Matthew Perry

Some people you simply cannot help but notice when they walk into a room, and Matthew Perry was one of them. Born with the Sun in Leo and rising in Leo too, he carried a double dose of that lion-hearted, sun-at-the-centre energy: charismatic, magnetic, effortlessly the star of his own solar system. This is the Sun in its own kingdom, and it shone on the world through Chandler Bing, the wry, wisecracking heart of Friends across ten seasons from 1994 to 2004, a role that won him a Screen Actors Guild ensemble award and made his timing famous. He went on to Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards, The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and later created and starred in Mr. Sunshine and Go On.

Yet behind the golden mask lived a Moon in Scorpio: an emotional volcano, calm on the surface, churning underneath, meeting love and pain at full intensity. That depth surfaced in his long, candid battle with addiction, his advocacy for recovery, and his 2022 memoir. The lion who could make anyone laugh was also a phoenix, forever burning down and rising again.