Josh O'Connor

Josh O'Connor played Prince Charles in The Crown and a tennis player in Challengers, which are two studies in the same thing: men who are watched constantly and reveal very little.

He was born at Southampton on 20 May 1990 with the Sun on the last degree of Taurus, fifty minutes of arc from leaving it, and the hour was never recorded, so even that is close. A Sun at the end of a sign reads as the sign concentrated, and Taurus concentrated is steadiness that has become immovability: a person whose stillness is the most active thing about them.

Not one of his ten planets is in air, and six of the ten are in cardinal signs. Air is the faculty that steps back and comments; cardinal signs begin and commit. That combination belongs to somebody who acts rather than explains, and it is an unusually good fit for parts whose whole effect is withheld interiority. Five planets in earth supports the same reading, with three grouped in Capricorn, all retrograde, which sets the slow half of the chart running inward.

The tightest aspect is the Sun at a hard angle to Neptune, six minutes of arc apart. Identity against the planet that dissolves outlines: a self that is hard to see clearly, including from inside, which is both the difficulty and the professional asset. Mercury makes an easy angle to Uranus under a degree, so the thinking is quicker and odder than the surface suggests.

On a chart with no air, a Sun on the final degree of the most immovable sign, and the slow planets all reversed, the career that fits is the one he has: parts where almost nothing is said and the audience has to do the work. A prince who cannot speak plainly and an athlete who will not are the same job twice, and on this chart they are the only job available.