Lily Tomlin

Six of her ten planets sit in earth signs and four in fire, with nothing at all in air and nothing in water. A chart occupying only two of the four elements is rare, and this one is split between the element that builds and the element that performs, with nothing that analyses and nothing that absorbs. Tomlin is an American comedian and actress, and the record gives her a six decade career.

The Sun sits at eight degrees of Virgo with Venus a degree behind it and Neptune further along the same sign, while the Moon answers from Aries at nearly the same degree in a different sign. Virgo corrects and Aries begins. A comedian who has also acted across six decades needs the Virgo group for the precision and the Aries Moon for the nerve to go out and do it.

A grand trine holds Mars, Uranus and Neptune in easy agreement, and Jupiter sits in mild friction with Uranus two hundredths of a degree off exact, as tight as the arithmetic puts a pair. Venus stands awkwardly against that same Jupiter at under a quarter. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus were the three retrograde planets at her birth. In a comedian, a figure that asks nothing of the rest of the chart is a self sufficient thing to work from.

Uranus came back round to its Taurus birth degree on 23 April 2024, at eighty four, a year after Jupiter closed its own seventh lap. A Uranus return takes about eighty four years, so it is the circuit most charts never complete at all, and the planet that overturns the arrangement finishing its only lap is a fitting marker for a career the record measures in six decades. Taurus asks what is still standing, and for a career that length the answer is most of it. Saturn closed its own second lap twenty five years before that, which puts three separate returns on this chart and leaves very little of the arithmetic uncollected. A chart in two elements, with a grand trine holding the three planets furthest from the Sun, is the structure to keep from this one.