John Leguizamo

Just one planet of the ten sits in a fire sign, with four in earth, three in water and two in air. Earth builds and keeps, and the element that would make a sudden move is almost absent. Leguizamo is Colombian and American on the record, an actor and a writer of solo shows, and a solo show is the format in which one person is the entire cast, the writer and the thing the audience came to see.

The Sun sits seven minutes of arc from the end of Cancer, which is a smaller gap than the Sun covers in a quarter of an hour, so the sign genuinely cannot be settled without a birth time. Cancer holds back and protects what matters; Leo goes out and performs it. For a man who writes the material and then stands on a stage alone to deliver it, both readings land squarely and neither can be ruled out.

The Moon stands at a hard angle to Mercury a tenth of a degree short of exact, the nearest to exact of any pair in it: private feeling in friction with speech, which for a writer who performs his own words is friction between the two halves of one job. The Moon also makes easy contact with Uranus at a quarter of a degree. The chart carries no yod, no T-square and no grand trine, so none of this sits inside a bracing structure.

Jupiter completed a lap and stood again on its opening degree in Taurus on 20 April 2024, at fifty nine. Taurus takes its measure from what has accumulated rather than from ground covered, which for a working life of a great many parts and a smaller number of shows written alone is two different answers to the same question. Five laps of the planet lie behind that date.