The astrology of dance 💃💋
As someone who loves dancing and has been doing it since i was a child (sun conj venus in the 5h), i've always been intrigued by what in dancers' chart indicates dancing abilities.
I gathered 20 of the most famous dancers across centuries by going through reputable articles (no tiktok dancers lmao) and looked into the signs in their personal planets with a focus on venus/mars aspects since venus is about art and mars is about the body/energy. It took me hours to select the dancers, look up their chart, write down the aspects/signs then do the analysis (my scorpio 5h pulled me through it so if you copy my work, i'll hex).
Also THIS IS CORRELATION AND NOT CAUSATION. You can have none of these placements and still be an awesome dancer and you can have them all and not be that good of a dancer. Please keep that in mind and don't let this stop you from doing what you want. Anyone can dance. When there is will, there is way.
💃🕺 The dancers are : anna pavlova, micheal jackson, fred astaire, martha graham, misty copeland, maddie ziegler, vaslav nijinsky, mikhail baryshnikov, maria tallchief, shakira, maurice béjart, marie-claude pietragalla, rudolf nureyev, benjamin millepied, patrick dupond, sergei polunin, alicia markova, margot fonteyn, isadora duncan and ginger rogers.
* Also keep in mind birthtime accuracy is usually poor so I couldn't look at houses and rising signs. Aspects are major only (trine/sextile/conjunction/square/opposition).
Let's get into iittt!
MARS 🏃♀️
Mars is all about energy, drive, motivation and is also representative of one's body and how one moves it. It is imperative to study it carefully to see what pattern jumps out among our sample of dancers.
MARS signs are : Cap, taurus, Leo, Pisces, Scorpio, virgo, Aries, virgo,Aries, Cap, taurus, Leo, taurus, Taurus, Gem, Scorpio, scorpio, Taurus, aqua, taurus.
DOMINANT MARS MODALITY : FIXED
The most dominant modality is fixed, which can make sense : whereas cardinal mars enjoys STARTING endeavors but doesn't necessarily stick to it and mutable mars is interested in SO many endeavors and can quickly move from one thing to the next, searching for the next best thing and having their energy impacted by their peers. Fixed mars sticks to the projects it starts and refuses to back away until it's done and perfected. Dance is the perfect example of that : it requires patience and practice, rehearsing a move over and over again.
DOMINANT MARS ELEMENT : EARTH
This can be a shock to many but earth was the element that kept showing up in dancers charts, not creative intuitive water, innovative changeable air or energetic ambitious fire. This goes to show earth is just as creative and possesses potential to excel in arts as much as the rest. Earth gives stability and grounds, plus, air is more mental and fire can give lots of energy that might not be properly channeled and end up being disorganized. Earth is sensual, there is a reason mars is exalted in an earth sign, combining energy with body and what is physical and material.
MOST DOMINANT MARS SIGN : TAURUS
With everything i said earlier, what better sign combines being fixed and sensual? Taurus. It's also ruled by Venus that loves arts, pleasure and leisure.
DATA
12/20 are fixed (60%) and half of them are TAURUS only (30%)
10/20 are earth (50%)
Fire/water are present equally and represent 4/20 (1 out of 5 or 20% is either fire or water mars)
Mutable and cardinal are also present equally 4/20 (1 out of 5 or 20% is either mutable or cardinal mars)
Air is the least dominant element with only 2/20 being air mars (1%)
MOST COMMON MARS ASPECTS
Stopping at the aspects that show up just 20% of the time.
1. Mars - Chiron (seen half the time so 50% )
Mars-chiron was almost consistent in all studied charts. Chiron, symbolizing one's wound but also where you heal others, means healing others through the body, the latter being put through pain. Dance, as elegant as it seems on stage, is the fruit of weeks, if not months, of consistent effort, sweat being poured, cramps all over muscles, synchronizing and practicing until you run out of breath. All this bodily pain turns into something beautiful, majestic, therapeutic and healing. You heal when you see beauty, you momentarily forget whatever is plaguing your mind and let yourself be raptured in the moment, tucked away in a bubble of bliss, drawing satisfaction from watching every beat being hit.
2. Mars- Uranus (seen almost half the time 9/20 so 45% )
Mars, being touched by the genius of Uranus, creates shocking moves. Moving one's body in a way that draws attention, being ahead of one's time with the introduction of ground-breaking new moves to the era's popular routines. Moving in alien fashion. Unexpected steps.
3. Mars - Pluto (seen 7/20 of the time so 35% )
Pluto intensifies what it touches, and can make you obsessed with it. It adds power and influence. Moreover, pluto is associated with all that is taboo, so touching mars which signifies the body, can explain why dancers, in some cultures and in the past, are/used to be shamed. Moving provocatively can trigger sexual feelings in both the dancer and the audience, feelings that could have been repressed for so long. It draws out what it carnal and hidden to the surface.
3. Mars - sun/moon/saturn (seen 5/20 of the time so 25%)
Mars is body and sun/moon/saturn have structure in common, sun structures the identity and self-expression, moon structures the emotional identity and saturn gives structure to all. In addition, Saturn gives resilience, something that anyone who tried learning a routine knows oh so well. It puts you through pain to teach you how to perfect what you're doing, it might delay and frustrates, just so you know the basics and work through restrictions. Mars-sun : one's identity is tied to one's endeavors and body, it can show a knack at sports and dance can in fact be thought of as a form of sports. Mars-moon : a need for movement, finding solace and comfort in it.
4. Mars - Jupiter (seen 4/20 of the time so 20%)
Whatever jupiter touches expands, it gives wisdom and luck. Mars-jupiter can be optimistic about the way they move and what they do. A much needed optimism to pull through the hurdles and move in a bigger-than-life fashion. Moving abundantly and feeling wealthy in it. Having a reservoir of energy to tap into.
VENUS 🍭
Arts and beauty, dance embodies Venus' principle all too well. Dance is also prominent in social settings and a way to let our inner social butterfly flutter its wings (clubs, weddings, parties and the like).
VENUS signs : Aries, leo, Aries, Aries, virgo, Scorpio, Taurus, pisces, Cap, Aries, Cap, Sag, Aries, taurus, aries, Cap, Sag, Cancer, Gem, Virgo.
MOST DOMINANT VENUS MODALITY : CARDINAL
The most dominant modality is cardinal, not being afraid of starting what you are interested in. Leading and taking a step (pun intended) towards what gives you joy and what you find beautiful.
MOST DOMINANT VENUS ELEMENT :FIRE
Fire is ambition, drive and energy. Having a fire venus is being passionate about your interests and your creative hobbies. A passion that is strong enough to test your boundaries and outdo yourself. Being energetic and fiery when it comes to pleasure and leisure activity.
Earth comes next with 7/20 of the dancers having an earth venus.
MOST DOMINANT VENUS SIGN : ARIES
Aries combines enthusiastic fire and leading cardinal. It makes you passionate and have the potential to lead and be, in a sense, a warrior when it comes to what gives you joy.
DATA
Fire is seen 10/20 so in half the sample
Cardinal is also witnessed 10/20 of the time
Earth is seen 7/20 of the time
A mix of the rest of elements/modalities.
MOST DOMINANT VENUS ASPECTS
Stopping at the aspects that only show up 20% of the time.
1. Venus - jupiter (seen 8/20 of the time so 40%)
Just like mars, jupiter is favorable when it comes to the universe of dance. It inflates and gives meaning, it makes you optimistic and expands the significance of what it touches. So venus-jupiter can indulge and immerse themselves in what venus stands for, for dance, arts, beauty, pleasure. It can make you greedy to do more and more regarding to this.
2. Venus - moon/mars (seen 7/20 of the time so 35% )
Feeling nurtured when tending to Venus matters, venus-moon dancers can find comfort in all forms of arts or grew up in an environment that is heavily venusian, thus exposing them to dance from a young age. Their moms could have been venusian and inspired them to take this path. Venus-mars reflects acting out beauty and arts through the body.
3. Venus - chiron/mercury/pluto (seen 6/20 of the time so 30%)
Venus-chiron : feeling pain but also healing others through your artistic interests. Others may doubt your abilities and cause you anguish and get you to doubt yourself and teeter on the verge of giving up. Especially when it's a hobby that isn't seen as traditionally lucrative as dance. Venus-mercury : thinking about Venusian matters, communicating in a beautiful fashion. Venus - pluto : being obsessed about hobbies and arts, doing it intensely with no black or white areas.
4. Venus - Saturn (seen 5/20 of the time so 25%)
The need to structure the hobbies, a practical approach to going about them and perfecting them, hobbies that resist the test of time and can last a lifetime, being resilient and unwilling to back down when it comes to dance.
5. Venus - Uranus (seen 4/20 of the time so 20%)
Revolutionary dance, shocking, trail-blazing. Paving the way to the newer generations of dancers, quirky and unique. Standing out of the crowd in social situations.
PERSONAL PLANETS EXCEPT VENUS AND MARS
🎼 Sun/moon/mercury :
Aqua leo pisces
Virgo pisces leo
Taurus gem aries
Taurus leo taurus
Virgo gem libra
Libra cancer libra
Pisces cancer aqua
Aqua leo aqua
Aqua aqua cap
Aqua cancer cap
Cap sag sag
Aqua taurus cap
Pisces libra aries
Gem aries taurus
Pisces taurus aries
Scorpio virgo sag
Sag sag sag
Taurus sag taurus
Gem sag gem
Cancer pisces leo
MOST DOMINANT SIGNS IN SUN/MOON/MERCURY
1. Taurus/Aquarius (6 times)
having fixed energy to not give up easily, loving the fine things in life, being musically inclined.
2. Leo/ Pisces/ Sagittarius (5 times)
Self-expression, basking in attention, casting a spell, constantly learning and expanding.
3. Gemini/ Cancer / Capricorn (4 times)
Not being afraid of change, in tune with emotions and channeling them when dancing, ambition and hard work.
SUN ☀️
- MOST DOMINANT SUN SIGN: AQUARIUS (5/20)
- MOST DOMINANT SUN MODALITY : FIXED (9/20)
MOON 🌑
-MOST DOMINANT MOON SIGN : SAGITTARIUS (4/20)
-MOST DOMINANT MOON MODALITY : MUTABLE (9/20)
So when taking ALL personal planets into consideration (sun/moon/mercury/venus/mars), the most common signs are :
Taurus (11/20)
Aqua/ leo/ pisces/ aries (7/20)
Cap/ sag (6/20)
Gem/ cancer/ virgo (5/20)
💋 Dancers in the astrology community, let me know what you think and thanks for reading!! 💞
