Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman shines with a Gemini Sun, the marriage of Helios and Mercury, the sign of the shape-shifting twin who is always two persons in one. This is the vitality of endless versatility, and few actresses have worn as many faces: the Australian and American star has moved across genres for four decades, from her early breakthrough in Dead Calm and Days of Thunder to a mercurial gallery of roles including To Die For, Moulin Rouge! and Big Little Lies. Her Sun sits in the eighth house of transformation, death and rebirth, the phoenix territory where she illuminates the buried and the psychologically dark, which is precisely the terrain of her Oscar-winning Virginia Woolf in The Hours.

Her Moon in Sagittarius seeks emotional peace only through freedom, expansion and the open road, a philosopher's Moon that changes the atmosphere of any room. It rests in the second house, where feeling and self-worth intertwine with what one values and earns.

Her Scorpio Ascendant is the phoenix-and-serpent mask, intense and all-or-nothing, a survivor who sees through people at hello. Kidman is far warmer than that guarded avatar suggests, a longtime UNICEF ambassador who has quietly nurtured beyond the screen.