George Clooney

George Clooney was thirty-three and had spent more than a decade in short-lived sitcoms and unsold pilots when ER premiered in 1994. As Dr. Doug Ross, a charming, reckless pediatrician, he became a star almost overnight, and he spent the next three decades turning that television fame into something rarer: a career as an actor, director, producer and political voice.

He was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, at 2:58 in the morning, according to his birth record, which gives him Pisces rising, with Venus in Aries just inside the first house. Pisces on the Ascendant gives an easy, sympathetic, slightly elusive presence, and Venus close by adds the kind of good looks and warmth that photograph well.

His Sun is in Taurus in the second house, joined by Mercury, also in Taurus. Taurus is steady, sensual and unhurried, and the second house concerns money, possessions and what a person values. Clooney is famous for a relaxed, low-key manner, and he has also been a shrewd businessman: in 2017 he and his partners sold their tequila brand, Casamigos, to Diageo in a deal worth up to a billion dollars.

He grew up in northern Kentucky, the son of Nick Clooney, a local television anchor and host, and the nephew of the singer Rosemary Clooney. As a teenager he had Bell's palsy, which paralyzed part of his face for months. He tried out for the Cincinnati Reds, studied briefly at Northern Kentucky University, and moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, where he took small roles while selling shoes and insurance.

The Moon and Saturn sit together at the end of Capricorn, in the eleventh house, where astrologers look for allies, circles and causes. A Moon beside Saturn is cautious and self-reliant, and Capricorn takes responsibility seriously. Clooney's circle of longtime friends is famous in Hollywood, and his commitment to causes, from Darfur to the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which he founded with his wife, the human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, has been unusually sustained. In 2008 the United Nations named him a Messenger of Peace.

Mars in Leo sits in the fifth house, the stage of the chart, and adds a showman's drive. After the failure of Batman & Robin in 1997, he rebuilt his film career with Out of Sight, Three Kings and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, then Ocean's Eleven. Syriana brought him an Oscar for supporting actor; he directed Good Night, and Good Luck, and shared the Best Picture Oscar as a producer of Argo.

Jupiter in Aquarius, in the twelfth house, describes generosity practiced quietly and a broad, idealistic outlook. In July 2024 he wrote a New York Times essay urging President Joe Biden, a friend whom he had helped raise money for, to end his re-election campaign. The Pisces Ascendant made him easy to like; the Moon and Saturn in Capricorn made him someone people listened to.