Andrew Garfield

For most of 2021, Andrew Garfield lied to almost everyone. Asked again and again whether he would appear in Spider-Man: No Way Home, he denied it with a straight face, in interview after interview, until the film opened in December and audiences saw him swing back into the role. Afterward he joked about how strange it had been to keep the secret. The episode says something about him: a performer who can hold a great deal beneath a calm surface.

That fits a chart with Pisces rising. Garfield was born at 8:40 p.m. on August 20, 1983, in Los Angeles, from a birth record rated AA by Astro-Databank, and the evening time puts Pisces on the Ascendant. Pisces is the sign astrologers associate with empathy, imagination and permeability, the actor's sign, able to dissolve into whatever it is absorbing. As a first impression it reads as gentle and open, which is how audiences tend to see him.

He was born in California but raised in Epsom, Surrey, after his family moved to England when he was three, and he trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. His career has swung between franchise and art house. He played Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network, Peter Parker in two Amazing Spider-Man films, and a conscientious objector turned combat medic in Hacksaw Ridge, which earned his first Oscar nomination. On Broadway he won a Tony Award in 2018 for Angels in America, and he was nominated for an Oscar again for playing Jonathan Larson, the composer of Rent, in Lin-Manuel Miranda's 2021 film of Larson's autobiographical musical.

His Sun is in Leo in the sixth house. Leo wants to create and be seen; the sixth house is the house of work, craft and service. The pairing describes a performer whose self-expression runs through labor and preparation rather than celebrity, someone more likely to talk about the job than the red carpet. Venus, also in the sixth and in Virgo, reinforces the craftsman's streak with a taste for precision.

The Moon sits at the very start of Aquarius in the eleventh house, the house of friendship and community. Aquarius Moons tend to process feeling through ideas and through their circles rather than in isolation. Garfield has spoken publicly and tenderly about grief since his mother's death in 2019, often framing it in terms of love shared with others, which is close to how astrologers describe this placement.

Mercury, Saturn and Pluto gather in the seventh house, which governs close partnerships. Saturn there takes one-on-one bonds seriously, sometimes heavily, and Pluto deepens them.

The secret of No Way Home was a joke, in the end, and he enjoyed it. But the ability behind it was real: a Pisces face, a Leo heart working overtime in the sixth house, and a lot going on underneath.