Drea de Matteo

Her ten planets divide three in fire, three in earth, two in air and two in water, which is about as even as a chart gets. Nothing is missing and nothing runs the show. De Matteo won an Emmy for a part in a drama about organised crime, playing somebody on the edge of a world rather than at the centre of it, which is a harder position to hold on screen than the centre is.

The Sun sits on the twenty ninth degree of Capricorn, the last of the sign, with Mercury further back in it, and the Moon answers from Pisces. Capricorn counts the cost and Pisces absorbs whatever is in the room. A Sun on the final degree of the most accountable sign, about to cross into the least, describes somebody whose work sits exactly on that line: tough and entirely permeable in the same scene.

A grand trine holds the Sun, Saturn and Pluto, which is ease rather than friction between identity, discipline and concentrated force, and a T-square holds Venus, Saturn and Neptune, which is taste braced between structure and image with no outlet. Having Saturn in both figures means the planet of limits is doing all the structural work in this chart. Saturn and Pluto were the two retrograde planets. For an actress whose award came from playing somebody at the edge of a violent world, limit doing all the structural work is the right reading.

Jupiter was back on its Sagittarius starting degree on 16 November 2019, at forty seven. That is the planet of reach back in the sign it governs, as unobstructed a lap as the arithmetic allows, and Sagittarius counts distance covered rather than depth. Four circuits precede it, and the award the record names arrived inside the third. A grand trine tends to hand somebody the thing without a visible struggle, and a T-square makes certain that something else in the same chart is never that easy.