Terry Crews

Terry Crews played in the NFL and then became an actor, which is a specific kind of career change: the first job ends around thirty whether you like it or not, and almost nobody finds a second one that uses the same body differently.

He was born at Flint, in Michigan, on 30 July 1968 with the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Libra. Leo is the sign the Sun rules, so identity is solid and visible, with a natural claim on a room. A Libra Moon needs that room level and is genuinely destabilised by conflict. Together they describe somebody enormously present and constitutionally unaggressive, which is an odd combination in a professional athlete and the whole basis of the comic persona that followed.

Mars squares Saturn by just over half a degree, drive against an immovable rule, and makes an easy angle to Uranus a quarter of a degree closer still. Those two together are the athlete's aspects: force meeting resistance, and force in productive contact with the unexpected, which is reaction speed. Having both at that precision in one chart is unusual, and it reads as a body that was always going to be the instrument.

There is a yod across Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, a tension with no natural resolution, and three planets group in Virgo with Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto. Virgo is doing the thing properly; having scale, disruption and pressure inside it belongs to somebody who rebuilds rather than repeats, which is the only way anybody gets a second career out of a body that has already been used up once.

His Jupiter return came in September 2015, at forty seven, which is late for a first act and about right for a second. A chart with Mars this busy and a Libra Moon was never going to retire quietly, and the twelve years it opened have mostly been spent on camera rather than on a field.