Taylor Parker Birth Chart: Sagittarius Sun, Scorpio Mind
Netflix's Maternal Instinct lands on Parker's natal Gemini Moon as transiting Uranus sits within two degrees. A noon-chart read of the Sagittarius Sun, Mercury-Pluto Scorpio core, and the configuration the case record already documents.
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By Sera Vane·June 26, 2026AI-assisted, editor-reviewed
On June 12, 2026, Netflix released Maternal Instinct, Jessica Dimmock's two-hour film about the ten months Taylor Parker spent in New Boston, Texas, building a pregnancy that never existed: a silicone belly, forged ultrasound printouts, a gender-reveal party held for a baby she had not conceived. Court testimony and the documentary's footage of that performance are why the chart is worth opening at all, not to account for the crime but to map the psychological terrain the public record already lays out. This piece works with what a noon-fallback chart can honestly support: Parker's Sagittarius Sun, the Mercury-Pluto cluster in Scorpio, and the live Uranus transit hitting her Gemini Moon as the film reaches its audience. Birth time is unconfirmed, so this analysis covers sign placements and transits only.
Uranus 3° Gemini conjunct natal Moon (active June 2026)
Birth time
Noon fallback (no verified time)
Documentary
Maternal Instinct, Netflix, premiered June 12, 2026
What the Documentary Actually Covers
Maternal Instinct is a single feature film, not a series, and it follows a confirmed timeline. On October 9, 2020, Reagan Simmons-Hancock, twenty-one years old and eight months pregnant, was killed in her home in New Boston, Bowie County, Texas. Her unborn daughter, Braxlynn Sage Hancock, was removed from the scene. Parker was convicted of capital murder in 2022 and sentenced to death; the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed both the conviction and the sentence in 2025. She is currently the youngest woman on Texas death row. Court filings and reporting describe a roughly ten-month performance of pregnancy that Parker maintained with a silicone belly, forged ultrasound printouts, and a maternity photoshoot and gender-reveal party staged with her boyfriend Wade Griffin, a hog trapper in East Texas. Dimmock's film, which premiered on Netflix on June 12, 2026, organizes that ten-month performance into a sequence the chart can sit alongside.
The Mercury-Pluto Signature in Scorpio
The dominant feature of Parker's chart is Mercury at 26° Scorpio sitting right next to Pluto at 23° Scorpio, what astrologers call a conjunction: the closest possible aspect, where two planets fuse into one combined voice in the chart. Mercury rules the mind, language, and the way a person handles information. When Mercury runs through Scorpio it tends to operate beneath the surface: it prefers concealment to disclosure, it manages what other people get to see, and it studies the levers of social trust before pulling them. Set it on Pluto, the planet of compulsion and hidden architecture, and the configuration maps to a mind that builds and maintains private structures of information for extended periods. The documentary records ten months of that pattern in action: a sustained, detail-rich fiction, performed in public, in front of family and friends, without breaking. The configuration is not an explanation for what Parker did. It is a description of the cognitive shape the public record already shows.
What makes the configuration unusually loaded in this chart is the trine from Mars retrograde at 26° Cancer to Pluto at 23° Scorpio, an orb so tight that the two planets effectively share a current. A trine is the easy-flow angle, the 120-degree relationship that lets energy move between two planets without resistance. Retrograde Mars in Cancer turns drive inward and routes it through emotional terrain, through family and home; when that inward drive feeds straight into a Plutonian conjunction with Mercury, the chart suggests willful action and psychological compulsion can travel through the water-sign channel with very little friction in between. That doesn't make a person dangerous. It does describe a chart in which the line between intention, emotion, and action runs short rather than long. The signature is the description, not the sentence.
Where the Gemini Moon Comes In
Set against the Scorpio core is something the documentary captures clearly: a public-facing presentation that is socially adept, conversational, mobile, and adaptive. That tracks with the Moon at 1° Gemini, opposite Pluto at 23° Scorpio across the chart. The opposition is the 180-degree polarity that pulls two planets into a stand-off; the orb here is wide, but the axis is unmistakable. Gemini Moon is the emotional register of someone who relates through language, who can mirror the tone of whatever room she is in, who manages other people's feelings through information flow. Running it opposite the Mercury-Pluto signature in Scorpio sets up a dual track: an outward Gemini layer that is fluent, curious, and friendly, and a Scorpio undercurrent that handles information differently than the Gemini surface suggests. The cost of running that split, when the chart's other planets reinforce it, is that the two tracks can stop talking to each other. The Mackenzie Shirilla profile traces a similar dual-channel architecture in a different psychological configuration — different planets, the same hint of a presentation layer that does not match the inner one.
The supporting beat that gives that split shape is the Mercury-Mars trine, less than a degree of orb, which links the mind to the will through Cancer-Scorpio's water-sign channel. Tight trines this close to exact tend to operate quietly: the configuration becomes a default mode rather than an event. In Parker's chart it suggests a mind that doesn't experience its plans as plans, because the path from idea to execution is too short to register as a step. That is descriptive, not predictive. Alex Murdaugh's chart shows a comparable absence of friction through a different planetary route, the same end state arrived at through different geometry. The descriptive vocabulary the chart offers is what makes the parallel readable across two unrelated cases. The signature is the shape, not the act.
The Transit That Lines Up With the Documentary
As Maternal Instinct reaches Netflix subscribers, Uranus is transiting at 3° Gemini, sitting on Parker's natal Moon at 1° Gemini with an orb of just over two degrees. Uranus is the planet of sudden exposure, of structures that look stable until they don't, and of the abrupt public visibility of things that were once private. A Uranus transit conjunct the natal Moon is the configuration astrologers associate with the moment a person's interior life, their emotional patterns, and the way they read other people become visible to an audience that did not have access before. The documentary is a literal instance of that pattern. Court records are public; the documentary makes them legible to viewers who would never read a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals opinion. The transit does not cause the documentary's release. It marks the timing astrologers tend to recognize, in retrospect, when a person's private architecture goes mainstream.
The slower-moving Saturn transit in Aries at 14° forms a sextile, the 60-degree angle of supportive contact, to her natal Saturn in Aquarius, and a set of Jupiter and Pluto transits to her personal planets sit underneath the Uranus-Moon contact as quieter context. None of them carry the same timing precision. The active layer this month is the Uranus-on-Moon transit, which the Karen Derrico read and the Rachel Nickell piece both covered as a recurring marker in true-crime documentary cycles. The transit is not the story; the documentary is the story, and the transit is the celestial timing that fits the story's release window. That distinction is doing all the work here.
What This Chart Maps and What It Doesn't
Read together, Parker's chart describes a psychological terrain: a Sagittarius Sun pulled toward expansive personal narrative, a Gemini Moon that runs the social register through information, a Mercury-Pluto Scorpio core that operates through concealment and sustained intensity, and a Cancer Mars retrograde that channels the drive inward through emotional terrain. That set of placements maps to a person whose default mode involves managing what other people know, holding sustained private structures of information, and routing willful action through emotional rather than logical channels. None of that is a moral verdict. The chart maps the cognitive and emotional shape that the public record already documents in detail. It does not say why any of it happened, what any of it means morally, or what a different chart in the same circumstances would have produced. Charts describe terrain. They do not assign weight.
There is a separate question the chart cannot answer, and it is the most important one. Reagan Simmons-Hancock and her unborn daughter Braxlynn Sage Hancock were two human beings whose lives ended in October 2020. Their loss is not a chart configuration; it is a fact that the public record holds. The reason a chart read of Parker is even publishable, given how easily this kind of writing can drift into causal claim, is that the documentary itself has put the case in front of a national audience and the chart can describe rather than explain. The descriptive vocabulary that astrology offers fits the public record. It does not replace it. It does not justify it. The chart is the lens; the case is what the lens is pointed at.
For entertainment and self-reflection purposes. Not predictive and not a substitute for professional advice.
What is Taylor Parker's zodiac sign and full birth chart?
Taylor Parker was born December 8, 1992 in Mount Pleasant, Texas, which makes her a Sagittarius Sun at 16°. Her Moon sits in Gemini at 1°, and her Mercury and Pluto cluster together at the late degrees of Scorpio. Her birth time is not on record, so this chart uses a noon fallback.
What is Maternal Instinct about and when did it premiere?
Maternal Instinct is a feature documentary directed by Jessica Dimmock that premiered on Netflix on June 12, 2026. It covers the 2020 New Boston, Texas case in which Taylor Parker, having maintained a roughly ten-month fake pregnancy, killed Reagan Simmons-Hancock and removed her unborn daughter Braxlynn Sage Hancock from the scene.
Why does this read stay only with signs and not with timed placements?
Parker's birth time is not part of any public record, including her Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate file. Anything that depends on an exact time of birth requires a verified source we do not have. A noon-fallback chart stays inside sign placements, planet-to-planet aspects, and current transits, which is what this analysis works with.
What does it mean when Uranus transits a person's natal Moon?
Uranus on the natal Moon is the configuration astrologers tie to sudden exposure of someone's inner life and emotional patterns. It often coincides with abrupt shifts in family situation, public visibility of private feelings, or external events that change a person's emotional context without warning. The transit is descriptive, not causal.
How does a Mercury-Pluto conjunction in Scorpio tend to operate?
Mercury-Pluto in Scorpio is the configuration astrologers describe as a mind oriented toward depth, concealment, and the careful management of information. It is often associated with research, investigation, sustained focus, and a comfort with what other people consider taboo. The pattern does not produce any one outcome; it describes how someone tends to handle information.
