Samantha Morton

Fire takes five of her ten planets, earth two, air two and water a single one. Fire acts and asks afterwards; the element that would register what any of it cost is nearly absent. Morton was nominated for Sweet and Lowdown and In America, and the record says she directed a film about her own childhood.

The Moon, Venus and Mars sit inside twelve degrees of Aries, with the Moon on the second degree of the sign, and the Sun answers from Taurus at twenty two. Aries begins things and does not wait to be asked; Taurus holds whatever it is given. For somebody who moved from being cast in other people's films to directing her own history, the Aries group is the half that went and did it and the Taurus Sun is the half that kept hold of the material.

Four named patterns run through this chart, which is a great deal of structure for one birth. Two kites both hold Saturn, Neptune and Pluto, one closing with Venus and the other with Mars, and a yod holds Mars, Jupiter and Uranus without resolving. Mars sits directly opposite Pluto at a third of a degree and conjunct Venus at under three fifths. Four of her ten planets were facing backwards when she was born. For a director as well as an actress, drive at the centre of three figures is a chart that will not let the work settle into one job.

Jupiter closed a full circuit on its Gemini birth degree on 2 July 2024, at forty seven. Gemini asks how many different things were attempted, and three circuits come before it. For somebody whose record names two nominated performances and then a film she made herself, how many things is the measure it already uses. Two kites and a yod sharing Mars is the structure to keep: drive at the centre of three separate figures, none of which lets it settle. Her Moon sits on the second degree of Aries at noon and may have been in Pisces, which leaves the private half open between starting things and dissolving into them. With a single planet in water, this is a chart that acts well before it works out what the acting cost.