Alan Hale Jr., Alfred Witte, Dakota Fanning, Mark Spitz, Queen Anne, Rep. Sonny Bono, Sidney Poitier

PISCES
Albert Einstein, Algernon Swinburne, Charles Baudelaire, Ethel Kennedy, Henri Desiré Landru, Joseph Campbell, Judy Collins, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Nat "King" Cole, Richard Francis Burton, Rodney King

ARIES
Adolf Hitler, Bernie Madoff, Bertrand Russell, Curt Sachs, George Takei, Guglielmo Marconi, Henri Philippe Petain, Ricky Nelson, Roger Ailes, Rollo May, Sigmund Freud, Theo Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh, Virginia Woolf

[James Condor]

Cool. Stellium=4 or more. I see!
Very good.

[Jim Eshelman]

Thanks for reminding me this was here - I wanted to finish sorting these. In appreciation for the reminder, I took the list at least to the Sagittarius stellia then decided to finish it.

[Lyse]

One branch of my family has a strong hereditary predisposition to stellia running through the women for several generations: a woman with a Sagittarius stellium; her two daughters with Scorpio and Virgo stellia; each of those daughters had a daughter with a Libra stellium (and one other with a Virgo stellium), one of whom had a daughter with an Aquarius stellium. Notice that the signs were not the inherited characteristic: It is the fact of having a stellium at all.

My mother had a 5 planet stellium in Pisces. Other than myself, with 4 planets in Cancer, she was the only member of my family to have a stellia.

When I looked at the synastry, apart from a partile Saturn-Saturn and her Saturn square my ASC at 2°37’, there aren’t many dynamic aspects. We were close so I had expected stronger aspects than trines but it becomes clearer when comparing my Novien to her natal. Unfortunately, I don’t have her birth time just an approximate but with so many planets in Pisces, she was definitely out there, especially for that era.

[Jim Eshelman]

Pisces stellium people are definitely in the social and psychological outer limits! <g> Fagan was very fond of the charts of Algernon Swinburne and Charles Baudelaire and published or referenced them frequently. Bradley wrote a fascinating article on Richard Francis Burton. And then, of course, there are Eistein, the infamous Landru, Joseph Campbell.

Even Sandra Day O'Connor, who seemed sufficiently well-behaved in public, was a pioneer - and probably wasn't nearly so "driving between the lines" in her private life.

[Lyse]

Pisces stellium people are definitely in the social and psychological outer limits!

agan was very fond of the charts of Algernon Swinburne and Charles Baudelaire and published or referenced them frequently. Bradley wrote a fascinating article on Richard Francis Burton.

Some interesting people on that list, I’ll check them out.