John Krasinski

The most important creative partnership in John Krasinski's career is also his marriage. In 2018 he directed, co-wrote and starred in A Quiet Place, a horror film about a family surviving in silence, opposite his wife, Emily Blunt. It became one of the surprise hits of the year, spawned a franchise and changed how Hollywood saw the actor best known for playing a mild-mannered paper salesman.

His chart puts partnership and creativity in the same place. He was born at 8:44 p.m. on October 20, 1979, in the Boston area, a time quoted from his birth record, and his Sun and Moon are both in Libra, almost exactly conjoined, in the fifth house. Libra is the sign of partnership and balance, and the fifth house governs creativity, romance and play. With the Sun and Moon together there, born just after a new moon, astrologers would expect someone whose sense of self and emotional needs both run through creative collaboration and love. Pluto in Libra sits in the same house, adding intensity.

He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, the youngest of three brothers, and studied playwriting at Brown University. In 2005 he was cast as Jim Halpert in the American version of The Office, the eye-rolling everyman whose glances at the camera became the show's emotional center. For nine seasons he was the most likable man on television.

Gemini is on his Ascendant, the sign of wit, curiosity and easy conversation. It suits the affable, talkative public presence and the timing that made Jim's reactions so funny. During the pandemic lockdown in 2020 he launched Some Good News, a homemade web show of uplifting stories that briefly became a phenomenon.

Mercury and Venus share Scorpio in his sixth house of daily work. Scorpio is intense and drawn to darkness, and in the sixth it describes work that goes deep. The sitcom actor turned out to be well suited to tension, first in A Quiet Place and its sequel, then as the CIA analyst in Amazon's Jack Ryan, which he played from 2018 to 2023.

Jupiter and Saturn both sit in Virgo in the fourth house of home and family, a careful, responsible placement. Krasinski and Blunt married in 2010 and have two daughters, and they have kept their family life largely private, letting the work they make together speak for the partnership.

In 2024 People magazine named him its Sexiest Man Alive, a title that would have seemed unlikely for Jim Halpert. The Libra Sun and Moon in the house of creativity had found their best expression in a film made with the person closest to him.