Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane created Family Guy, a show that has run longer than most careers, and does several of its voices himself. Writing, performing and running the thing is three jobs, and the chart is unusually concentrated.

He was born at Kent, in Connecticut, on 26 October 1973 with the Sun, Moon and Mercury all in Scorpio. Scorpio builds identity around depth and self-possession, with a privacy that is less secretiveness than an unwillingness to be known on anybody else's schedule. Having both lights and the planet of speech inside it is a very closed arrangement for somebody whose output is relentlessly public, and it goes some way to explaining a body of work that is enormously exposed in content and gives almost nothing away about its author.

The Sun squares Jupiter half a degree from exact and sits in a T-square with Mars. Identity against scale, with drive pulling at right angles to both and nowhere for the strain to resolve. Sun square Jupiter is the aspect of overreaching, of taking on more than is sensible because the appetite is real at the time. A man running an animated series, a live-action one, an orchestra record and a film career at once has that aspect doing exactly what it does.

Saturn squares Pluto under three quarters of a degree and sits in a yod with Jupiter and Neptune, so the chart has structure, force, scale and image all tangled with no comfortable outlet. Four planets in water against one in earth means there is far more feeling in here than the comedy admits to.

His Jupiter return came in January 2021, at forty seven. On a chart whose defining aspect is the Sun against Jupiter, a year that offers more is not straightforwardly good news, and the useful question it raises is what finally gets handed to somebody else.