Ben Affleck, the multi-talented actor and director, has gone back into rehab for drinking, an addiction which has plagued him, his father, his grandmother and his brother Casey.
Born 15 August 1972 2.53 am Berkeley, California, he has an expansive Sun Leo trine an indulgent Jupiter in Sagittarius in his 6th house. He has a ‘missing male model’ Saturn in the 12th; and an unsettled and erratic 4th house of Pluto and Uranus, which points to his experience of his childhood and father. His charming Venus on his Ascendant also squares Uranus and trines an intensely emotional Scorpio Moon. And only one Earth planet which won’t be enough to keep him grounded.
His father left the home when he was 12 and lived homeless for a while before getting sober.
He’s moving through a really tricky two years ahead with an insecure tr Uranus trine his Mars this year and into early 2019; his Solar Arc Mars conjunct his 4th house Uranus within six months which will be edgy and disruptive; tr Neptune in a confused and uncertain square to his Saturn in 2019/2020; and his Progressed Mars conjunct his Pluto over the next eighteen months which is heavy duty. All his childhood demons will be stirred up.
He has quintiles and septiles linking his self-destructive planets – 5th and 7th and actors’ 15th Harmonics – so he’ll create out of a deep well of pain. His victim 12th is also heavily aspected and tormented.
His humanitarian interests have been focussed on the Congo with his Sun MC and Mercury MC running through central Africa – drawn to a brutalised country to do good work.
All that talent but it comes at a price.