Dave Bautista

Dave Bautista wrestled professionally and then became an actor, and the second career has been the more selective one, which is the reverse of what usually happens.

He was born in Washington on 18 January 1969 with the Sun on the final degree of Capricorn and a single planet in fire. Capricorn at its end is the sign used up and inspected: competence that already knows exactly what it cost, and that is reputed to arrive at seriousness decades too early. One planet in fire is almost nothing that asserts for the pleasure of it, which for a man who made his living in a performance sport built on bravado is the surprising half of the reading.

The Sun makes easy contact with Neptune a fifth of a degree apart, the tightest aspect in the chart. Identity on comfortable terms with the planet of image and atmosphere: somebody who can inhabit a persona without being consumed by it, which is the single most useful thing a wrestler moving into film could have. His Moon makes easy contact with both Jupiter and Uranus, so the emotional half is on good terms with scale and with change at once.

The chart runs four planets in air and three in water. There are no aspect patterns at all, so none of this is locked into a structure, and Mars sits in hard contact with Pluto, force against force, as the one real friction. In a wrestler that aspect is the job; in an actor it is the thing he stopped needing to use.

Jupiter completed a lap of his chart in October 2016, at forty seven, which is roughly when the film work overtook everything else. A chart with the Sun this comfortable with Neptune and only one planet in fire was never going to keep performing strength for a living once something better was available.