- Cancer is always looking for security.
It's very different than your moon.
Your moon is like,
"Fuck security, I want a good time."
- Yes.
- I'm Chani Nicholas, and this is Star Power.
Today my guest is Laverne Cox,
and I'm so excited to read her chart.
So you're Leo Rising.
So, the rising sign is such an important part
of the chart, the most personal part.
It's really determined on the time and the place
and the moment that you were born.
It's the part of the sky that was rising up
over the Eastern horizon
the moment you are pronounced born.
And so it's what we're motivated to do.
And it's what we wanna be known for.
And so what does Leo wanna be known for?
Leo is here to self-express, Leo is the performer.
Leo is the one who tells the human story
up on stage
for everybody so that we can all reflect on our life
and our tragedies, and our triumphs,
and our capacity to love and heal.
And so your main motivation is to come here
and to find your way of self-expressing.
- Oh my God, that's brilliant.
I'm like, okay. I didn't realize you'd be
just telling me about myself like this.
Wow, yeah, that was my whole life growing up.
I needed to be on stage, I needed to perform.
It was the thing that kept me alive.
- Right by your Ascendant is the asteroid Terpsichore.
- Terpsichore, the god of dance.
Girl, what are you doing?
What is this?
So wait, say that again.
Where's Terpsichore, where is she?
- Terpsichore was in a part of the sky that was
rising up the moment you were born.
That part of the sky marks your life with your motivation.
You were born for this.
So each planet rules a sign.
And they're kind of in charge of that domain.
And so the sun, the planet in a chart that is us,
it's our self-expression, it's our way
of doing our thing, that's our light,
that becomes the ruler of your chart.
So we know that your sun is in Gemini,
the sign of the twins.
And you are a...
- Twin, in real life, yes.
- But where your sun is is really important.
So we know that the sun wants to express itself
through language, information, data,
point by point by point by point.
So your ability to soak up information is extraordinary
and it's how you express yourself.
It's how you express your life energy.
All different forms of communication are so important.
Your sun is in the 11th house of Community
and the Group, and also Friends.
- It was my community of trans people
that gave me the courage and the strength
to try to change that conversation.
They supported the changing of the conversation.
And so we were all sort of
in dialogue and community together.
- The thing that you have right next to your sun is Saturn.
And Saturn is a planet of boundaries and restrictions
and strictness and discipline and self-control.
- That's a struggle.
The self-control is such a struggle, and the discipline.
It's such a struggle, but yes, I love control.
I love being in control.
I would love to be more disciplined, honestly.
Things have gotten better with age, they have.
That's been shocking, as much ageism as I've internalized.
It's been kind of shocking that I've come into myself
so much more over 40.
- Yeah.
Then we go to your moon. You were born at a full moon.
- Oh, interesting.
What does that indicate, if anything?
- Well, it indicates that
this lifetime is to be lived fully.
You were born at the peak of the cycle.
You were born in the morning,
but a couple of hours earlier, the moon was full.
And then that night there was a gorgeous full moon.
And so your moon is in Sagittarius.
And Sagittarius is all about freedom, movement,
travel, philosophy, the meaning of life.
Sagittarius is always on a quest.
So where Gemini wants to get all the information,
and to have all the conversations
and to remember all of the amazing quotes that
it loves and the tidbits and all the things
that can store it, like nobody's business,
Sag is like, "who cares about the details?
Let's go for the big thing."
And it's, like, off to the races.
Your moon's like, "I wanna be messy,
I wanna have fun, I wanna go get a lost."
- She was feeling it last week.
Oh yeah, this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.