Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey is that rare comet who can make you howl with laughter and then, without warning, break your heart. His Sun sits in Capricorn, the Saturn-ruled old soul with the ambitious climber's drive to reach the highest rung, and beneath all the rubber-faced chaos there has always been a serious craftsman scaling a very tall ladder. That Sun shines in the third house of communication and self-effort, the anti-lazy house of the go-getter who dazzles with the hands and the voice; his whole art is dexterity, expression, the body used as language. His Moon is in Gemini, the quicksilver, restless, mercurial Moon that finds comfort in constant motion and words, the born mimic wired for a thousand voices at once. Placed in the eighth house of death and rebirth, that is the phoenix's Moon, the survivor forever rising from the ashes, and it explains the darker gravity beneath the clown: the man of Ace Ventura and The Mask who also gave us The Truman Show, Man on the Moon and the aching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. His Scorpio Ascendant, the all-or-nothing mask that sees through phonies, completes the picture. Comedian, dramatist, painter, author: intensity is his native tongue.