Richard Burton's Birth Chart: Scorpio Sun

Pluto in Cancer breaks and remakes the family, the home and the nation.

Neptune in Leo idealizes glamour, romance and the figure on the stage.

The Moon in Virgo settles through order, usefulness and being needed.

Mars in Libra acts through persuasion, and avoids the direct fight.

Saturn in Scorpio endures a great deal, and trusts almost nobody quickly.

The Sun in Scorpio builds identity through intensity, privacy and depth.

Mercury in Sagittarius thinks in big pictures and loses patience with the detail.

Venus in Capricorn takes love seriously, and proves it slowly rather than loudly.

Jupiter in Capricorn grows slowly, and trusts only what it can prove.

Uranus in Pisces loosens spiritual assumptions and changes what art can be.

Identity bound to duty and limit, producing early seriousness and a hard inner standard.

Confidence and opportunity in easy flow, which rewards effort and quietly discourages it.

Growth and structure in easy agreement, giving realistic judgment usually spent administering.

Discipline and power in easy agreement, strategic and enduring, applying control without questioning it.

Mind and feeling at odds, producing nervous tension and, under pressure, unusual precision with words.

Power and identity in easy agreement, giving quiet authority and insight that is seldom examined.

Action and imagination in easy agreement, inspired and unforced, and easily left entirely unused.

Growth and originality in easy agreement, open to change and usually adopting rather than originating.

Belief in conflict with power, coercive and crusading until the appetite for control is faced.

Independence and identity in easy agreement, giving effortless originality that can stay unused.

Order and innovation in easy agreement, modernizing carefully and stopping short of structural change.

Affection and need in easy agreement, likable and warm, with the repair skills left undeveloped.