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Ed Harris's Zi Wei Dou Shu chart

Actor (The Truman Show, Apollo 13) · born November 28, 1950 in Englewood, USA

The American actor and director nominated four times for an Academy Award, for films including Apollo 13 and The Truman Show. In his chart, the Life Palace holds Tan Lang (Ping).

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Pioneers · Tan Lang1950 · M10 D19 · Mao hour
YearGengYin
MonthDingHai
DayDingMao
HourGuiMao
Life Master Lian Zhen
Body Master Tian Liang

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Life Palace

Without anyone backing you and under pressure, you can take risky shortcuts.

Terms in this palace · Tap for a plain explanation

Without anyone backing you and under pressure, you can take risky shortcuts.

Classical texts say Tan Lang with challenging stars and no helpful ones often ends up in heavy, rough trades; today, it means building steadily through hands-on work.

Stars
Tan Lang NatureYou are curious and many-talented, well liked, and you want a lot from life. With so many interests, pick one or two to go deep on.
Challenging Stars PresentWhatever you do is lively for a while but never solid. In the end it is mostly show, and the results don't stay.
Life Master Lian ZhenYou carry a firm inner yardstick and strong emotions. When principle and passion live side by side, you shine. Your Life Master sits in your Travel Palace, so your thoughts often circle around travel and social settings.
Patterns
Sha Po Lang (Killings, Breaker, Wolf)Your Life Palace sits on the Sha Po Lang line: life moves in big swings and you rarely sit still. Change is your fuel, but always leave yourself a way back.Classic pattern
Lu Feng Kong Jie (Lu Meets the Voids)Lu Cun sits here with Di Kong: gains come, and slip away easily too. Save a share of what comes in, and do not bet everything on one thing.Later pattern
Lu Ma Jiao Chi (Wealth and Horse Gallop Together)A Lu star meets Tian Ma: the more you move, the more you gain. Travel, field work and anything across regions especially favor you.Classic pattern
This part follows the Flying Star school: where this palace's stem sends its transformations. It is a different method from the classical reading above.
Lu to TravelYou do better out in the world than at home. Get out and meet people and the chances follow.
Ji to SiblingsThe palace stem sends Tai Yang Hua Ji into your Siblings Palace: when things stall here, it often shows with your peers as well.
Minor Stars
Feng GeYou have taste and ingenuity, with a keen eye for beauty and handcraft. Put that gift to use.
Nian JieWhen you hit a wall, someone or something often comes along to untangle it. Keep your goodwill, and turning points come sooner.
Chang ShengNew life is stirring, and fresh starts often sprout here. Nurture them slowly and they grow stronger.

The Life Palace is about: Who you are at the core: your temperament and innate makeup. Every chart reading starts here.

Where the chart lines up

Moving and changing schools to study drama

In high school Harris captained the football team, and he went on to play varsity football at Columbia University; two years later his family moved to New Mexico and he followed, having by then discovered his interest in acting through theatre plays. He enrolled at the University of Oklahoma to study drama, and later moved to Los Angeles to attend the California Institute of the Arts. His chart shows Tian Ma in the Life Palace. Tian Ma is often read as movement and travel, and all that moving can be read alongside it.

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Nominations and directing in the Career decade

Apollo 13 in 1995 and The Truman Show in 1998 both earned Harris Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor, and the latter won him a Golden Globe; in 2000 he made his directorial debut with Pollock, also starring in it, and for the role built a small studio in which to copy the painter's techniques. In the Decade Luck for nominal ages 42–51 (1991–2000), the decade's Life Palace moves to his natal Career Palace. The Career Palace stands for career, and the work of these years can be read alongside it.

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On stage and screen with his wife Amy Madigan

Harris's wife, Amy Madigan, is also an actor. In 2010 the two appeared together in the independent film Once Fallen, and in 2016 they appeared together again in The New Group's revival of Sam Shepard's play Buried Child. His chart shows Wu Qu (Wang) with Hua Quan (Transformation of Power) in the Spouse Palace. The Spouse Palace stands for one's partner, and Hua Quan is often read as a partner who carries her own weight at work. The two can be read together.

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Life Palace

Ed Harris's Life Palace holds Tan Lang. Xingge's name for this persona: The Virtuoso. With the Water 2 Bureau, that makes the Water 2 · Tan Lang type among Xingge's 75.

Tan Lang · The Virtuoso ›Water 2 · Tan Lang type ›

Birth-year transformations

The stem of Ed Harris's birth year transforms four stars:

Birth data

Local time 1950-11-28 05:32, from Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA (birth certificate or record). In true solar time at the birthplace that is 05:47, the Mao hour.

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