Casey Affleck has been getting rave reviews for his starring role in Manchester by the Sea, a brooding tale of an uncle left to bring up his nephew.
Born 12 August 1975 7.38 pm Falmouth. MA, three years after his brother Ben, he had an alcoholic father, whom his well-educated and theatre-loving mother divorced when he was 9.
He’s had a chequered acting career and personal life, appearing early on in Good Will Hunting with family friend Matt Damon and his brother Ben, then acting in a string of bad movies, plus making the bizarre mockumentary with Joaquin Phoenix, his then brother-in-law; plus having two sexual harassment suits which were settled out of court in 2010 re-appearing in the headlines as this movie becomes a success.
He’s got a trickier chart than his brother Ben – 15 Aug 1972 2.53am Berkeley, CA. Though there are some similarities. Both are Leo Suns trine Jupiter in a Fire sign; with Scorpio Moons. So confident entertainers with intense emotional lives. But Casey has Pluto and Uranus in his 8th, so he’ll be marginally more erratic, than Ben who has Uranus Pluto in his 4th. Though in both cases it points to major emotional upheavals and disruptions in their family lives. Casey said his grandmother was also alcoholic so that may account for his 8th house planets.
He also has a hard and determined Mars in Taurus in the 3rd sextile Saturn in Cancer, square Mercury and inconjunct Uranus – so he will have anger and self-control issues. Neptune on his midheaven certainly suits him for the film business, and he does have a charming Sun, Mercury, Venus in his 7th so can turn on smiles when necessary. His Jupiter opposes Uranus squaring onto Saturn in Cancer in his 6th which will have been discouraging in the early part of his adult career, but should be mellowing now through his middle years. He’s got initiative but won’t be too good at sharing the driving seat in projects.
Another actor with Uranus Pluto in the 8th is Kiefer Sutherland, who has the same troubled bad-boy-come-good-in-later-life pattern.
Casey Affleck should be working hard in coming years, with tr Saturn moving through his upper quadrant; with some highs this year from tr Uranus square his Jupiter; and even more success when tr Pluto is square his Jupiter. But as ever his tendency to attract the good and the bad together will be around as well.