Bridgit Mendler

Four planets in this chart sit in air signs, with two each in fire, earth and water. Air stands outside a situation and works out what it actually is, which is the most analytical of the four elements and the least sentimental about a thing it has finished with. The record on Mendler is three careers with nothing in common: a television series, a doctorate, and a satellite company, in that order.

The Sun sits at twenty seven degrees of Sagittarius, the sign that goes looking and assumes the next place will be more interesting than this one. The Moon answers from Libra, which weighs the options rather than bolting for them. Leaving a finished career to begin an unrelated one, and then doing it again, is Sagittarius behaving exactly as described, with a Libra Moon making sure each move was costed first.

Nothing in the chart forms a yod, a T-square or a grand trine, so none of this is held inside a larger structure, which for a life arranged as three unconnected chapters is more apt than it is a shortcoming. Venus makes easy contact with Jupiter at just over half a degree, and Mars, the only retrograde planet, makes easy contact with Pluto at three quarters. The easy aspects outnumber the hard ones. For somebody who has had three unrelated careers, a chart carrying more ease than friction suggests none of the changes were forced on her.

Saturn worked its way back to its opening Aquarius degree on 28 January 2022, at twenty nine. That first Saturn return asks what the preceding thirty years actually built, and Aquarius answers in terms of the route taken rather than the distance covered. Somebody who had already been an actress and was by then a researcher had an unusually long answer available to a question most people find short. The satellite company came later still, which is the part of the record that makes the Sagittarius reading look less like a flourish and more like a method.