Sarah Bernhardt (October 22, 1844 – March 26, 1923)

This woman is waaaay before my present time. In fact, I wouldn’t normally have thought about her, at all, except for a comment made by Ian McKellen made during a National Television Awards program, which spoke about it being 100 years since her death. Sarah Bernhardt was everyone’s favourite actress.

Supposedly, the 2 a.m. birth time was written on her birth certificate. I’ll go with that, too, just because it has some interesting planetary aspects. There is one inconjunct, linking the Moon and Mercury.

Moon Inconjunct Mercury

It may be hard for you to put your feelings into words, because your emotions are so different from your intellect. Of course, there is nothing really strange about your feelings, but that part of your mind is quite different from the reasoning part. In fact it would be very unfortunate if you decided to listen only to your reason, because your intuition and imagination, both of which are more related to the Moon, can be of great assistance to you. They can tell you much about the world that your reasoning mind cannot.

I’m going to suggest that the Moon being in opposition to the Ascendant gives her that emotional edge.

Sarah Lancashire (October 10, 1964)

Now this is a hint from the Universe that may yet yield a new way of looking at reincarnation: Sarah Lancashire is a English actress I have watched over the years, especially when she was on “Coronation Street”. It could be that I always knew there was something ‘special’ about her, but what exactly is it?

Although this chart timing is randomized, I wonder if it might also be accurate, as the Moon is in the 1st House (of Personality), just under 4° from her Sagittarius Ascendant. Hmm. Here is her acceptance speech from the same National Television awards program:

Isn’t she lovely?

How Do the Charts from These Two Sarah’s Line Up?

There are a couple of strong links between them, the most startling being Bernhardt’s natal North Node and Lancashire’s Ascendant. (And yet that could be totally derailed if Sarah Lancashire’s birth time is wrong.) Lancashire’s Mercury is almost exactly conjunct Bernhardt’s natal Mercury. Lancashire’s Sun is conjunct Bernhardt’s ‘fatal’ Saturn. Lancashire’s Neptune is conjunct Bernhardt’s ‘fatal’ Jupiter, and opposite Bernhardt’s ‘fatal’ Mars. Finally, Lancashire’s natal Mars is conjunct Bernhardt’s ‘fatal’ Neptune.

So, going out on a limb again, this may show an affinity between these two actresses, even an inspiration of one by the other, but perhaps not really reincarnation. Do you see how my thinking has shifted? Sarah Lancashire is an emotional performer, too, but now it doesn’t rule her.