If there is one sure signature in Alec Baldwin’s chart, it’s that he knows what he wants. It may not be the same thing all the time, but when he’s on it, he doesn’t flinch. This is the result of a whole chart that circles around a grand trine of Mercury, Saturn, and Pluto, spiked by Venus-Pluto opposition making the whole picture into a Cupid’s Bow (also called a kite). This is must-have, will-get, non-stop determination which is decisive and sometimes confrontational, but is willing to bide until the time is right. Here is the man who could have been a one-man Jack Ryan franchise after Hunt for Red October but chose to let Harrison Ford have it and follow his own, patient muse. That’s the fundamental picture.

More noticeable sometimes, however, is that he’s an Aries with a Full Moon in Libra, so he swings like a pendulum and is the first to take an emotional or physical swing in situations that get him heated up. Add a volatile T-square of Mars, Uranus, and Neptune and you’ll see how angry he can get when conflicts of humanitarian or political principle are involved. He is very much the social democrat (with a small “d”) and with the conjunction of Neptune and Jupiter (often called “The High Priest”) right on his life-guiding North Node, he’s bound to be preachy and feels obligated to say what he believes is the spiritual word coming down from on high.

Finally, Mercury on his South Node gives him not only the gift of gab but a fortunate choice of words (usually) which may get him into controversy but almost always pays off later like a gift from above. Astrology students take note: this is a classic chart where every planet is strongly engaged and like its owner, never truly on the sidelines even when there’s a pause in the action.

Current events: his progressed Sun has just moved into Gemini, so expect him to further expand his game, especially into writing and new forms of media.