Greta Lee

Five of her planets sit in fire signs, with three in water and one each in earth and air. Fire moves and water registers; the elements that would ground a thing or stand outside and describe it are both nearly missing. Lee is an American actress named on the record for one film, a quiet one about a person weighing a life she did not live against the one she did, which is a part that asks for stillness rather than force.

The Sun sits at seventeen degrees of Pisces, the sign that takes on whatever is in front of it and holds no firm edge of its own, while Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune group across twenty degrees of Sagittarius. Pisces absorbs and Sagittarius heads off somewhere else. An actress who spent years in small parts before one film made her name has both halves of that in the chart: the absorbing, and the refusal to settle for the version already on offer.

Mars makes easy contact with Uranus at four fifths of a degree, and Jupiter sits conjunct that same Uranus within a degree and a quarter, so drive, scale and the planet that breaks a pattern are all working together rather than against each other. Mercury stands at a hard angle to Venus at under a fifth of a degree, the tightest pair here, which puts speech and taste slightly out of step. Saturn and Pluto were retrograde. For an actress who spent years in small parts before one film made her name, drive and disruption pulling together is what kept her available for it.

On 25 December 2018 Jupiter stood again on its birth degree in Sagittarius, when she was thirty five. That is the planet of reach back in the sign it governs, which is as clear a run as the arithmetic gives it, and what Sagittarius asks is distance covered rather than depth. The film the record names arrived in the circuit that followed.