Ken Burns
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Jul 29, 1953
Jul 29, 1953
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Sun
Leo
6°
Moon
Pisces
19°
Mercury
Cancer
29°
Venus
Gemini
23°
Mars
Cancer
29°
Jupiter
Gemini
18°
Saturn
Libra
21°
Uranus
Cancer
19°
Neptune
Libra
21°
Pluto
Leo
22°
N. Node
Aquarius
2°
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Ken Burns is an award‑winning documentary filmmaker and cofounder of Florentine Films. His landmark series — including The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz and The Vietnam War — reshaped public understanding of American history. Known for a distinct visual storytelling style (the "Ken Burns effect"), his influential work broadened documentary audiences and set new standards for historical filmmaking.
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Your Core Signs shape your core self, while the Inner and Outer Planets shape your personal traits and collective influences.
Sun in Leo
Degree: 6°
A warm ray of sunshine at his best, Ken Burns has a big personality and loves bringing people together. He's generous, straightforward, and naturally self-confident, which is why others often look to him to take the lead. When met with opposition, though, his pride can kick in and he may become stubborn or withdrawn, but he rarely holds grudges and bounces back to his playful self quickly.
Moon in Pisces
Degree: 19°
Ken Burns’s intuition runs deep — if something doesn’t feel right, he’ll trust his gut over any conventional logic. He absorbs others’ emotions easily, which fuels compassion and creative inspiration but can also drain him. Keeping a tight circle of positive people is essential, because his vulnerable heart feels everything at full volume.
Aspects describe the angles between planets in your chart, highlighting where there is harmony or tension in your life. The orb degree determines how strongly an aspect will affect you, with smaller orbs indicating a stronger influence.
Moon Trine Uranus
Orb: 0.2°
Ken Burns's emotional life has a spark of originality that keeps it vibrant. He's comfortable with change and novelty in his inner world — he embraces unusual feelings and unconventional emotional connections with a curiosity that makes his life richer.
Mercury Conjunction Mars
Orb: 0.5°
Ken Burns's mind is sharp, direct, and quick to engage — he thinks fast and speaks with conviction. There's a combative edge to his intellect that makes him great at debate and decisive thinking, though learning when to soften his delivery can make his words even more powerful.
Venus Sextile Pluto
Orb: 1.6°
Ken Burns has a quiet magnetism and emotional depth that makes his connections with others feel meaningful. He's naturally perceptive in love — he can read between the lines and he's not afraid of the deeper, more complicated parts of intimacy.
Venus Trine Saturn
Orb: 2.4°
Ken Burns has a quiet, enduring approach to love that builds something real over time. Loyalty and dependability come naturally to him, and his relationships tend to be stable and lasting. He understands that true love is a practice, not just a feeling.
Venus Trine Neptune
Orb: 2.7°
Ken Burns experiences love as something almost sacred, and his romantic life has a poetic, ethereal quality. He's deeply empathetic and artistically gifted, and his ability to see beauty in the everyday world gives his relationships a tenderness that most people only dream of.
Venus Conjunction Jupiter
Orb: 5.9°
Ken Burns has a generous, expansive heart and a natural talent for finding joy in life. Love, pleasure, and abundance feel like they go hand in hand for him — he believes in big love, and his optimism in relationships tends to attract good things.
Sun Conjunction Mars
Orb: 6.3°
Ken Burns leads with action and instinct — there's a boldness woven into who he is. He has a natural drive to assert himself, compete, and make things happen, and tends to feel most alive when he's actively pursuing something.
Sun Conjunction Mercury
Orb: 6.9°
Ken Burns's mind and identity are fused — he thinks, therefore he is. He expresses himself with conviction and tends to see the world through the lens of his own ideas, which makes him a compelling communicator but sometimes a little too attached to his own perspective.
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Moon Square Jupiter
Orb: 1.6°
Ken Burns feels everything in a big way, and his emotional responses can sometimes be out of proportion to the situation. He may overindulge or overcommit when he's feeling generous — but this same expansiveness gives him an enormous capacity for joy, faith, and emotional resilience.
Mars Opposition North Node
Orb: 3.1°
Ken Burns's will and his destiny sometimes face off. He may charge ahead in a direction that opposes his growth, or feel like his desires and his purpose are in a tug of war. The awareness that comes from this polarity teaches him to act with both passion and alignment.
Sun Opposition North Node
Orb: 3.2°
Ken Burns's identity and his destiny sit on opposite ends of a spectrum, creating a need to balance who he is with who he's becoming. He might sometimes feel like his ego pulls him away from his purpose, but through that contrast, he develops a richer sense of self.
Mercury Opposition North Node
Orb: 3.6°
Ken Burns's mind and his destiny can feel like they're working from different playbooks. He might rationalize away the very leaps of faith his purpose demands, or struggle to articulate what his soul already knows. Growth comes from bridging intellect and intuitive direction.
Moon Square Venus
Orb: 4.3°
Love and comfort don't always come in the package Ken Burns expects. There can be a tension between what makes him feel safe and what he finds attractive or desirable — but this friction pushes him to develop a more honest and mature relationship with both love and self-worth.
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The zodiac signs are categorized into two categories: Elements and Modalities. The higher the percentage you have of each, the more you embody that trait.
Fire (22%)
Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
Earth (0%)
Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
Air (33%)
Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
Water (44%)
Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
Cardinal (44%)
Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn
Fixed (22%)
Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius
Mutable (33%)
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces
