Julia Child brought French cooking to American households. Her astrological signature is strongly Cancerian. The Cancer archetype is the Cancer zodiac sign, ruled by the Moon and the natural house is the fourth. It is associated with mothers and infants. Belonging. The name Julia means “youthful” or “Jove’s child”. Her last name Child is just a restatement of her first name.
Cooking is often denoted in one of two ways. Taurus, fixed earth, is the zodiac sign of cereal and material sustenance. This is where we look for food itself. Cancer, cardinal water, is the zodiac sign of nurturing, belonging and emotional sustenance. Anthony Bourdain was on a quest for Tauran food. Julia Child expressed emotional sustenance through her display of Cancerian cooking.
Julia, a Leo Sun, was a fourth house Sun and she also had a stellium in the fourth house. This is a very strong signature of Cancer. The fourth house are places of Cancer. The home kitchen is a fourth house place. Strongly associated with the mother. Mom’s kitchen is a very common archetype that children love to haunt. Leo Suns are known by their reputation. Julia Child was the Cancerian child. She appears as a sensible person who made her cooking into an art. She had a Libra Moon conjunct the south node in the fifth house. She put the art of cooking on the stage and made herself the famous ambassador to Americans for French cooking. Her actual home kitchen where she filmed her shows is now on display at the Smithsonian. Cooking from her home kitchen. Sun in the fourth house.
The Cancer Neptune is the ideal of motherhood and childhood. Her Cancer Neptune is the apex planet of a Thor’s Hammer chart aspect. The apex planet would be the spot that Hammer hits before it returns to your hand. That is the blow you will deal.
The Sagittarius Juno in the seventh is the representation of her karma that she would live in France during the early years of her marriage. This is further reinforced by Juno’s conjunction to Jupiter, her mythological husband. Juno squares her Pisces Chiron in the tenth. This is her multiple attempts to gain mastery. Chiron never stops trying to heal his wound. Likely Julia never was able to cook something that continued to elude her. This is echoed in her Saturn square to her ruling planet, the retrograde Virgo Mercury. She had never learned to cook and reached the age of 36 before she discovered her love of cooking. Her karma suggests she had failed to learn to cook in a previous life. Retrograde Virgo Mercury. The blocks Juno and Chiron gave her inevitably created the strong force, the Thor’s Hammer, to bring French cooking to her homeland. The ninth house is foreign lands and its opposing third house is your homeland, your neighborhood. The Thor’s Hammer hits the Cancer Neptune in the third. Cooking fantasy in the neighborhood. Take that America, the Art of French Cooking.
A child’s first lessons in cooking. Julia Child is simply the child learning to master cooking. Gemini Ascendant ruled by the retrograde Virgo Mercury conjunct Venus in the fourth. The Learner ruled by the love of learning in the kitchen. Leo Sun in the fourth. Child in the kitchen.