Hi, I'm Chani Nicholas, and this is Star Power.
Today my guest is Janet Mock,
and we're going to see
what her chart has to say.
And so we have you at the beginning of Taurus,
you've got a Taurus rising.
Did you know that?
that you have-- - I did know that.
Because when I read your book,
I started looking up all this stuff on your website,
'cause you can put all that information in
and so I kinda, I know that.
I don't know what it means, exactly, but.
- Yeah.
Did you resonate at all with it?
With anything that you read?
- I guess, I don't know, I don't know.
Yeah, I guess yeah,
I guess it makes sense 'cause I feel like visually,
I don't seem like a Pisces.
- Okay, so your sun is in Pisces,
obviously, spoiler alert,
but Pisces has that kind of mystique to it.
Like, there's an elusive quality to Pisces.
And so, when your sun is in Pisces,
there's that feeling of like,
"ooh, there's,"
It's like soft lighting
kind of follows you around.
- [Janet] Well there's my ring light, and my other light,
so yeah it makes sense.
- But a Taurus rising. Taurus is like how we kind
of like, it's what we want to be known for.
And so while Pisces is like,
mysterious and like, everywhere
and nowhere and poetic and creative and like,
away with the fairies and in the realms of possibility.
Taurus is very, very grounded, and very here and very solid.
And so it wants to be known for somebody who's going
to show up and going to be reliable and also going
to build something.
Taurus is fixed earth and so there's a way in
which when you have Taurus rising, you want to be known
for your ability to manifest possibility.
Does that resonate with you at all when I say that?
- In a way, I guess that probably very early on, both
of those sides, helped out a lot.
You know, I think I, you know,
as growing up, you know,
as a trans girl, really thinking about visualizing
what my life could be like,
who I could be, how do I step into
becoming who I am and
the Taurus part of me, I guess,
kind of helped, came up with the action plan
to make all that happen.
And so it does deeply resonate.
- And then we look at
the planet that steers the ship of your life,
which is the planet that rules your Ascendant.
And that's Venus.
And you have Venus in a sign that it has
a really hard time in, you have Venus in Aries.
And so when you see that you,
there's always a kind of connotation of, there might
be a struggle around an issue that pertains to gender.
And so what I've seen so much with this,
like almost exact signature,
is folks that specifically have experienced
some part of that.
This signature in your chart says, you know,
"we are not lost."
"There's beauty here, there's abundance here."
"There's stories here, this population or my experience
"has been demonized or criminalized or what have you.
"But my job is to go into those spaces and say,
this is the beauty of it."
- To be honest, you know, my television and film career
is new, you know. Being a storyteller isn't new,
but I have been feeling that pressure,
and grateful to Netflix really for giving me
a creative platform at home, where I can nurture that stuff
and incubate these ideas and then make them, you know.
And so, I do feel like I'm on the cusp
of that of the making of a lot of this stuff
and to stand on my own, as you said,
like the authority.
And that's really exciting, it's very scary,
but it is the next chapter
and it resonates on a very, very deep level.
- On the other side of your moon
is the asteroid Janetsong.
- [Janet] What?
- [Chani] There's a couple of asteroids that are named
Janet-something, like it's really it's like an asteroid
got named after a person, I think you can do that.
But this one is named Janetsong,
S-O-N-G.
- It's so funny.
Song, like, it's you know,
I got my name from Janet Jackson
you know later like just being very literal about it,
it's like...
- [Chani] Exactly.
That piece is like, okay, I'm like--
- [Chani] What!
- [Janet] Like it was listening to you know,
"The Velvet Rope" and then seeing images of her
with her red curly hair and her,
you know, expression of her sexuality
and how fluid she was through that
and, you know,
that made me just go like, oh my God, you know,
that's the name, that's what I want to name myself.
I want to name myself Janet, you know?
Yeah, that's so funny.
- [Chani] That the universe was like,
let's be Captain Obvious about it.