Ben Mendelsohn

Fire takes five of his ten planets, with two apiece in earth and air and a single one in water, and six of the ten sit in cardinal signs against a single fixed one. Fire moves and cardinal starts; almost nothing here holds still. Mendelsohn is an Australian actor and the record names Bloodline and Rogue One.

The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn spread across twenty degrees of Aries, four planets in the sign most recognisable when it has something to push against, with Venus retrograde among them. The Moon answers from Libra at seventeen, which needs things settled and is genuinely destabilised by conflict. For an actor whose record names one series and one very large film, an Aries group facing a Libra Moon is the division that matters: the push is the work and the settling is private.

Mars sits a fifth of the way round from Uranus at an orb of zero, exact to the arcminute, which is as close as this table can measure. The reading is quick reflexes: acting well in an emergency, and an instinct for the unconventional move. The Sun sits in easy contact with that same Mars at a third of a degree and in hard contact with Neptune at just over a quarter. Five of the ten planets were retrograde at his birth, every one of them from Venus outwards.

By 7 September 2016 Jupiter had closed a full circuit on its Virgo birth degree, at forty seven, with three laps behind it. Virgo asks whether a thing would survive a second look, which for a record naming one series and one franchise is two different questions. Drive and the planet of the unexpected at an orb of zero, in an actor with six cardinal planets behind them, is the fact worth keeping from this one: the instinct arrives first and the chart has nothing in it that waits.