Bruce Campbell

Fire, earth and water take three planets each in his chart, leaving one in air. Nothing is scarce except the element that stands back and assesses, so this is a chart that acts, builds and feels rather than one that deliberates. Campbell is an American actor whose record names a horror series he has been returning to since he was in his twenties, which is an unusually long relationship with one role.

The Sun sits on the first degree of Cancer, the very start of the sign, with Mercury close behind it. Cancer keeps what it is given and does not hand anything back. For a performer whose career has been built on repeatedly going back to the same part rather than escaping it, having identity and speech both at the opening of the most retentive sign in the zodiac is about as neat a fit as this project finds.

Jupiter makes easy contact with Saturn at zero orb, exact to the arcminute, which is expansion and limit in complete agreement rather than at odds, and it is the rarest kind of aspect to find that tight. Jupiter also makes a quintile to Uranus at a third of a degree. Nothing in the chart forms a yod or a T-square, so none of this is braced; the aspects simply hold. For an actor who has kept returning to the same series across forty years, expansion and limit agreeing completely is why it never became a trap.

Saturn came round to the Sagittarius degree it had set out from on 21 September 2017, at fifty nine, three weeks after Jupiter closed its own lap. That is a second Saturn return, which asks whether what the first thirty years built is worth keeping. Sagittarius, already looking at the next thing, is a restless sign to be handed that question in. Five laps of Jupiter precede it, and he was still returning to the same character in the most recent of them.