Charlie Day

Charlie Day co-created It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and has acted in it for two decades, which means he has been writing the thing he performs for longer than most series run.

He was born in New York on 9 February 1976 with the Sun in Aquarius and four of his ten planets in air. Aquarius builds identity on not being told, and its real cost is that being different stops being a consequence of what you think and becomes the point. A comedy built entirely on characters with no redeeming features, sustained for twenty years without softening, is that sign refusing to compromise at industrial scale.

The Sun makes easy contact with Jupiter half a degree off, which is the straightforwardly fortunate aspect in the chart and the one that explains longevity rather than brilliance: expansion available without a fight. There are no aspect patterns at all, so nothing here is locked into a structure and the tension has no single recurring shape.

Mercury and Venus sit together in Capricorn, the sign of actually having done the thing, so speech and taste are the practical half of the chart while identity is the contrary half. A writer-performer needs precisely that split: somebody has to do the scheduling.

Venus makes an awkward angle to Mars by three quarters of a degree, taste and drive out of step, and Saturn is retrograde and in hard contact with Neptune. A series that has never once let a character improve is that combination with a writing room.

His Jupiter return fell in April 2023, at forty seven. On a chart with an easy Sun to Jupiter and no patterns at all, a year of expansion does not force a decision, which may be why the answer has been to keep making the same show. Twenty years of it is the evidence rather than the explanation.