Kristen Wiig

Five of her planets sit in air signs, with three in fire and one each in earth and water. Air is the element that stands outside a situation and works out what is actually happening in it, which is not a bad description of what a comic performer does for a living before any of it becomes a joke. Wiig is an American comedian and actress, born in upstate New York in 1973.

The Sun sits on the twenty ninth degree of Leo, the last of the sign, with the Moon in Gemini. Leo wants to be watched and will hold a room; Gemini will not stay in one register for more than a minute. An actress known for building characters rather than for playing herself needs both, and a Sun at the very end of the performing sign is the placement of somebody already halfway out of it and into the exacting one next door.

Four yods run through this chart and every one of them holds Neptune, which is a remarkable amount of unresolved structure stacked on the planet of image and disguise. A yod keeps pointing rather than settling. Venus makes easy contact with Jupiter seven hundredths of a degree away from exact, the narrowest orb here, so taste and scale agree completely while everything to do with how she appears refuses to. For a performer whose best known work is characters rather than herself, having the planet of appearance at the hinge of all four is almost too apt.

Jupiter closed a twelve year circuit on 7 January 2021, back where it began in Aquarius, when she was forty seven. Aquarius is the sign of whatever is done in a form nobody asked for, and the planet of reach in it counts distance from the expected rather than progress towards it. Four laps of the planet precede it, and a career built on characters nobody else would have written is what that measure rewards. Jupiter was the one retrograde planet in her chart at birth, so the planet doing the measuring was facing the other way from the start.