Jonah Hill

Fire and water take four planets each in his chart, leaving one in earth and one in air. Fire asserts and water absorbs, with almost nothing to ground either or to stand outside and comment. Hill has been nominated twice for parts in two films that are not comedies, which is the particular path of a comic actor who turns out to be able to do the other thing and then has to keep proving it.

The Sun sits at twenty eight degrees of Sagittarius with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune in the sign as well, four planets in the one that overshoots on purpose. A second trio of Venus, Saturn and Pluto sits in Scorpio, which conceals everything the first group announces. Those two groups are the comic register and the dramatic one: the Sagittarius half plays big, and the Scorpio half is where the parts that got him nominated actually come from.

The Sun sits conjunct Neptune at just over half a degree, identity fused to the planet of image and of what cannot quite be pinned down, and at a hard angle to Saturn at two fifths. Mercury makes easy contact with Venus four hundredths of a degree from the exact angle, the narrowest orb in the chart, which puts speech and taste in complete agreement. Not one planet was retrograde at his birth. For an actor asked first to be funny and then to be credible, identity fused to the planet of image is the whole difficulty of that transition.

Jupiter closed a twelve year circuit on 1 November 2019, back where it began in Sagittarius, at thirty five. That is the planet of reach returning to the sign it governs, as unobstructed a lap as the arithmetic allows, and what Sagittarius asks is how far a thing went rather than how carefully. Three laps of the planet precede it, and both nominations arrived inside the third, which for an actor who started in comedy is a fast reversal of what the industry thought he was for.