Nicholas Hoult

Nicholas Hoult began as a child in About a Boy and has kept working ever since, which is the rarer half of that story: most children who are cast do not get a second career as an adult.

He was born at Wokingham on 7 December 1989 with not one planet in air and six of the ten in cardinal signs. Air is the faculty that steps back and keeps a comfortable distance from its own feelings; cardinal signs begin things. A chart with none of the first and that much of the second describes somebody who commits before considering, which is both why a child can be directed and why most of them cannot be directed twice.

Four planets group together in Capricorn: Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Capricorn wants to have actually done the thing, and it is reputed to age in reverse, heavier at twenty than at sixty. For somebody who was working professionally at twelve, that is not a metaphor. Venus makes a creative angle to Pluto thirty six seconds of arc from exact, the closest thing in her chart, which is taste in productive contact with pressure: an eye for the uncomfortable part, used as skill rather than suffered.

There is a T-square holding his Moon, Jupiter and Uranus, with the Moon square Uranus a quarter of a degree off. Emotional life against disruption, with scale pulling at both and nowhere for the strain to resolve. His Moon is at the end of Pisces or the start of Aries, depending on an hour nobody wrote down, so this site does not choose, but either way it is the part of him that was never going to settle into the same kind of part twice.

What the signs point to on a chart this cardinal and this short of air is more beginning. A career that has already restarted once is a chart like this doing what it does.