Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal is known for two parts that look unrelated and are the same study twice: a vigilante who cannot stop, and a chef who cannot stop. Both are men whose anger is the most competent thing about them.

He was born in Washington on 20 September 1976 with four planets grouped in Libra, the sign of other people, and five of the ten in air. Air watches, compares and keeps a working distance from its own feelings, and a chart this airy with only one planet each in earth and water is built to observe rather than to feel its way through. For an actor whose register is physical and hot, that is a surprising foundation, and it is the clue to why the heat reads as deliberate: it is being operated rather than released.

The tightest aspect he has is the Sun in hard contact with Saturn, nine minutes of arc from exact. Identity meeting a rule that does not move, arriving early, usually as an authority that cannot be argued with. What it gives back is that nothing produced under it is slight. His Sun also sits on the very last degree of Virgo, the sign of doing the thing properly, so the perfectionism and the obstruction are next door to each other. Both of the characters he is best known for are men wrecking themselves in pursuit of doing one thing correctly, which is that pair of placements handed a script.

Mars sits inside that Libra group with Venus and Pluto. Mars is drive, Venus is what you value, Pluto is pressure that does not let up, and the three of them in the sign that cannot bear open conflict is an exact description of a man whose characters are violent and whose violence is always about somebody else. His Moon is in Leo and in awkward contact with Mercury, which puts warmth and speech slightly out of step: the feeling is large and the saying of it is not easy.

His Jupiter return fell in May 2024, at forty seven, and on a chart with Saturn this tight on the Sun the question such a year raises is always how much to take on rather than whether to.

What the chart does not contain is anywhere for that Libra group to put a disagreement. Four planets in the sign that cannot bear open conflict, one of them Mars, belongs to a man who will take up somebody else's fight every time rather than have his own. Both of the roles he is remembered for are precisely that.