Ian Somerhalder

Ian Somerhalder is known for two long-running ensemble shows, Lost and The Vampire Diaries, and for playing in both of them the character the audience is not supposed to trust and does anyway.

He was born at Covington on 8 December 1978 with six of his ten planets in fire and one each in earth and air. That is a very heavily fire-weighted chart, and fire asserts rather than reflects: it moves first, takes up room, and is uninterested in the cautious version. Four of the six sit together in Sagittarius, the Sun with Mercury, Mars and Neptune, so identity, speech, drive and glamour all occupy the sign of the larger horizon and the thing just out of reach. Sagittarius is charming in a way that does not quite promise to stay, which is a useful quality in the part he kept being cast in.

His Moon is in Aries, where feelings arrive at full volume and leave almost as fast, and it makes an easy angle to Jupiter within three quarters of a degree. Together they describe somebody genuinely hard to offend and quick to recover, which is a real asset across ten years of ensemble television and a liability in any situation that needed him to sit still with something.

The chart carries a grand trine across the Moon, Mercury and Jupiter: three planets in easy contact the whole way round, so feeling, speech and expansion reinforce one another with no friction anywhere in the circuit. Facility like that is pleasant and dangerous in equal measure, since nothing in it obliges the person to work. The only brake is Venus square Jupiter, half a degree from exact, the aspect of wanting more than is good for you, and it is the single piece of resistance in an otherwise frictionless arrangement. A decade of ensemble television asks for precisely that: enough ease to stay pleasant on a long shoot, and just enough want to keep turning up to it.

His Jupiter return fell on 9 August 2026, at forty seven, which for a chart this fire-heavy is less a new chapter than more of the same offered at a larger size.

The grand trine is the thing to watch rather than the thing to celebrate. Three planets handing ability round a circuit with no resistance anywhere describes a career that will always be offered the next version of the same part, and the only question such a chart leaves open is what gets declined.