Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy has always seemed like two men in one, and his Sun in Gemini explains that shimmering quality perfectly. Gemini is the sign of between, the mercurial twin, the shape-shifter who can hold two opposing truths in a single glance, and Murphy has made a whole career out of that duality. He can be the tender soul and the ice-cold menace, sometimes within the same scene. Since his stage debut in Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs in 1996 he has slid between wildly different skins: the survivor in 28 Days Later, the terrifying Scarecrow across Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight films, the brooding Tommy Shelby of Peaky Blinders, and finally the haunted J. Robert Oppenheimer, which won him the 2024 Golden Globe for Best Actor. Beneath that quicksilver Gemini surface burns a Moon in Aries, the warrior's Moon: a psyche that finds its peace in intensity, drive and full commitment rather than in softness. It is that Martian core that lets him pour himself so fearlessly into a role, holding nothing back. Named among the greatest Irish film actors of all time, he remains, gloriously, impossible to pin down.