Michael C. Hall

The chart puts Four planets in fire and four in earth, with two in air and none at all in water. Earth builds and fire moves, and the element that registers a feeling before acting on it is missing entirely from the chart. Hall is on record for two long running American series, which is a working life spent inside two productions rather than ranging across a great many, and two sets rather than twenty.

The Sun sits at twelve degrees of Aquarius, the sign that holds itself slightly apart from whatever it belongs to, while four planets group in Sagittarius across twenty three degrees: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune. That is taste, drive, scale and image all in the sign that heads outward and assumes it is welcome. The Moon is forty one minutes into Taurus at noon, so an earlier hour leaves it in Aries and the private half stays unsettled. An actor paid to stand slightly apart and then go a very long way into a part has both of those signs doing their job.

Jupiter sits conjunct Neptune five hundredths of a degree short of exact, which is about as close as the arithmetic ever puts a pair, and Jupiter is in Sagittarius, the sign it governs. Scale fused with image on its own ground is a considerable amount of chart to point at one faculty. Mercury makes a hard angle with Mars at four hundredths of a degree, and two yods run through the chart, both holding the Moon and Pluto. For a performer whose record is two decades inside two productions, scale fused to image is the equipment rather than a complication.

Jupiter came full circle to its Sagittarius degree on 21 November 2018, at forty seven. The planet was back in the sign it rules and on the degree it occupied at the start, which is as complete a return as the arithmetic offers. What Sagittarius asks of it is distance covered rather than depth, an awkward question for an actor whose record is two long commitments and little else.