Elizabeth Banks

Six of her planets sit in air signs, with two in earth and one each in fire and water. Air stands outside a situation and works out how it is actually built, which is a director's instrument rather than a performer's. Banks both acts and directs, and a chart this heavily weighted towards analysis says more about the second of those than the first.

The Sun sits at twenty two degrees of Aquarius with Jupiter close beside it, while the Moon, Uranus and Pluto group across twenty one degrees of Libra. Aquarius stands one step outside whatever it belongs to and Libra reads what everybody in the room needs. Between them they describe somebody comfortable running a set, where the job is to see the whole arrangement and still manage each person inside it separately.

A grand trine holds Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, which is scale, discipline and disruption in easy mutual contact rather than conflict, and that is an unusually cooperative set of heavy planets. Against it, the Sun sits at a hard angle to Pluto one hundredth of a degree from exact, the tightest thing here, and square Mars at half a degree. Four of the ten were retrograde at her birth. In a director, identity under that much pressure from force is what makes somebody take charge rather than wait to be cast.

Jupiter completed its round in Aquarius on 17 November 2021, at forty seven. Aquarius scores a working life by how far it got from the obvious route, and four laps precede it. For an actress who moved into directing rather than staying where the industry had already placed her, that is the measure the career has effectively chosen for itself. The grand trine is what made the move available: scale, discipline and disruption already cooperating meant directing was a change of chair rather than a fight. Four of the ten planets were retrograde at her birth, so none of that confidence was loudly advertised.