Caitriona Balfe

Caitriona Balfe carries the poise of someone who has learned to hold beauty and truth in the same hand. Her Sun shines in Libra, the Venusian sign of the Scale, where one radiates through balance, symmetry and grace, the eye that sees beauty in the subtlest things. It is little wonder she spent a decade as a fashion model in Paris before the pull of the craft called her back to acting, for Libra shines by refining the aesthetic and reading both sides of a scene. That Sun sits in the third house of communication and self-effort, the anti-lazy go-getter's house; she is a doer who turned her hands and her voice into a living. She wears a Leo Ascendant, the regal, magnetic mask that makes a room turn when she enters, a natural performer built to hold the torch. Beneath it flows a Moon in Pisces, the ultimate empath's Moon, saint-like, psychic, tuned to divine imagination, and this is the very soul of her Claire Fraser in Outlander, a role that drew four Golden Globe nominations. Placed in the ninth house of foreign horizons and deep questions, that tender Moon feeds on the epic and the far away. Belfast then earned her Golden Globe and BAFTA nods.