Jonathan Frakes

The chart places four planets in fire signs, with two each in earth, air and water. Fire asserts and the rest is evenly spread behind it, so nothing argues with the forward direction. Frakes acted in Star Trek and then became a prolific director, which is one of the few career changes that happens inside the same building: the actor who keeps asking how the shot works eventually gets handed the camera.

The Sun, the Moon, Mercury and Pluto group across eleven degrees of Leo, which is a tight four planet cluster in the sign that does its work where it can be seen and expects the room to notice. Identity, private feeling, speech and concentrated force all stationed there is a great deal of chart in one place. It also explains why a supporting part on an ensemble series was never going to be the whole of it.

The Sun sits at a hard angle to Saturn at a third of a degree, identity against limit, and Venus is a thirtieth of a degree from a mild contact with the same Saturn. A T-square holds Mars, Jupiter and Pluto, so drive is braced between scale and force with no outlet. Mercury, retrograde at his birth, is the one planet in that Leo group facing the other way. For a performer who became a director, drive braced between scale and force is the part that stopped him staying in the chair he was given.

Jupiter closed its circuit back in Taurus on 14 April 2024, at seventy one. Taurus takes its measure from what has accumulated rather than from ground covered, and six circuits precede it, which is a great many for one chart. A directing credit list that runs into the hundreds is exactly the sort of total that sign was built to count. The Sun and Moon both in Leo means there was never a version of this career spent entirely behind the camera, and the record bears that out.