Nathan Lane
Outrageous, flamboyant, hysterical? Yes. Impersonal, detached, intellectual? No. How can Nathan Lane, an Aquarius, come off as so ... un-Aquarian?
Aquarius is not the ideal placement for the Sun, and especially for Mr. Lane. The Sun is happiest in Leo, where it can shine in the spotlight. Opposite from Leo is Aquarius. Whereas Leo is dramatic and theatrical, Aquarius is distant and cerebral. If Leo is the performer, Aquarius is the audience, the group. Although the Aquarius will do his own thing, dress different, and stand out from the crowd, he would not be loud and proud.
So what makes Nathan Lane tick? With Cancer rising, his persona is emotional with a tendency to withdraw to protect himself. His Moon, which is the ruler of his chart--what he has to live out to feel fulfilled--is in intense, secretive Scorpio in the fifth house of play and performance. (Neptune, the planet ruling his career house, is also placed in the fifth house.) It is certainly in the house naturally corresponding with Leo that Lane shines. Scorpio gives him a powerful, charismatic presence, but also lends to feelings of resentment and difficulty letting go of grudges. A perfect example is his signature song in The Producers, "Betrayed." Down-and-out Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Lane) and his accountant Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick) concoct a brilliant plan to create a sure-fire flop, and pocket all their investors' money. After their plan fails, Bloom splits New York with his lover Ulla (Uma Thurman) and the money, leaving Bialystock in prison. In addition to indicating the torment of being let down by his business partner, Scorpio (and the Scorpionic eighth house, where Lane's Sun resides) rules other people's money (investments in the show), as well as the numerous sexual acts Bialystock must perform with little old ladies to procure the funds for the production.
The dramatic fifth house emphasis is strengthened with Jupiter in Leo. Lane expands (Jupiter) through theatricality (Leo), and has the good fortune (Jupiter) of getting validation and kudos (Leo). Moreover, Jupiter sits in his third house of communication, which is obviously his biggest strength. However, the planet of exaggeration makes a stressful angle to Saturn in Sagittarius. Saturn feels a deficiency in Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius, the realm of expansiveness and optimism. The dark-side of Sag is going overboard, of going too far; Saturn, in his need to overcompensate to make up for his feeling of lack, enables this. Both Leo and Sag are inspirational fire signs. Moreover, Jupiter humorously makes light of the suffering that Saturn knows too well. With these two social planets in hard aspect to each other, Lane is apt to go for the BIG laughs, to be larger than life. This approach usually works--no doubt it is part of his signature--but it can devolve into abrasiveness when he goes too far.
Aquarius is ruled by the outer planet Uranus. The experience of sudden insight, the "Eureka! I've got it!" moment, is governed by Uranus, as are sudden unexpected twists. Aquarius is capable of moments of brilliance, of thinking out-of-line with society's expectations. Bialystock's Aquarian moment occurs when he has the idea of producing a sure-fire flop. Later in the film, the totally out-of-left-field result that Springtime for Hitler was a runaway success fits this archetype. Another totally unexpected moment in one of Lane's more famous films occurs in The Bird Cage. Lane plays Albert Goldman, a man in a long-term relationship with his lover Armand (Robin Williams), who owns a drag cabaret. Armand's son is engaged to be married, and the fiance's parents are conservative, so the son asks Armand to hide his homosexuality. Armand is willing to do this, and asks the flamboyant Albert, who cannot for the life of him pass as straight, to disappear for the evening. Instead, Albert comes out to dinner dressed as Armand's wife, managing to convince the fiance's parents that he is the real thing.
With Venus in romantic Pisces, Moon in intense Scorpio and sensitive Cancer rising--all water signs--much of Lane's personality is at odds with his solar identity. In fact, like Jupiter and Saturn, his Moon and Sun also make a stressful angle to each other, in which it feels like expression of one part of himself comes at the cost of inhibiting the other. The battle between his Scorpio Moon and Aquarius Sun involves the universal push-pull between intimacy and freedom, but for him it feels irresolvable. Lane has six of these squares (planets at ninety degree angles from each other) between planets in his chart. More than any other aspect, the friction of the square forces us to take action to resolve our conflicts. No doubt Lane's success is in part due to all this tension, but his is not an easy life. He is not called a sad clown for nothing.
Nathan Lane: Born February 3, 1956 at 2:29 pm in Jersey City, NJ.
This essay originally appeared in the Aquarius 2006 issue of Constellation magazine.
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Aquarius is not the ideal placement for the Sun, and especially for Mr. Lane. The Sun is happiest in Leo, where it can shine in the spotlight. Opposite from Leo is Aquarius. Whereas Leo is dramatic and theatrical, Aquarius is distant and cerebral. If Leo is the performer, Aquarius is the audience, the group. Although the Aquarius will do his own thing, dress different, and stand out from the crowd, he would not be loud and proud.
So what makes Nathan Lane tick? With Cancer rising, his persona is emotional with a tendency to withdraw to protect himself. His Moon, which is the ruler of his chart--what he has to live out to feel fulfilled--is in intense, secretive Scorpio in the fifth house of play and performance. (Neptune, the planet ruling his career house, is also placed in the fifth house.) It is certainly in the house naturally corresponding with Leo that Lane shines. Scorpio gives him a powerful, charismatic presence, but also lends to feelings of resentment and difficulty letting go of grudges. A perfect example is his signature song in The Producers, "Betrayed." Down-and-out Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Lane) and his accountant Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick) concoct a brilliant plan to create a sure-fire flop, and pocket all their investors' money. After their plan fails, Bloom splits New York with his lover Ulla (Uma Thurman) and the money, leaving Bialystock in prison. In addition to indicating the torment of being let down by his business partner, Scorpio (and the Scorpionic eighth house, where Lane's Sun resides) rules other people's money (investments in the show), as well as the numerous sexual acts Bialystock must perform with little old ladies to procure the funds for the production.
The dramatic fifth house emphasis is strengthened with Jupiter in Leo. Lane expands (Jupiter) through theatricality (Leo), and has the good fortune (Jupiter) of getting validation and kudos (Leo). Moreover, Jupiter sits in his third house of communication, which is obviously his biggest strength. However, the planet of exaggeration makes a stressful angle to Saturn in Sagittarius. Saturn feels a deficiency in Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius, the realm of expansiveness and optimism. The dark-side of Sag is going overboard, of going too far; Saturn, in his need to overcompensate to make up for his feeling of lack, enables this. Both Leo and Sag are inspirational fire signs. Moreover, Jupiter humorously makes light of the suffering that Saturn knows too well. With these two social planets in hard aspect to each other, Lane is apt to go for the BIG laughs, to be larger than life. This approach usually works--no doubt it is part of his signature--but it can devolve into abrasiveness when he goes too far.
Aquarius is ruled by the outer planet Uranus. The experience of sudden insight, the "Eureka! I've got it!" moment, is governed by Uranus, as are sudden unexpected twists. Aquarius is capable of moments of brilliance, of thinking out-of-line with society's expectations. Bialystock's Aquarian moment occurs when he has the idea of producing a sure-fire flop. Later in the film, the totally out-of-left-field result that Springtime for Hitler was a runaway success fits this archetype. Another totally unexpected moment in one of Lane's more famous films occurs in The Bird Cage. Lane plays Albert Goldman, a man in a long-term relationship with his lover Armand (Robin Williams), who owns a drag cabaret. Armand's son is engaged to be married, and the fiance's parents are conservative, so the son asks Armand to hide his homosexuality. Armand is willing to do this, and asks the flamboyant Albert, who cannot for the life of him pass as straight, to disappear for the evening. Instead, Albert comes out to dinner dressed as Armand's wife, managing to convince the fiance's parents that he is the real thing.
With Venus in romantic Pisces, Moon in intense Scorpio and sensitive Cancer rising--all water signs--much of Lane's personality is at odds with his solar identity. In fact, like Jupiter and Saturn, his Moon and Sun also make a stressful angle to each other, in which it feels like expression of one part of himself comes at the cost of inhibiting the other. The battle between his Scorpio Moon and Aquarius Sun involves the universal push-pull between intimacy and freedom, but for him it feels irresolvable. Lane has six of these squares (planets at ninety degree angles from each other) between planets in his chart. More than any other aspect, the friction of the square forces us to take action to resolve our conflicts. No doubt Lane's success is in part due to all this tension, but his is not an easy life. He is not called a sad clown for nothing.
Nathan Lane: Born February 3, 1956 at 2:29 pm in Jersey City, NJ.
This essay originally appeared in the Aquarius 2006 issue of Constellation magazine.
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