Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg is a study in reinvention, a man who has worn many skins: troubled Boston kid, chart-topping rapper as Marky Mark, then leading man, then producer and businessman. With the Sun in Gemini, the marriage of Helios and Mercury, he shines through versatility, that eternal twin who is two people in one and can slip between comedy, action and drama without missing a beat; the born communicator and salesperson who has effectively had every job under the sun. That Sun sits in the twelfth house, the unknowable, private realm, which fits a public figure who guards an inner self few ever really see.

His Moon in Scorpio is the emotional volcano, the phoenix that dies and is reborn; nothing is met at fifty-fifty, it is all or nothing, and this is the engine of his repeated transformations, from a hard youth to real depth on screen in Boogie Nights, The Departed and The Fighter. Sitting in the fifth house of creativity and children, that Moon ties his peace of mind to what he makes, and he treats each venture, from Wahlburgers to his HBO productions, like his own baby. His Cancer Ascendant, the tender crab's shell, is the guarded, family-first mask he wears out the front door.