Taissa Farmiga

Taissa Farmiga is known for American Horror Story, an anthology that recasts the same actors as different people every season, which is a specific professional demand: be recognisable and be somebody else.

She was born at Whitehouse Station on 17 August 1994 with the Sun at the end of Leo and Mercury on the very last degree of it. Leo is the sign the Sun rules and the sign of performance; having speech on the final degree with it concentrates the whole presentational half of the chart into one place. Her Moon, though, is in Capricorn, with Uranus and Neptune beside it, and the Sun sits awkwardly against that Moon under half a degree off. Warmth and visibility on one side, reserve and long patience on the other, and the two in friction.

Venus is the planet under most pressure. It sits three minutes of arc from a hard angle to Pluto, a quarter of a degree from an awkward one to Saturn, and in uncomfortable contact with the Sun. Taste and self-worth pressed on from three directions at once. In an actress repeatedly cast as fragile or haunted, that is the cluster being used rather than suffered.

Air gets a single planet against four in water, so the chart feels far more readily than it comments, and three slow planets are retrograde, which keeps most of it off the record.

Her Saturn return came in March 2024, at twenty nine. A first circuit of Saturn asks which parts of the arrangement were load-bearing, and for an actress who started at eighteen inside an ensemble, the honest answer is usually that the ensemble was. What the chart leaves open is whether the Capricorn half, which is the patient half and the half that keeps its own counsel, ever gets a turn at choosing the parts rather than taking them.