Patricia Heaton

Four of her planets sit in water signs and only one in air, with three in fire and two in earth. Water takes the temperature of a room before deciding anything, and the element that would stand back and analyse it is nearly missing. Heaton won two Emmys for a sitcom, which is a format where the same handful of people play the same handful of people in the same room for years on end.

The Sun sits at fourteen degrees of Pisces with Mercury less than a degree away. Pisces keeps no firm edge of its own and takes the shape of whatever it has entered, and having speech fused to it means the voice goes wherever the part does. For a performer whose job was to be one particular wife and mother every week for nine years, a Sun that adapts rather than insists is the equipment rather than a limitation.

Venus sits square Neptune at an eighth of a degree, the tightest pair in the chart, and the two of them sit inside a T-square with Uranus, so what she values is braced at right angles between image and disruption with no outlet in the configuration. Four of the ten were in retrograde motion at her birth, which is a substantial part of the chart facing the other way. For an actress who spent nine years being one recognisable television wife, taste braced between image and disruption is the pressure the format itself applies.

Saturn worked its way back to its opening Sagittarius degree on 4 November 2017, at fifty nine, which is a second Saturn return rather than a first. The first asks what the opening thirty years built; the second asks whether it was worth holding on to. Sagittarius, the sign that is already looking at the next thing, is a restless place to be asked either. Her Moon sits at the very end of Leo or the start of Virgo depending on an hour nobody wrote down, so the private half of the chart could be either performing and correcting, and for a comic actress that is the whole range of the job.