According to his Birth Certificate, actor and musician Jeremy Lee Renner was born in Modesto, California, at 11:06 AM on 7 January 1971. Early in 2023 he was in the national news because of a near-fatal accident in which he was run over by his snow plow on 1 January 2023 at his residence in a rural area of Nevada. Renner’s 14,000-pound PistenBully snow groomer ran him over when he tried to stop it from rolling toward his nephew. Given this dramatic and serious accident, I thought it would be interesting to see how William Frankland’s predictive techniques work in Renner’s AA rated birth chart.

In Frankland’s technique, Renner’s Primary Birth Number (the sum of all the birth digits): 7 January 1971 = 7 + 1 + 1 + 9 + 7 + 1 = 26, which reduces further to 2 + 6 = 8.

His Additional Birth Number (sum of his primary number added to the year of birth, then totaling the digits and further reducing): 26 + 1971 = 1997 = 1 + 9 + 9 + 7 = 26 (secondary), which reduces to 8. Then, 26 (primary) + 26 (secondary) + 8 (reduced secondary) = 60 (additional birth number, corresponding to 60 years old. He will turn 60 years old in January of 2031, which should be a highly significant period for him, that is, the period roughly from 7 Jan 2030 to 7 Jan 2032. Frankland considered the active period to be centered on the birthday date, plus or minus about 6 months to a year.

Other significant ages by combinations of birth numbers are 26 + 26 = 52 years old, and 26 + 8 = 34 years old. We can check what happened in the roughly year-long periods surrounding those birth dates.

Jeremy Renner was 34 years old in 2005 and turned 36 in January of 2006. He was awarded Best Actor at the 11th Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival on 28 April 2006 for his role in the film Neo Ned, which was released on 22 April 2005 when Renner was 34 years old.

Renner turned 52 years old on 7 January 2023. His near-fatal snow plow accident occurred on 1 January 2023, just 6 days before his birthday. He was airlifted to the hospital where he was treated for multiple fractured ribs and other bones, a collapsed lung, a broken cheekbone and eye socket, a pierced liver, and substantial blood loss. During his hospitalization, he was in critical condition, spent time in intensive care, and underwent two surgeries. Here is his birth chart:

Frankland began with a careful study of the natal chart. Several features stand out:

Aries (ruled by Mars in Scorpio in the 8th house ruled by Mars) rises, and the Asc-degree occupies the term (bound) of Jupiter in Scorpio in the 8th house. Mars in domicile is the only natal planet that possesses essential dignity in this chart. All other planets are peregrine.

Mars also rules Capricorn on the 10th cusp by exaltation. Asc-ruler Mars in Scorpio in the 8th sextiles the Sun in Capricorn in the 10th and opposes 10th-ruler Saturn in Taurus in the 2nd. Mars clearly dominates this chart and has a major influence on the character, temperament, body, health, physical well-being, career, actions, and undertakings of this individual. Typically, Mars is associated with action, energy, drive, initiative, leadership, courage, competitiveness, athleticism, independence, and assertiveness. With dominant Mars in its domicile Scorpio, the native is likely to be strategic, intense, deeply passionate, psychologically perceptive, highly focused and determined in achieving his goals.

Frankland was one of the first British astrologers to pay attention to midpoints. Having understood the importance of Mars in this chart, he would have noticed that Mars lies in close aspect to the Jupiter/Saturn midpoint (at 20 Aquarius 19′) and the MC/Uranus midpoint (at 22 Scorpio 46′). Here Saturn rules the 12th cusp and Jupiter rules Pisces which lies in the 12th house. In Frankland’s technique for measuring age along the zodiac from 0 Aries, 22 degrees of fixed signs corresponds to age 52.

Of concern is the fact the Mars occupies and rules the 8th house (risk of mortal danger) and also conjoins and disposits Jupiter, the 12th ruler which signifies confinement, hospitalization, undoing, etc. In addition, Morin de Villefranche noted that the ruler of the 1st house in the 8th indicates that the native may, through his own actions, voluntarily or inadvertently expose himself to mortal danger, sometimes resulting in a premature death (or near-death experience). Pluto is also about to station Rx in the sign Virgo.

Consonant with Mars ruling and occupying the 8th and conjunct 12-ruler Jupiter is the placement of Pluto conjunct the 7th cusp (profoundly transformative relationships) opposing the Asc-degree (the native’s bodily health) and Chiron (wounds) in a T-square formation with stationary Mercury, which rules Virgo in the 6th house of bodily ailments. The 6th house is also the derived 12th house from the 7th.

The 8th house Mars-Jupiter conjunction opposes Saturn and also squares the lunar nodes, forming another T-square within this chart.

William Frankland popularized the Point of Life as an imaginary point that starts at 0° Aries and progresses through the zodiac at a rate of one sign for every seven years of life (or approximately 4 2/7 degrees per year), forming aspects with planets, points, and midpoints in the birth chart. This technique was based on Alan Leo’s study of the orbit of Uranus.

Frankland would have noticed these configurations and wondered when they would be likely to manifest in the life of this native. Using Alan Leo‘s scheme that each sign represents 7 years of life, beginning at 0 Aries as the start of life, Frankland might make noticed the following about this native:

Virgo covers ages 35 up to 42. With Pluto SRx at the end of Virgo, the period around age 41 may be highly transformative with regard to 1st personal and 7th house relationship issues. Libra covers ages 42 up to 49, and Uranus will oppose its natal position around age 42, indicating signficant changes or disruptions in close partnerships, marriage, or intimate relationships in his early to mid-40s. In the 90-degree midpoint sort, Pluto occupies 14 degrees 41′ of fixed signs, which corresponds to around 44.7 years old.

Scorpio covers ages 49 up to 56. This appears to be a troublesome period with potential danger to health because the 8th cusp lies at 13 Scorpio (roughly age 52), the opposition of Saturn lies at about 16 Scorpio (roughly age 52 1/2), the planet Mars lies in 20 Scorpio (roughly age 53 1/2), 12th-ruler Jupiter is at about 29 Scorpio (around age 55), and the 8th ruler Mars /12th ruler Jupiter midpoint at around 24.6 Scorpio at the “bendings” in square to the lunar nodes which occupy the 12th and 6th houses (roughly age 54.7) .

In addition, the sinister square of Mars, in 20 Aquaries, approaches the MC by primary motion and will cross the midheaven around age 52 by primary direction. All-in-all the early 50s, especially around age 52, are of concern. Here is a list of his primary directions for this period (Placidus method, without latitude, Naibod Key):

From the biography of Jeremy Renner, we find that he married and divorced in 2014 when he was 43 years old. His marriage took place on 13 January 2014, and his wife filed for divorce on 30 December 2014. Frankland paid attention to planetary cycles and would have been aware that during this period Uranus transiting the 1st house was opposing natal Uranus in the 7th house, and transiting Neptune was squaring its natal position. The next chart shows his natal chart with the solar return of 2014, near the date of his marriage, superimposed.

Another interesting feature of this chart is the presence of Pluto at 29 Virgo 41′, almost in 0 Libra, affecting 7th house issues around ages 42 – 44 as we saw above. Sahl in his Fifty Aphorisms states the idea that the strength of a planet is diffused over 3 zodiacal degrees: the degree the planet occupies, and the one before and after it. In this chart, according to Sahl, the strength of Pluto would be spread over the last two degrees of Virgo and the first degree of Libra, thus simultaneously influencing the 7th sign from the Ascendant (marriage, partnerships, lawsuits, etc.) and the derived 12th from the 7th, that is, the sign representing the dissolution of close relationships.

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Addendum (10 November 2025):

With regard to Renner’s natal Pluto, I noticed that on 21 September 2025 a partial solar eclipse occurred at 29 Virgo 05′ in the 6th house conjunct the 7th cusp, directly on Pluto in Renner’s birth chart. Recently (early November 2025) the actor has been in the news because of a dispute with his Chinese business partner, the filmmaker Yi Zhou — a scandal replete with 12th and 7th house symbolism.

According to a November 8th (2025) article at yahoo.com: “Jeremy Renner has denied allegations from filmmaker Yi Zhou, who accused him of sending explicit photos and threatening to call immigration on her after their alleged brief romance. Zhou claimed the actor later denied their relationship and refused to promote their joint project. His attorney has since called her claims “fabricated” and retaliatory. Jeremy Renner has now hit his accuser with a cease and desist letter, claiming she was the one who pursued him for a romantic relationship.”

“According to TMZ, in a copy of a cease and desist letter sent out by the actor’s lawyer, Marty Singer, Renner claims Zhou came on to him during their first meeting in July after he agreed to take part in her documentary, ‘Chronicles of Disney.’ The actor then admitted that he and Zhou had a “brief consensual encounter,” however, when they met again in August, he turned down her alleged sexual advances, opting to keep things professional by putting her in his guest bedroom. Renner went on to claim that this didn’t stop Zhou from being flirtatious with him, noting that after their August collaboration, she sent him a myriad of NSFW texts demanding he sleep with her. Renner is accusing Zhou of threatening to ‘harm him publicly’ if he doesn’t agree to promote her Disney documentary, and ‘make it falsely appear’ like they were once a couple.”

William Frankland, studying the Point of Life in Renner’s chart, would have correctly anticipated that the period around age 54.7 (September of 2025) would be characterized by prominent 7th and 12th house issues.

It is also interesting that as the scandal is making news headlines the method of “distributions,” with the Sun as hyleg and timed at the rate of the true solar arc, indicates that the divisor (distributor) is Jupiter ruling Pisces in the 12th and occupying the 8th, and the partner (participant) is Saturn which rules the 12th.