Birth Chart
Elena Garro
Elena Delifina Garro Navarro
Sun Sagittarius
Moon Cancer
Ascendant Leo
Influences in signs
↣ Sun in Sagittarius - 19°50' - in house 5
↣ Moon in Cancer - 19°08' - in house 12
↣ Mercury in Sagittarius - 29°49' - in house 5
↣ Venus in Scorpio - 17°27' - in house 4
↣ Mars in Capricorn - 07°59' - in house 5
↣ Jupiter in Aries - 25°34' - in house 9 - retrograde
↣ Saturn in Cancer - 29°47' - in house 12 - retrograde
↣ Uranus in Aquarius - 16°41' - in house 7
↣ Neptune in Leo - 04°34' - in house 12 - retrograde
↣ Pluto in Cancer - 03°38' - in house 11 - retrograde
↣ North Node in Capricorn - 20°00' - in house 6 - retrograde
↣ Ascendant in Leo - 19°25' - in house 1
↣ Midheaven in Taurus - 18°59' - in house 10
↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Leo - 14°04'
Influences in houses
↣ Sun in house 5
↣ Moon in house 12
↣ Mercury in house 5
↣ Venus in house 4
↣ Mars in house 5
↣ Jupiter in house 9
↣ Saturn in house 12
↣ Uranus in house 7
↣ Neptune in house 12
↣ Pluto in house 11
↣ North Node in house 6
↣ Ascendant in house 1
↣ Midheaven in house 10
Aspects
↣ Sun and Moon antiparallel
↣ Sun and Mercury conjunction (9°58' separating)
↣ Sun and Mars parallel
↣ Sun and Jupiter trine (5°44' applying)
↣ Sun and Uranus sextile (3°08' separating)
↣ Sun and North Node parallel
↣ Sun and Equatorial Ascendant trine (5°46' applying)
↣ Sun and Ascendant trine (0°25' applying)
↣ Moon and Venus trine (1°41' separating)
↣ Moon and Jupiter square (6°25' applying)
↣ Moon and North Node opposition (0°52' applying) antiparallel
↣ Moon and Midheaven sextile (0°09' applying)
↣ Mercury and Mars conjunction (8°10' applying)
↣ Mercury and Jupiter trine (4°15' separating)
↣ Mercury and Pluto opposition (3°50' applying)
↣ Venus and Uranus square (0°45' separating)
↣ Venus and North Node sextile (2°33' applying)
↣ Venus and Equatorial Ascendant square (3°23' applying)
↣ Venus and Ascendant square (1°58' separating) antiparallel
↣ Venus and Midheaven opposition (1°33' separating)
↣ Mars and Pluto opposition (4°20' separating)
↣ Jupiter and Saturn square (4°13' applying)
↣ Jupiter and North Node square (5°34' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Ascendant trine (6°08' applying)
↣ Saturn and Neptune conjunction (4°47' separating)
↣ Uranus and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (2°38' applying)
↣ Uranus and Ascendant opposition (2°44' separating)
↣ Uranus and Midheaven square (2°18' separating) antiparallel
↣ Neptune and Pluto parallel
↣ Neptune and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (9°30' separating)
↣ North Node and Midheaven trine (1°00' applying)
Birth data
- Original name
- Elena Delifina Garro Navarro
- Chart date
- 11/12/1916
- Chart time
- 21:44
- Date and time quality
- AA Birth record in hand what does this mean?
- Data origin
- Astro-Databank
- Location
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Puebla, Mexico - Latitude and longitude
- 19°03' North · 98°10' West
- Time zone
- 06:33 West
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About
Elena Garro was a multifaceted Mexican writer: novelist, short-story author, playwright, screenwriter and journalist. Her work, marked by prose close to poetry, is among the earliest expressions of what is commonly called magical realism in Latin America, with key titles such as Un hogar sólido, Los recuerdos del porvenir and La semana de colores. Although she rejected the label, her writing engages with the surreal and with dramatic techniques, aligning her with European references and the theatre of the absurd.
Throughout her career she played a notable role in university theatre and experimental cinema, and pursued studies at Berkeley and the Sorbonne. Her personal life — including her marriage to Octavio Paz and participation in intellectual events such as the 1937 Congress in Spain — shaped both her work and its critical reception. In the 1960s and 1970s she faced ostracism and self-imposed exile amid political controversy, which interrupted her public activity for long periods.
Awarded prizes such as the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in 1996, Garro left a literary legacy that is now reassessed as central to understanding the Mexican and Latin American literary landscape of the twentieth century, inspiring studies on language, memory and revolutionary violence.
