Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage is one of cinema's true originals, an actor who can vanish into aching restraint and detonate into pure operatic excess, sometimes in the same film. Born into the Coppola dynasty, he took a new name and built his own legend: early gems like Raising Arizona and Moonstruck, the Best Actor Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas in 1995, blockbuster turns in The Rock, Con Air and Face/Off, and a later renaissance in Pig and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent that hardened his cult following into devotion.

The engine underneath is a Capricorn Sun, the old-soul climber built for the long, disciplined ascent, and it sits in the first house, the most powerful seat of all, where the Sun becomes the star itself. Gaia calls this the one born to be on a stage, shining simply by being himself, the good, the bad and the ugly. His Moon in Libra is the beautiful Venusian moon with its built-in radar for beauty, lived out in the tenth house, the throne of the chart, where feeling plays in full public view: the lunar actor who does not perform a scene but truly feels it. Sagittarius rises, the larger-than-life explorer's mask. He is the emotion made visible.