Minnie Driver

Minnie Driver was nominated for Good Will Hunting and has worked on both sides of the Atlantic since, which the record notes in its description of her as British American.

She was born at Marylebone, in London, on 31 January 1970 with the Sun in Aquarius and the Moon in Scorpio. Aquarius builds identity on not being told and is far more immovable than its airy reputation suggests. A Scorpio Moon feels everything at depth and shows almost none of it. Together they describe somebody principled and private, and the combination is not a natural fit for an industry that runs on availability.

There are no aspect patterns in the chart at all, so none of the tension is held in a structure. What there is instead is an unusual amount of Neptune. Venus makes a creative angle to it twelve minutes of arc apart, the tightest aspect she has; Mercury sits in hard contact with it; and Neptune is on the first degree of Sagittarius. Taste working beautifully with the planet of atmosphere while speech argues with it is a specific and rather elegant arrangement: an actress with a real feel for tone who is nonetheless exact about language.

The Sun and Venus both make hard angles to Pluto, under a degree each. Identity and what she values, both pressed on by concentrated force, in a chart with nothing structural to absorb it. A career that has moved between countries and between film, television, writing and music is where it has gone instead.

Three planets in earth and three in air give the arrangement a balance the biography does not suggest.

Jupiter completed a lap of her chart in November 2017, at forty seven. A career that has moved between countries, between film and television, and into writing and music, is what a chart with no patterns does: there is no shape built into it, so the shape gets chosen repeatedly.