Kathryn Hahn

Fire and air take four of her planets each, leaving one in earth and one in water. Fire performs and air works out what is funny about the situation; the elements that would ground it or let it get heavy are both nearly absent. Hahn is an American actress whose record names one series, in which she plays somebody theatrical and untrustworthy, which is a register that needs both those elements and neither of the others.

The Sun sits on the first degree of Leo, the very start of the sign that holds a room and expects to be watched, with Venus near the end of the same sign. The Moon answers from Taurus, which does not hurry and does not let go. That is a chart with the performing instinct at full strength and a private half that is entirely unbothered by it, which is a useful combination for comic work of this particular kind.

Mars makes a quintile to Jupiter at zero orb, exact to the arcminute, which is an easy skill with scale rather than a struggle for it, and that aspect is rare at that distance. Mars also sits directly opposite Uranus at four fifths of a degree and at a hard angle to Neptune at a quarter, so the drive is the busiest point in the chart. Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune were retrograde. For a comic actress whose register is theatrical and untrustworthy, having the drive as the busiest point in the chart is where that energy comes from.

Jupiter met its own starting point in Aquarius on 23 January 2021, at forty seven, in reverse as it was originally. Aquarius pays attention to how far from the usual path a thing got rather than how far along it, and four circuits precede it. For an actress who spent two decades in supporting parts before a series built entirely around her, that is the measure that reads the career correctly. A Sun on the opening degree of Leo is the performing instinct at its least diluted, and it waited a long time to be given a room of its own.