Mazal Virgo · rising Cancer
Cameron Diaz's mazal
American actress — born 30 August 1972 at 2:53 am, in San Diego
20 Elul 5732
כ׳ אֱלוּל תשל״ב
Born before sunset, which fell at 7:16 pm that day in San Diego: her Hebrew date is that of the same day.
| Birth | 30 August 1972, 2:53 am, San Diego |
| Source of the time | birth certificate |
| Sunset | 7:16 pm that day |
| Hebrew date | 20 Elul 5732 |
| Hebrew month | Elul אֱלוּל |
| Sign (mazal) | Virgo בתולה |
| Rising sign | Cancer |
| Planet of the month | Mercury |
| Element | Earth |
| Tribe of Israel | Zebulun |
| Gemstone | The diamond (yahalom) |
Elul is the last month of the Hebrew year, the month of the reckoning: you look back over the year before it closes.
The chart in a paragraph
Virgo, rising Cancer
Elul, the month of the reckoning, under Mercury. Virgo is the right detail, the demand, the art of putting each thing back where it belongs. And Cancer was rising: the front is soft, warm, protective. A sky that tidies everything, smiling.
This is what tradition reads in that sky — and it sets its own limit at once: “Israel is above the mazal” (Shabbat 156a). A sky describes a slope, never a fate.
What tradition says
The month of Elul, not the person
What you read here describes a month of the Hebrew calendar: its mazal, its planet, its element, its tribe and its stone, as reported by the Talmud, the Book of Creation and the Book of the Angel Raziel. Nothing is asserted about Cameron Diaz's character — we give a date, a time, and what tradition attaches to the month. Not a portrait.
The rising sign does not depend on the month but on the time and the place: it is the sign that was climbing the eastern horizon at the moment of birth. It changes roughly every two hours — without an exact time it cannot be calculated. That is why this page only presents births whose hour is on record.
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