Julie Delpy

Three planets of the ten sit in earth signs, three in water, two in fire and two in air, an even spread with nothing missing. The record names Delpy a French American actress and director, and it names the Before trilogy.

The Sun sits on the final thirty five minutes of Sagittarius, so Capricorn is a few hours away, and Neptune sits on the final half degree of Scorpio, which puts two planets within a degree of changing sign. The Moon answers from the start of Gemini, or Taurus a little earlier. Sagittarius tells the story and Gemini keeps two accounts of it going at once, which for somebody whose best known work is three films built almost entirely out of conversation is an apt pair.

A T-square holds the Moon, Mars and Neptune with no outlet, and the Moon sits square Mars at under half a degree, so private feeling is braced directly against its own drive. The Sun sits in easy contact with Neptune at an eighth of a degree, the tightest contact here, identity and image on comfortable terms. Saturn alone was retrograde at her birth, and it sits on the second degree of Taurus. In a writer of dialogue, feeling braced against its own drive is the argument the talk gets made out of.

On 14 October 2017 Jupiter stood again on its Scorpio birth degree, at forty seven. Scorpio is indifferent to how a thing was received, and three circuits precede it. For films made in long takes of talk, with no spectacle to hide behind, indifference to reception is close to the working condition. Two planets within a degree of a boundary, in a chart otherwise evenly balanced, is where the restlessness in this one sits. Her Moon sits on the fourth degree of Gemini at noon and may have been in Taurus, which leaves the private half open between keeping two accounts going and settling on one. A T-square running through the Moon and Mars, with Neptune at the third corner, is the part of the chart that puts pressure on exactly the placement a writer of dialogue works from.