Rosie O'Donnell

Rosie O'Donnell is a comedian and a talk show host, both of which consist of saying things out loud to a very large number of people, and she has been more publicly combative than most people who do either.

She was born at Commack on 21 March 1962 with the Sun at thirty five minutes of arc into Aries. That is the first degree of the first sign, the opening of the entire zodiac, and it is the most Aries position available: identity built around going first, needing something to push against, and inclined to supply an opponent when none is offered. For a career made of opinions delivered in public, the chart does not bury its subject.

Both Mercury and Mars face Pluto across that chart, each under a degree from exact. Mercury is speech and Mars is drive; Pluto is force and whatever refuses to be said politely. Having both of them opposite it is a rare and very specific arrangement: it describes somebody whose talking is a form of confrontation whether or not she intends it, and who does not experience backing down as an available option. A talk show host with that configuration was always going to end up in the news rather than merely reporting it.

The cost sits in Venus. It is at an awkward angle to Neptune and in hard contact with Jupiter, both under half a degree. Affection tangled with illusion on one side and with excess on the other: wanting more warmth than the situation contains, and being disappointed in a way that was built in from the start. Earth gets a single planet out of ten, so almost nothing in the chart steadies any of it. A working life of public feuds is what that looks like when the person also has a microphone.

Her Moon is at the end of Virgo or the start of Libra and the hour was never recorded, so this site will not pick, but both want the room settled, which is an uncomfortable thing to carry in a chart otherwise organised around confrontation. A comedian who needs the room level and cannot stop unsettling it is the whole of the tension.

Jupiter arrived back at its starting degree on 24 December 2021, a month after Saturn had done the same, at fifty nine. Both slow planets closed their circuits within weeks of each other, which is rarer than either alone, and tends to arrive with a change in what the work is actually for.