Ellen Burstyn

Fire has four of her ten planets, earth three, water two and a single one air, with five of the ten mutable. The element that would stand back and talk a thing over is down to one planet. The record calls Burstyn an American actress and names The Exorcist and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

Mars sits conjunct Neptune at under a third of a degree, which is diffuse energy: effort in service of an ideal, inspired action, and real difficulty sustaining ordinary motivation without one. In an actress the record attaches to two particular films rather than to a body of work, that contact is the one with the most in it. Mars, Jupiter and Neptune fill twelve degrees of Virgo, the sign built on doing something properly and being useful.

Mercury sits in hard contact with Pluto at a third of a degree, thought turning compulsive: rumination, and suspicion that outruns the evidence. The Sun also sits in mild friction with Saturn at just over a degree, identity meeting a rule that will not move, and Jupiter sits sixty degrees from Pluto at a degree and a third, which is effective power: reform that succeeds, and an ability to recover from a setback at scale. Saturn sits on the second degree of Aquarius and Venus at thirteen of Scorpio. The Sun sits at fifteen degrees of Sagittarius with Mercury at eight and retrograde, and the Moon answers from Aries at seventeen, where feelings arrive at full volume and leave almost as quickly. Both lights are certain, and they sit in easy contact at just over a degree and a third, so identity and the thing that settles it are on the same side rather than opposite ones. For an actress the record names in two films, two lights in agreement is the steadier half of a chart whose Mercury never stops turning things over.

Saturn came back to its Aquarius birth degree on 30 December 2020, at eighty eight, and that is a third Saturn return, which very few charts in this set live long enough to record. Aquarius takes its reading from whatever would not follow the usual pattern, and at a third asking the question is about something that has already outlasted two previous reckonings. Mercury, Uranus and Pluto were the three retrograde planets.