Birth Chart
Colleen McCullough
Sun Gemini
Moon Pisces
Ascendant Capricorn
Influences in signs
↣ Sun in Gemini - 10°28' - in house 6
↣ Moon in Pisces - 00°17' - in house 3
↣ Mercury in Taurus - 17°44' - in house 5
↣ Venus in Aries - 28°02' - in house 4/5
↣ Mars in Scorpio - 24°01' - in house 11 - retrograde
↣ Jupiter in Capricorn - 26°52' - in house 1 - retrograde
↣ Saturn in Aries - 03°26' - in house 4
↣ Uranus in Taurus - 11°22' - in house 5
↣ Neptune in Virgo - 16°11' - in house 9
↣ Pluto in Cancer - 27°04' - in house 7
↣ North Node in Sagittarius - 15°08' - in house 12
↣ Ascendant in Capricorn - 15°01' - in house 1
↣ Midheaven in Libra - 00°59' - in house 10
↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Capricorn - 00°50'
Influences in houses
↣ Sun in house 6
↣ Moon in house 3
↣ Mercury in house 5
↣ Venus in house 4/5
↣ Mars in house 11
↣ Jupiter in house 1
↣ Saturn in house 4
↣ Uranus in house 5
↣ Neptune in house 9
↣ Pluto in house 7
↣ North Node in house 12
↣ Ascendant in house 1
↣ Midheaven in house 10
Aspects
↣ Sun and Jupiter antiparallel
↣ Sun and Neptune square (5°44' applying)
↣ Sun and Pluto parallel
↣ Sun and North Node opposition (4°40' applying) antiparallel
↣ Sun and Ascendant antiparallel
↣ Moon and Venus sextile (2°16' separating)
↣ Moon and Mars square (6°17' separating)
↣ Moon and Neptune antiparallel
↣ Moon and Equatorial Ascendant sextile (0°32' separating)
↣ Mercury and Mars opposition (6°16' applying)
↣ Mercury and Uranus conjunction (6°23' separating)
↣ Mercury and Neptune trine (1°34' separating)
↣ Mercury and Ascendant trine (2°43' applying)
↣ Venus and Jupiter square (1°09' separating)
↣ Venus and Pluto square (0°58' separating)
↣ Venus and Equatorial Ascendant trine (2°48' separating)
↣ Mars and Jupiter sextile (2°52' separating) parallel
↣ Mars and Pluto trine (3°03' separating)
↣ Jupiter and Pluto opposition (0°11' separating)
↣ Jupiter and Midheaven trine (4°06' separating)
↣ Saturn and Equatorial Ascendant square (2°36' applying) parallel
↣ Saturn and Midheaven opposition (2°27' applying) parallel
↣ Uranus and Neptune trine (4°49' applying)
↣ Uranus and Ascendant trine (3°39' separating)
↣ Neptune and North Node square (1°03' applying)
↣ Neptune and Ascendant trine (1°09' applying)
↣ Pluto and North Node antiparallel
↣ Pluto and Ascendant antiparallel
↣ Pluto and Midheaven sextile (3°55' separating)
↣ North Node and Ascendant parallel
Birth data
- Chart date
- 01/06/1937
- Chart time
- 19:30
- Date and time quality
- A Memory what does this mean?
- Data origin
- Astro-Databank
- Location
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Wellington, Australia - Latitude and longitude
- 32°33' South · 148°57' East
- Time zone
- 10:00 East
The data used to calculate the charts comes from public sources, as do the descriptive texts. We use sources such as Wikipedia.
About
Colleen McCullough was an Australian writer whose work reached enormous popular audiences from the 1970s through the 2000s. Trained in neurophysiology, she worked in hospitals and as a researcher, including at the Yale School of Medicine, before devoting herself fully to writing. She published 25 novels across several genres—romance, mystery, and historical fiction—and became world‑famous for The Thorn Birds (1977), which sold more than 30 million copies and was adapted into a highly successful television miniseries.
Commercial success put McCullough in an internationally prominent position; she received honors in Australia, including being named one of the 100 National Living Treasures and appointment to the Order of Australia. Although her books enjoyed broad popular acceptance, they attracted relatively little academic attention and are generally classified as popular fiction.
After The Thorn Birds she moved to Norfolk Island, where she lived for the rest of her life and was actively involved in local affairs, advocating for the island’s culture and some degree of autonomy for its people. Her most ambitious work included the Masters of Rome series, an extensive venture into historical fiction set in ancient Rome, which cemented her reputation as an author with wide readership and international reach.
