Jessica Lange

Her chart puts four planets in air signs, three in fire, three in earth and not one in water. Air arranges and fire moves; the element that would register what any of it costs is missing from the chart entirely, which is a striking absence in an actress whose record is counted in awards. Lange has two Oscars and a Tony, and the record gives the tally without naming the work.

The Sun sits eighteen minutes of arc into Taurus, so Aries cannot be ruled out without a birth hour, with Venus a degree further on and Mercury beyond that. The Moon answers from Aquarius. Taurus will not be hurried and Aries cannot wait, and the chart genuinely will not say which of them is the identity. For a career built on performances that take their time, the ambiguity is an honest result rather than a gap.

The Sun sits square Jupiter at under half a degree and Venus does the same at half, so both identity and taste are braced against the planet of scale. The Sun also makes easy contact with Saturn at nine tenths and sits conjunct Venus at just under a degree. Saturn sits on the final thirty six minutes of Leo and Jupiter on the first degree of Aquarius. Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were the three retrograde planets. In an actress, identity and taste both braced against the planet of scale is the pressure a large part is taken on under.

By 23 December 2020 Jupiter had returned to its Aquarius birth degree, at seventy one. Aquarius asks which parts were done against the grain, and five circuits precede it, which few charts live to collect. For somebody whose record names three awards and no titles, against the grain is the only measure the sign can offer. A Sun on the eighteenth minute of Taurus, with no water anywhere in the chart, is the structure to keep from this one.