Steve Coogan

Four planets of the ten sit in water signs, with two apiece in fire, earth and air. Water registers a thing before deciding anything about it, and nothing else here dominates. Coogan created Alan Partridge, and the record also names him an actor and producer of Philomena and The Trip.

The Sun sits at twenty one degrees of Libra with Mercury just beyond it in Scorpio, and the Moon answers from Gemini at eight. Libra attends to whoever is in the room; Gemini keeps two accounts of the same event going at once. A comedian whose best known creation is a man permanently misreading the room needs the Libra Sun to know exactly what the room wants and the Gemini Moon to hold both the character and the view of him at the same time.

Mercury sits in mild friction with Uranus five hundredths of a degree from exact and with Pluto at under a fifth, so speech is rubbing against both the planet that refuses the expected arrangement and concentrated force. Uranus and Pluto sit conjunct at a ninth of a degree between them. A T-square holds the Moon, Mars and Saturn with no outlet. Saturn alone was retrograde. In a comedian, speech braced against both the break and concentrated force is where an uncomfortable voice comes from.

On 15 June 2025 Jupiter stood again on its Cancer birth degree, at fifty nine, fifteen months after Saturn had closed its own second lap. Cancer asks what was held on to, and four circuits precede it. For somebody whose record names a character from the start of a career and two films from much later, what was held on to is the thread between them. Speech braced against both Uranus and Pluto is where a comic voice that uncomfortable comes from. His Moon sits directly opposite Mars at four fifths of a degree, private feeling against its own drive, and that pair is caught in the T-square with Saturn as well. For a performer who writes the character and then has to be him, a chart with feeling braced twice over is the equipment rather than the difficulty.