Steven Yeun

The chart places four planets in fire signs and four in water, with one each in earth and air. Fire acts and water absorbs, and nothing here grounds either or stands outside to assess. Yeun was born in Seoul and is the first Asian American actor nominated for the lead Oscar, which is a fact about an industry as much as about a performance.

The Sun sits on the twenty ninth degree of Sagittarius, the last of the sign, with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune in it too. Sagittarius heads outward and assumes the next place will take it. A second trio of Venus, Saturn and Pluto sits in Scorpio, which keeps everything. For somebody whose working life has crossed between countries and industries, the restless sign and the retentive one are both well represented. An actor whose working life has crossed between two countries needs the restless sign to leave and the retentive one to carry it with him.

The Sun sits conjunct Neptune at a quarter of a degree, identity fused to the planet of image, which in an actor is either the whole gift or the whole difficulty and is usually both. The Sun is also at a hard angle to Saturn at seven tenths, so limit arrives from the other side. Every planet in his chart was moving forward when he was born.

Jupiter rejoined its birth degree in Sagittarius on 1 November 2019, at thirty five. That is the planet of reach returning to the sign it governs, the clearest run the arithmetic allows it, and Sagittarius counts distance covered rather than depth. Three laps precede it, and the nomination the record leads with arrived in the lap that followed. A chart with no retrogrades and almost no earth is a strange thing to hand somebody who moved between two countries and two industries, since neither of those is done quickly or by instinct alone. The Moon in Cancer makes easy contact with Saturn at two fifths of a degree, which is the one steadying thread in it.