Although Dustin Hoffman was voted actor “Least Likely to Succeed” along with his classmate Gene Hackman at the Pasadena Playhouse, no astrologer would consider that possibility. This chart is simply oozing with talent and good fortune, with an unlikely two grand trines hogging every planet in the chart except Sun and Venus.

But would this be the fortunate chart of an actor? With Jupiter (ruler of the craft) conjunct the Ascendant, part of a grand earth trine with Uranus, Neptune, Moon, and Mercury, you could bet on it. How about a comedian? Sure, as that art’s ruler Uranus is in the same grand trine — and better yet, it’s square the Sun, giving it an extra edge that would allow him to play really discomfortingly weird semi-comic parts (Tootsie, Rain Man).

Further, since it’s a splash chart, he could do virtually anything he wanted to, and only really be self-fulfilling if he did just that. He’s been an actor’s actor all these years because he can play almost any part, anytime. And his signature style is really wrapped up in the relationship between those two planets not in the grand trines and the grand trines themselves, a square in each case. The Sun engages the grand earth trine with a square, making him always seem a bit of the oddball, and Venus squares Saturn in the out-of-sign grand fire (mostly) trine of Saturn-Pluto-Mars, which adds a curious retreating, self-effacing quality to both his charm and his sexuality, key to his first big role in The Graduate and many more after it.

Current events: As if he’s not been playing the old guy (well, he is one) quite enough lately in the likes of the Fockers’ set, he’s just getting his progressed Moon to his progressed and natal Saturn this year, followed by a sweep of that Virgo stellium by transiting Saturn next year. Watch that age factor ratchet up, with maybe a bit of the inner tragedy card played along with it. This master has got lots of cards still left in his deck, you can be sure…