Lena Dunham

Four of her planets sit in earth and only one in air, leaving three in water and two in fire. Earth builds and keeps, water registers, and the element that would stand outside a situation and describe it is nearly absent, which is worth noticing in somebody whose work was almost entirely description. Dunham created Girls, a series she wrote, directed and appeared in, so the describing was done from inside it rather than from any distance.

The Sun sits at twenty three degrees of Taurus with the Moon in Cancer. Taurus holds what it has and is slow to be moved; Cancer takes everything personally and keeps it. Neither sign lets go of material, which for a writer whose subject was her own circumstances is the structural account of the method rather than a comment on it. Mercury is in Taurus too, so the speech runs at the same deliberate pace as the identity.

Venus sits at a hard angle to Pluto two hundredths of a degree off exact, which is the smallest gap the arithmetic allows: what she values pressed on by concentrated force at effectively no distance. Venus is also directly opposite Uranus at just over a degree, and the three of them form a T-square with Jupiter, so taste is braced between disruption and scale with no outlet. Four planets were retrograde. For a writer who put her own circumstances on screen and was argued about for years because of it, taste under that much pressure is the career rather than a complication in it.

Jupiter closed its circuit back in Pisces on 16 March 2022, at thirty five. Pisces dissolves a boundary rather than defending one, an awkward sign for the planet that measures how far a thing has gone, and an apt one for a body of work whose whole difficulty was where the author stopped and the character started. Three circuits had closed by then, and the series the record names was written, shot and finished inside the most recent of them.