R. Madhavan

Fire is entirely absent from his chart. Four planets sit in earth and four in air, with two in water, so the chart builds and analyses and holds nothing that simply ignites. Madhavan acted for years and then directed and starred in a film about a scientist, which is a late change of role requiring somebody to take charge of a production rather than turn up to one.

The Sun sits at ten degrees of Gemini while the Moon, Mercury and Saturn group across eleven degrees of Taurus. Gemini runs several things at once and Taurus refuses to be hurried, so the public half is quick and the private half is slow, which is a productive combination for anybody who waits two decades and then does the difficult thing properly. Saturn sitting with the Moon and Mercury puts discipline next to both feeling and speech.

Mars stands awkwardly against Neptune at a ninth of a degree, the tightest contact in the chart: drive permanently out of step with image, which for an actor is the gap between what he wants to do and how he is seen. Four of the ten planets were running backwards at his birth, Jupiter and Pluto among them, so a substantial part of the chart faces inward.

Jupiter stood on its Libra birth degree once more on 25 September 2017, at forty seven, in reverse as it was originally. Libra weighs one option against another and declines to close either down, which is a fair description of holding an acting career open while preparing to direct. Four circuits come before it, and the film he made himself arrived in the lap after. His Moon sits at the end of Aries or the start of Taurus depending on an hour nobody recorded, and the private half is left undecided between impatience and the long wait he actually took.