Jude Law who was the unexpected lead for Paolo Sorrentino’s sumptuous 10-part television drama The Young Pope rose to the challenge and inhabited the part to the manner born. He played a young American laid-back, smoking, cherry-coke drinking primate who turned out to have hardline views on the key issues for the Vatican. As to be expected from Sorrentino who directed Oscar-winning The Great Beauty, it was gloriously shot, awash with red and gold, sliding in and out of dream sequences, with a wittily quirky plot as well as some telling jabs at the Vatican.
Law, 29 Dec 1972 6am Lewisham, England, made his name with The Talented Mr Ripley and more recently The Grand Budapest Hotel and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. But he’s been in need of a splash and he will certainly be in line for awards for this, with a second series planned. He’s had a complicated love life, which at times overshadowed his acting career, with five children by three different relationships.
He’s a Sun Capricorn square Pluto on his Libra MC with Jupiter also in Capricorn in his 2nd. He has a handsome and charming Neptune, Venus, Mercury and Ascendant in Sagittarius opposition a 7th house Saturn; and a restless Moon Uranus in Libra. Not an easy chart for emotional relationships, with Moon Uranus, Venus Saturn; and such a strong Pluto.
His creative 5th and 7th Harmonics are strong, as is his actor’s 15H.
In 2016/17 he’s got tr Pluto conjunct his Jupiter which usually accompanies a great success and confidence and financial boost. Though he may also be taking it more quietly with tr Saturn dipping below his Ascendant.
Paolo Sorrentino, 31 May 1970 11.50pm Naples, Italy, has filmic Neptune in his 10th house of career on the focal point of a Yod to Mars in Gemini sextile Moon in Taurus. A Yod focal point Neptune yearns for calm and beauty and times of seclusion – Leonardo Da Vinci had one such as did Marlon Brando. His Gemini Sun is trine an 8th house Uranus, with Pluto also in the 8th; and Mars in Gemini in the entertainment 5th is square both Pluto and Uranus – so driven, risk-taking and volatile. It’s an Air Earth chart with no Fire, so he’d be drawn to a subject like The Young Pope which focussed on the struggles around faith – his missing element.
He also has strong creative harmonics – 5th and 7th – and leaving-a-legacy 17H.
Sorrentino’s Sun falls in Jude Law’s 7th so a good partnership; with PS’s Uranus conjunct JL’s Pluto MC – so a catalytic relationship that moved him in a new direction.