David Dastmalchian

Seven of his ten planets sit in cardinal signs against a single fixed one, which is a heavy concentration in the part of the zodiac that begins things. The elements come out three in earth, three in water and two apiece in fire and air. The record gives Dastmalchian The Dark Knight, Dune, and Late Night with the Devil, which he also wrote.

The Sun sits on the twenty ninth degree of Cancer with Saturn at twenty three and Mercury at sixteen, three planets in the sign that looks after what it belongs to and withdraws rather than confronting. The Moon answers from Capricorn at ten, managing a feeling rather than expressing it. For an actor who wrote one of the three things the record names, a Cancer group with a Capricorn Moon describes somebody who keeps the material and the handling of it to himself.

Both lights are tied to Uranus. The Sun sits square it at seventeen hundredths of a degree, the urge to break out arriving at the wrong moment, and the Moon sits seventy two degrees from it at a quarter, which reads as being untroubled by upheaval and finding routine harder than most. A T-square closes on the Sun, Jupiter and Uranus with no outlet. Jupiter sits square Saturn at just under half a degree, expansion against caution and timing that is repeatedly slightly wrong. Neptune alone was retrograde. In an actor who also writes, both lights wired to the planet of the unexpected is the arrangement the second trade came out of.

By 20 April 2023 Jupiter had come back to its Aries birth degree, at forty seven, with three laps behind it. Aries measures a thing from its first line, and for a record that ends with a film he wrote himself, the first line is where the difference between the entries lies. Seven cardinal planets with one fixed is what to take from this chart: it starts things readily and has almost nothing in it built to sit still, and both lights wired to the planet of the unexpected is why.