Bryce Dallas Howard

Four of her planets sit in air signs and only one in earth, plus three in water and a further two in fire. Air works a situation out from outside it, which is a director's instrument more than an actor's. Howard both acts and directs, and is Ron Howard's daughter, so the trade was in the house before she was and the only real question was which side of the camera she would end up on.

The Sun sits at twelve degrees of Pisces with Venus and Mars in the sign as well, three planets in the one that takes on whatever is in front of it rather than insisting on its own outline. That is the acting half. The Moon answers from Capricorn, the sign of the long view, the schedule and the obligation met, which is the directing half almost exactly, and the chart keeps the two in different signs rather than letting either win.

Jupiter sits conjunct Saturn eight hundredths of a degree off exact, the tightest pair in the chart: expansion and limit fused into a single position in Libra, with Pluto in the sign as well. For somebody who inherited access and then had to prove the work was hers, scale and restriction arriving as one thing rather than two is the structural account of the position. Three planets were retrograde.

Jupiter reached its own birth degree in Libra again on 18 October 2016, at thirty five, still in reverse, as it was at birth. Libra weighs one option against another and refuses to close either down, and the planet of reach in it asks what was balanced rather than what was gained. Three circuits sit behind that date, and the move into directing came after the most recent of them, which is Libra choosing the second option rather than abandoning the first.