Tom Hardy

Three planets out of ten sit in fire and three in water, with two each in earth and air. Fire asserts and water takes the temperature of whatever is in front of it, and with six planets split between them the chart runs hot in both directions at once. Hardy is an English actor born in Hammersmith in 1977, and the record names three titles across film and television rather than one that stands for the rest.

The Sun sits at twenty three degrees of Virgo, the sign that works at something until the detail of it is right and is rarely persuaded that it is yet. The Moon answers from Libra, which reads the other person in the room before deciding anything. For an actor those are the two halves of the craft put plainly: the preparation done alone, and the attention paid to whoever is standing opposite in the scene.

Not one of the ten planets was retrograde at his birth, and nothing in the chart forms a yod, a T-square or a grand trine, which makes this an unusually unencumbered chart: everything moving forward and nothing braced against anything else. Mars makes easy contact with Uranus at half a degree and an awkward one with Saturn at four fifths, so drive gets on with disruption and argues with restraint. In an actor whose record names three titles rather than one, that is the half of the chart doing the choosing.

Jupiter stood once more on the Cancer degree it started from, on 26 June 2025, at forty seven. Cancer is interested in what was kept rather than in ground covered, which is a strange question to put to an actor, since the work is given away each time it is finished. Four laps of the planet by then, and the parts the record names are spread across the most recent two rather than concentrated in one, which is the shape a chart with nothing retrograde and nothing braced tends to produce: forward motion, distributed, with no single structure holding it in place.