John Boyega

John Boyega went from a low budget film set on a south London estate to the middle of the largest franchise in cinema, and then to Small Axe, a set of films about Caribbean London. He was born in Peckham on 17 March 1992, so he became internationally known in his early twenties, in a career whose two ends are a few miles and an enormous distance apart.

His Sun is at twenty seven degrees of Pisces, almost at the end of the last sign, and his Moon is in Virgo, directly opposite it. Those two are designed against each other: Pisces dissolves the edges, Virgo puts things in order. A Pisces Sun has no fixed outline and is better described from outside than from within, while a Virgo Moon settles a difficult feeling by finding a task and is far more comfortable helping than being helped. One of those is an actor and the other is the person who turns up prepared, and having them in opposition rather than in agreement means the two halves never get to blur into each other.

He has four planets in earth and a single one in fire. For somebody famous before twenty five that is a notably unshowy distribution, and it fits a body of work that has held a blockbuster trilogy and a set of serious films about one specific community with no visible change of register between them. The chart does not contain the temperament that would treat the first of those as the promotion.

Mars sits a degree from a square to Pluto, force meeting force: drive that will not be moved and does not back down when pushed. It is the hardest thing in the chart, and there are no aspect patterns otherwise, no T-squares and no yods, so that square stands alone rather than feeding a larger structure. One concentrated pressure point in an otherwise unlocked chart is a different proposition from being generally difficult. Uranus and Neptune are conjunct within a degree and a sixth, which everybody born in the early nineties shares.

Saturn arrived back on the degree it held the day he was born on 24 January 2022, when he was twenty nine. A first Saturn return is where the scaffolding comes off and you find out which parts were load-bearing. His arrived after the franchise had finished and the other work had started, which is the useful order to get it in.