_{Images of Pamela Anderson in her hit show ‘Baywatch’ (left) & of Harrison Ford is his iconic role as Indiana Jones (right)}

It’s Cancer season, so I thought it would be interesting to explore the charts of two famous Cancer Sun celebrities. For balance, I chose an actress and an actor, each well-know in their own right for different reasons. Well, I know this is an unlikely pairing but that’s why interpreting their charts is a fun and (I hope) informative experience. Although on the surface level you’d think that Pam and Harrison are worlds apart, if you dive deeper you would be surprised at some of their shared, core, crab sensitivities. Obviously, in this post I will barely scratch the surface of their astrological placements as I mean to give you some interesting insights mostly about their public persona, significant relationships and some of their karmic placements.

On one hand we have 90s bombshell Pamela Anderson (born on July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith, Canada; age 56 years) the woman with the most Playboy covers (14), who recently re-appeared in the public eye with her Netflix documentary ‘Pamela, a love story’, created to celebrate her unusual legacy and disconfirm a lot of the things depicted in the recent miniseries ‘Pam and Tommy’. Pamela’s big threes are: Sun in Cancer (conjunct Mercury), Moon in Aries (conjunct Saturn and Lilith!) and a Gemini Ascendant. Her North Node is in Taurus in the 11th house and her South Node is in Scorpio in the 5th house.

On the other hand we have ‘veteran’ actor Harrison Ford (born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; age 81 years ), a reluctant celebrity who managed in his career to be part of two of the most successful film franchises there are: Star Wars and Indiana Jones (not to mention his cult performance in Blade Runner as detective Rick Deckard). Harrison’s big threes are: Sun & Moon in Cancer (conjunct Mercury and Jupiter on the Midheaven) and a Libra Ascendant (loosely conjunct Neptune, by degrees and not by sign). His South Node is in Pisces in the 5th house and his North Node is in Virgo in the 11th house.

_{Image of Pamela Anderson’s birth chart from https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Pamela_Anderson}

Did you already notice something interesting that they have in common? Firstly, their North Nodes are placed in the same houses, the 5th & the 11th houses, even if in different astrological signs. The 5th house is the house of fun, entertainment, radiating light, being a skilled performer and having a strong personality, while the 11th house is the house of working as part of a group, detached communication, idealism and having a unique and progressive lifestyle. Both were born as natural performers and they were meant to create and live within their own social group, to be rebellious and innovative.

Secondly, their Water Suns are balanced by an Airy outer-wrapping since both have Ascendants in Air signs. Not only that but their karmic loads are pretty heavy and this karmic payback plays out for them in their private love life, in their personal relationships. Pam has the infamous Moon conjunct Saturn aspect, that unfortunately I am also intimately acquainted with and about which I have extensively written. Her placement is in feisty and charismatic Aries and it is conjunct the asteroid Lilith, the Wild Feminine Archetype, a marker of passion but also ruin in someone’s natal chart. In addition, Harrison has his Venus in Gemini conjunct Saturn, Uranus and also Lilith. When Saturn touches a person’s Moon (like in Pam’s case) or a person’s Venus (like in Harrison’s case), it limits the energy, freezing a person’s capacity to love, to feel things and to receive things from other people (be it gifts, compliments, affection etc). Saturn also separates things and grounds the energy in the chart of someone to a depressing degree. So Saturn is about deep emotional pain and painful romantic separations. In spite of the native’s best intentions, ultimately love can lead to a tough letting go and to some karmically-bound losses. The native is meant to learn emotional self-control, to remain stoic in front of life’s challenges and to put in emotion work if they want their relationships to last. Any fickleness is karmically punished, and fulfillment in love comes predominantly with old age.

And we see this energy play out very well in Pam’s love life. She attracts a large number of men towards her, but very few can fulfill her emotional needs. She is portrayed in the documentary as someone that falls in love very easily and is a hopeless romantic, but chasing the thrill of love could be a sign of a person that finds it hard to sustain affection for a longer period of time, which is a symptom of a Moon conjunct Saturn personality. Throw Lilith into this planetary combo, and we can see that in reality, Pamela’s deep emotional need is to work and to live independently rather than to become a trophy wife or a domestic goddess. Pam also said that she feels like Tommy Lee is the love of her life and yet she also feels like they can’t be together and the reason for this is that Tommy is a Sun in Libra, and in Pam’s synastry chart, his solar energy was opposing her Moon conjunct Saturn in Aries duo. As much as they loved each other, Saturn was bound to eventually separate them; I can also see that Pam might’ve felt like the parent in this connection, since she had her Saturn activated by Tommy’s Sun.

To my mind, the miniseries portrayed Pam in a kinder and more beautiful light than the documentary, who I feel made her look a bit unhinged. It’s strange to see Pamela’s desire to not be interpreted by other people, to not be overly sexualized or judged by others, when she simultaneously and actively sought this attention from the public by making some risqué career choices. This overt duality shows the contradictory nature of her Gemini Ascendant and how it can play out in the natal chart. It’s almost like Pam’s internal monologue could be: “I am a bombshell but also a nerd who loves to write”, “I am a moral mother but also a woman who earns money by objectifying her body to cater to the male gaze”. There’s nothing to blame or shame here, I actually really like Pam and am rooting for her to find true love and feel more emotionally settled in a partnership (especially as she is approaching her second Saturn return). It’s just an example of how astrological placements end up determining a person’s path in life. With a Midheaven in Aquarius, Pam is meant to leave behind a unique and outrageous legacy, a body of work (emphasis on the body) meant to open up people’s minds (…and it could take years before they catch up).

She is also not meant to feel comfortable with this legacy since her shy and domestic Cancer Sun sits in tenson with this progressive Aquarius Midheaven, so this is why we can visibly witness her discomfort at accepting the fact that she will forever be known as a sex symbol. When you are born with a South Node in Scorpio and a North Node in Taurus, like Pam was, your destiny in life is bound by the ark of redemption and it could show the path of an individual turned from ‘sinner’ to ‘saint’, from darkness to light, from obsessive relationships and intense, sexual magnetism to living a wealthy, moral and upstanding life. Interestingly enough, Pam’s story re-appeared in the collective when she had her nodal return, a time in a person’s life when they are hastily pushed in the direction of their destiny. She created this documentary and is currently working on a book which reinterprets her torrid love affair with Tommy Lee not from the perspective of a hot, mad love that made them marry 4 days after they met (South in Scorpio), but from the viewpoint of star-crossed soulmates who were also good and devoted parents (North Node in Taurus).

In terms of Harrison’s personal relationships, he has been married twice and is now in his third marriage with Ally Macbeal‘s leading actress, Calista Flockhart. He has an impressive number of children (5) not all of which are biological. When I take a closer look at the synastry aspects between his and Calista’s chart, I see here a true soul bond, a partnership that makes him look forward to things in life and helps him spiritually grow. Both Calista and Harrison have compatible Suns (he is a Cancer, she is a Scorpio) and compatible Ascendants (his is in Libra, hers is in Sagittarius). Moreover, his Venus (love) is conjunct her North Node in Gemini (destiny), while her Mars (sexuality) is conjunct his North Node in Virgo (destiny). Both partners have a Mercury-ruled North Node (him in Virgo, hers in Gemini), which means that learning to communicate and to organize their daily lives is essential for their success in this lifetime. In addition, they are both drawn toward supporting humanitarian and educational causes. Among other things that energetically and astrologically bind them together are the fact that her Venus is conjunct his Ascendant, so Calista genuinely finds him attractive and handsome, and even though there is a 20 years age difference between them, this works in their favor since Calista has a Moon conjunct Saturn in Aquarius. This aspect shows me that she has a tendency to fall in love with older, wiser types who bring her a sense of emotional safety, just like Harrison.

Furthermore, Harrison was meant to find love and feel happier in his relationships in the latter portion of his life, so after his second Saturn return (around 56-58 years of age) because of his Venus conjunct Saturn in Gemini; as you can notice both of these placements are in friendly and compatible Air signs, which I think balances their charts pretty well as it intellectualizes their Water sign sensitivities and cools of their fire placements (and Harrison has plenty of that in his chart, with an ultra-powerful Mars conjunct Pluto in Leo, an aspect that military leaders do well with, since it is said to bring victory in combat, even beyond death).

_{Image of Harrison Ford’s birth chart from https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Harrison_Ford}

And since I mentioned this Leonic energy in Harrison’s chart, I want to bring up Pam’s Leonic placements because this is another thing they share in common: in spite of their moody and artistic Cancerian Sun, both Pam and Harrison are fighters, they are deeply passionate individuals who can easily get hot under the collar. In a man’s chart, usually his Mars placement shows the type of masculinity he tends to identify with and embody, while in a woman’s chart it is Venus which shows the femininity performed, or the way in which she loves and styles herself to feel attractive. Harrison has a Mars conjunct Pluto in Leo (an aspect which makes him part of the so called Baby boomer generation) so I think for him, as a man, he might’ve identified more with Leo-related qualities than his Cancer Sun. Although both Cancer and Leo are loving and warm energies, Leo represents strength, loyalty, traditionalism, honesty and romantic charisma. We could see this energy in Harrison in his earlier roles, as he channeled this darker and aggressive aspect of his personality in Blade Runner or Presumed Innocent. Pluto makes him an intense lover, deeply suspicious and jealous but also wonderfully protective and dedicated to his close inner circle. It is this Leo energy that helped him create the rebellious character of Hans Solo and give that infamous reply to Princess Leia’s confession of love to him with ‘I know’, rather than an ‘I love you back’ :))

Just as a sidenote, I always thought it was weird for me to watch Harrison on the screen since he resembles a lot my own father, who is a Libra Sun (left), especially when he was younger:

For Pam, we can see that she has her Venus conjunct Jupiter in Leo. A Venus in Leo shows someone who is very generous and big-hearted, they are warm, sexy and inviting. You want to date them and to be around them since they have a star-like quality. Leo Venuses are also attracted to famous people, to wealth and optimism, to the glitzy and glam side of life, but they might also provoke dramas when things become too quiet and peaceful or when they feel ignored. They can easily attract well-known people or hang around with people who have a star-like quality. The problem with this placements is that it could be too Ego-based in intimate relationships, and since Pam has this energy amplified by Jupiter, the planet of living large and lucky gambles, I could see why Pam has such a powerful force-field of attraction around her but also why her romances are doomed to fail. As a Leo Venus it is important to pay attention to the needs of others and to be careful how much you are giving and how much you are receiving in your close relationships, because you might take more than you give, or you could just expect others to adore you and find this to be the foundation of the relationship. Wearing your heart on your sleeve and acting out of impulse when you begin or end a connection, are also possible scenarios with a Sun-ruled love life. But no matter what happens, a Leo Venus shines and they will forever do so.

In spite of the romantic disappointments, Pamela remains an icon. Leo is also Yang energy, which means it is solar, masculine and competitive so this energy plays out better in the chart of a man than in that of a woman’s. Pam unfortunately has a lot of masculine, Yang planets in her inner world (her Moon, Venus and Jupiter) which can make her prone to taking the leader role in her romantic relationships and this might provoke arguments. She is nonetheless beautifully balanced in her energy by her Cancerian Sun and Mercury, her Libra Mars and her Pluto & Uranus in Virgo.

Finally, I thought it’s useful to focus on these Leonic placements in their charts because we are collectively undergoing the transit of the planet Venus in the sign of Leo, at the moment at which I am writing this article. This energy will intensify as Venus will go retrograde from the 22nd of July until the 3rd of September. So for 44 days and 44 nights, issues related to our personal attractiveness, how we use our strength in love, how we compete with others and what angers us in love and how we rise into our super-star qualities will be prominent. These issues will have to be worked inwards, since Venus retro is about going within and taking the focus from surface-level beauty to the beauty of one’s own character and inner values. So think about this: What or whom are you defending in love? What is worth fighting for in your daily reality? What angers you to the point of pushing you into action? And how do you use your heart to attract the genuine affection of others? Maybe these questions could serve as the beginning of some deep inner work. Although, I kind of feel like it would’ve been spiritually nourishing to sit down and talk to Pamela and Harrison about love & life. After all, the most beautiful quality of a Cancerian Sun is their wonderful capacity to tell insightful stories that truly touch our hearts.

With universal love,

Lexi