Sally Field

When Sally Field won her second Academy Award, for Places in the Heart in 1985, she told the audience, "I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!" The line was mocked and endlessly misquoted as "You really like me," and it followed her for years. But it was also an honest admission from an actress who had spent two decades fighting to be taken seriously after starting out as Gidget and the Flying Nun.

She was born at 4:23 a.m. on November 6, 1946, in Pasadena, California, according to her birth certificate. Her Sun is in Scorpio in the first house, with Jupiter also in Scorpio there. Scorpio is the sign of intensity, endurance and hidden depths; the first house is the self and how it is projected. A Scorpio Sun in the first suggests someone whose force of personality shows plainly, someone who does not let go of what she wants.

That intensity was not what Hollywood first saw. Libra is rising in her chart, the sign astrologers associate with charm, sweetness and an easy likability, and as a young actress she was cast accordingly. At eighteen she played the surfer girl Gidget on television, then a nun who could fly. The sunny image proved hard to shake.

She shook it with work. She studied at the Actors Studio, and her 1976 performance as a woman with multiple personalities in the television film Sybil won an Emmy. Three years later she played a textile worker who becomes a union organizer in Norma Rae and won her first Oscar. Places in the Heart brought the second. Then came Steel Magnolias, Mrs. Doubtfire, the mother in Forrest Gump, and decades later Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, which earned her another nomination.

Saturn and Pluto are paired in Leo in her tenth house, which concerns career and public standing. Saturn tends to make success slow and hard-won, and Pluto describes transformation under pressure. It is a fitting configuration for a career that moved from sitcom novelty to two Best Actress Oscars only through sustained effort and reinvention.

Her Moon is in Aries in the sixth house, the area of daily work. Aries Moons are combative and quick to fight for themselves, and in the sixth that energy goes into the job. Field has described herself as driven by work from a young age. Her mother, Margaret Field, was also an actress, and acting became both a refuge and a way to be seen.

In 2018 she published a memoir, In Pieces, about her childhood and her relationship with her mother, written with the same candor as her famous Oscar speech. The Libra rising got her cast; the Scorpio Sun made sure she was eventually taken seriously.