Tony Goldwyn

Earth holds five of his ten planets and fire three, leaving one each in air and water. Earth builds and keeps; the elements that would analyse from a distance or take the emotional temperature first are both nearly absent. Goldwyn acts and directs, and the record names two parts twenty years apart, one a film villain and one a long running political drama, which is a working life measured in decades rather than in moments.

The Sun sits on the very last degree of Taurus, forty four minutes of arc from Gemini, so an unrecorded hour decides which sign it belongs to. Taurus holds a position and will not be hurried; Gemini runs two things at once and gets bored first. For somebody who has sustained an acting career and a directing one simultaneously, the chart genuinely does not settle which of those instincts is the identity.

Mercury sits square Pluto one hundredth of a degree from exact, which is the smallest gap the arithmetic allows: speech braced directly against concentrated force. A yod holds the Moon, Neptune and Pluto and does not resolve, and Mars sits at an uneasy angle to Neptune at four hundredths of a degree. That is a great deal of very tight structure for one chart, and it sits on the faculties of speech and drive rather than anywhere comfortable. In an actor who also directs, speech and drive carrying the chart’s hardest aspects is the half of him that runs a set rather than appears on one.

Jupiter finished where it began in Capricorn, on 12 December 2019, at fifty nine, eleven days after Saturn finished its own lap. Capricorn sets any reach against what reaching cost, which is the stricter of the two accounts, and five circuits precede it. Having both slow planets close within a fortnight puts the question of cost and the question of distance in front of somebody at the same moment. His Moon is at the end of Pisces or the start of Aries depending on an hour nobody recorded, so even the private half declines to commit.