Andrew Lincoln

Four of the ten planets sit in air signs, with two each in fire, earth and water. Air stands outside a situation and works out what it is, which is an unexpected weighting for an actor known worldwide for a part played almost entirely at the edge of panic. Lincoln is English, born in London in 1973, and the record names one character carried across years of television.

The Sun sits at twenty one degrees of Virgo, the sign of the exact detail and the thing done properly whether or not anyone checks, and the Moon answers from Aries, which moves before it consults. That pairing is a careful, methodical public half with a private half that will not wait, and for a performer required to be the reluctant decision maker in every episode for the better part of a decade, both halves got used.

Saturn sits square Pluto one hundredth of a degree from exact, which is as close as the arithmetic ever puts a pair: the planet of limits against the planet of concentrated force, with nothing between them at all. A yod holds Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune and does not resolve. The Sun is a thirtieth of a degree from a mild angle to Uranus. Jupiter, alone, was retrograde at his birth. For an actor required to be the reluctant decision maker in every episode, limit against force at zero distance is the character as much as the chart.

Jupiter worked its way back to its opening Aquarius degree on 31 December 2020, at forty seven, moving backwards, which is how it began. Aquarius counts distance from the expected rather than progress towards it, and four circuits sit behind that date. For an English actor whose most visible work was an American series about the end of everything, the measure fits better than the obvious one would. Three planets sit grouped in Libra, the sign of the other person, which for a character defined entirely by who he was trying to keep alive is the quieter half of the chart and the one the series actually ran on.