Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes made Hitch and The Place Beyond the Pines, two films at opposite ends of what an actress gets offered, and has worked very little since by choice.

She was born in Miami on 5 March 1974 with seven of her ten planets in air and not one in earth. That is the most air-weighted chart on this site by a wide margin. Air observes, compares and keeps a working distance from its own feelings; no earth at all removes the instinct to settle, consolidate and stay. A chart like that is extraordinarily mobile and has nothing in it that wants to accumulate, which is a strange foundation for a career in a business built on momentum.

It also carries two grand trines and a kite. A grand trine is three planets in easy contact the whole way round, which is ability arriving without resistance and the standing warning that nothing in it obliges the person to work. Having two, both built on Saturn and Uranus, means discipline and disruption are handing capability back and forth with no friction anywhere in the circuit. A kite is a grand trine with one planet opposite, which gives the ease somewhere to point; hers points at Pluto through her Moon. Two films at opposite ends of what an actress gets offered, and very little in between, is that ease choosing its targets.

Mercury makes easy contact with both Saturn and Uranus, a third and four fifths of a degree off. Speech on comfortable terms with structure and with the unexpected at once, which is the configuration of somebody who can decline a film pleasantly and permanently.

Stepping back from acting at the point most actresses are pushing hardest is the clearest reading this chart offers. Two grand trines in a chart with no earth describe somebody who finds the work easy and the accumulating of it pointless, and the career since has been the evidence.