Anyone who’s seen Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap knows her as twins. Same face, but two different accents, two different personalities, both of them well-developed and well-played. Astrologically, despite her having neither Gemini nor Libra planets, she really is twins. That’s because she’s got a see-saw pattern chart, with one set of planets occupying one side (Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) and an entirely other set filling up the other (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter).

What’s more, it’s not an equal mix of light and dark, but a dark side (Saturn and outer planets) and a light side (Lights, Venus, Mercury). She’s got all the traditionally positive/benefic planets (including Jupiter) on one side swinging against the heavy/malefic planets on the other. That may not mean she’s a Jekyll and Hyde, but it does mean that as daily and monthly rhythms spark her chart they emphasize first one side, then the other.

Fortunately, for an actor it’s quite helpful to see the demarcation between the light and frothy and the deep and intense, as the interplay between the two is what drama is all about. In your personal life, as you’re growing up, that doesn’t make things easier for you until you get them into balance. Particularly in this case, as the contacts between the two sides aren’t a piece of cake. Venus-Uranus trine gives sparkling interplay and popped her up early as a child actor and model, but the tight Mercury-Pluto square gives her a stubborn mind that adds to her already dug-in Taurus Moon, so she tends not to listen to reason until she’s actually made the mistake she was warned about. Similarly, with Sun opposite Neptune, when fantasy in the form of escape through partying or alcohol calls, she’s not sure how to handle it (although that same aspect is great for playing fantasy roles in the movies — no wonder actors tend to have this problem).

Current events: It’s big change time for Lindsay, as anyone reading the papers will glean. But real change, not just reruns of the usual rehab saga. Her progressed Sun and Mercury have just moved out of Cancer and into Leo, so she’s doing her own version of coming out and blossoming, along with progressed Moon slipping into Pisces and putting her into a more introspective, spiritual mode. You could say she’s coming and going at the same time. Although with Leo and Pisces you might think it could be parties and alcohol, since we know she’s just been there it’s an educated guess that her innate determination will choose a new path in response, hopefully with a little nanny-software to block the likes of Paris Hilton.