Jake T. Austin

Jake T. Austin was a child actor on Wizards of Waverly Place, which is the whole of this record. He was born in New York on 3 December 1994, and the chart has an unusual property worth saying out loud: with no birth time recorded, it is the same chart as every other person born that day, anywhere in the world. What separates them is everything that is not astrology.

Not one of his ten planets is in air, and none of them is retrograde. Air is the faculty that steps back and views a situation from a distance; no retrogrades means nothing in the chart does its business inward or out of order. Together those two describe a person who is exactly what they appear to be and has no mechanism for standing outside it. For a child on television that is a qualification. For an adult afterwards it is the difficulty, because the thing an ex-child actor most needs is the ability to look at the career from the outside.

The Sun, Moon and Mercury sit together in Sagittarius, so identity, feeling and speech share the sign of the larger horizon and the dislike of walls. Venus, Jupiter and Pluto make a second group in Scorpio, which does nothing by halves. Mercury squares Saturn two thirds of a degree from the exact angle, and that is the one genuinely restrictive thing here: speech meeting doubt, a mind that reads its own uncertainty as stupidity. It is an awkward aspect to carry through a childhood spent being handed somebody else's script.

His Moon sits a fifth of a degree from a quiet contact with Neptune, the softest aspect in the chart, which is imagination available at no cost and the part of him a camera liked.

A career that starts at ten and a chart with no distance in it is a combination that makes the first decade easy and every decade after it a decision.