Sam Claflin

Sam Claflin came out of The Hunger Games, which is a particular kind of start: a franchise gives an actor an enormous audience and a very narrow idea of what he is.

He was born at Ipswich on 27 June 1986 with not one planet in air and four each in fire and water. Air is the element that observes and keeps a comfortable distance; having none of it with that much fire and water means nothing in the chart cools either the assertion or the feeling. Four slow planets are retrograde along with Mars, so five of the ten run inward, and the chart has no aspect patterns at all: nothing is locked into a T-square or a yod, so the tension has no fixed architecture and no single place it returns to.

His Sun is in Cancer and his Moon in Pisces, both water, in reasonable agreement. Cancer builds identity around belonging to something and defending it; a Pisces Moon absorbs whatever is in the room and needs to be alone afterwards to work out which feelings were its own. That is a soft, permeable combination, and it is not the equipment of an actor who was ever going to enjoy being a franchise.

The Sun makes an easy angle to Pluto under a degree, which is concentrated force available without struggle, and his Moon makes a creative angle to Neptune a third of a degree off, which is imagination at no cost. Those two are the talent, and everything else in the chart is unanchored. A career of good parts in other people's films, rather than one film of his own, is what that unanchoring looks like from outside.

What the signs point to on an arrangement this structureless is work chosen one part at a time. A chart with no patterns does not have a trajectory built into it, and an actor with no air to stand back with tends to find out what he is doing by doing it. The parts since the franchise have been better and smaller, which is usually the sign of somebody choosing rather than being chosen.