Simon Helberg

His ten planets divide three in fire, three in air, two in earth and two in water, with five of the ten in cardinal signs and not one of them retrograde. Nothing here is scarce and nothing faces backwards. The record names Helberg an American actor of The Big Bang Theory and a pianist.

The Sun sits at eighteen degrees of Sagittarius with Mercury at six and Neptune at twenty two, three planets in the sign built around the pursuit of something larger. Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto make a second group across sixteen degrees of Libra. The Moon answers from Capricorn at fourteen, managing the feeling rather than showing it. For somebody the record credits with a comic part and an instrument, the two groups divide the work neatly between what gets announced and what gets negotiated.

The Moon sits conjunct Mars three hundredths of a degree from exact, which is about as close as a pair of planets gets, and the reading is emotion that acts immediately: protectiveness, courage on somebody else's behalf, and a temper that arrives and leaves faster than anybody else adjusts to it. Jupiter sits conjunct Saturn at just over a degree, ambition and realism in one place, which is optimism with a structure underneath it. Mercury sits sixty degrees from that same Jupiter at just over a degree. In a pianist, feeling welded that tightly to drive is the contact the practice comes out of.

Jupiter came back round to its Libra birth degree on 13 October 2016, at thirty five, and two laps precede it. Libra asks who else was in the room, and for a record that names an ensemble comedy and a solo instrument, the answer is different for each. A Moon three hundredths of a degree from Mars, in a chart with nothing retrograde anywhere, describes somebody whose feeling and whose action are the same gesture and who has never had to argue with himself about it.