Richard E. Grant

Of his ten planets, four sit in earth signs, three in fire, three in water and not one in air. This chart has no air in it at all, which is the element that would stand back and put the thing into words. Grant is an actor born in Eswatini, and the record names Withnail and I and an Academy Award nomination thirty years later for Can You Ever Forgive Me?.

The Sun, Mercury and Venus sit inside six degrees of Taurus, a very tight group in the sign that holds its position and will not be hurried, with the Sun and Mercury conjunct at under a degree. The Moon answers from Cancer. Taurus does not experience thirty years between two notable parts as a setback, which is the plainest thing this chart has to say about a record built that way.

Mercury sits in mild friction with Mars at eleven hundredths of a degree, as close as the arithmetic puts a pair, so speech and drive are permanently just at odds. Mars makes easy contact with Neptune at under two fifths. Five of the ten planets were retrograde at his birth, Mercury among them, which turns the speaking half inward with the whole slow end of the chart. For an actor, speech rubbing against drive is where a distinctive delivery comes from.

Saturn arrived back on its Sagittarius birth degree on 16 October 2016, at fifty nine, ten weeks after Jupiter had closed its own lap. That is a second Saturn return, and Sagittarius states the thing plainly, so what the planet of consequence asks there is what the stating cost. The nomination the record names arrived two years after that return, which puts the second of his two notable parts after the reckoning rather than before it. Three planets inside six degrees of Taurus is the tightest thing in this chart and the least dramatic, and it is probably why a thirty year gap between two named parts reads as patience rather than as a stall. With no air anywhere, none of that waiting was spent working out what it meant.