Tom Holland has begun tap rehearsals for Sony's untitled Fred Astaire biopic, directed by Paul King and targeting a January 2027 shoot, and the man he is becoming is not just the best dancer who ever appeared on screen but the performer who taught Hollywood that footwork could think out loud, that a tuxedo could be a vocabulary, that musicals could carry moral weight. Holland's Mercury sits at 20° Taurus and his Mars at 21° Taurus, a near-exact welding of the mind planet and the body planet in the sign of physical memory, and this is the placement of the performer whose body remembers choreography fifteen years after he last wore tap shoes. Transiting Jupiter is currently sextiling both natal points from Cancer, the 60° angle of opportunity that opens a window if you walk through it, and the planet of stage-and-screen visibility completes its late-June ingress to Leo just as the announcement begins to travel.
If you have ever returned to a craft you set down for a decade and felt your hands remember the work before your brain caught up, that is what these two planets locked together in an earth sign feel like from the inside. Holland is publicly modelling the experience of becoming someone you once almost were. The chart explains why a casting choice that reads as ambitious on paper might also be the most structurally natural job he has ever taken. His Sun is at 11° Gemini in the computed birth data, with Mercury and Mars near-adjacent in Taurus, calculated from Swiss Ephemeris. He was built to be a versatile communicator with a body that learns by doing. Becoming a tap dancer who acts is closer to his architecture than playing a teenager in Queens ever was.
Tom Holland: Chart Snapshot
- Sun
- Gemini, 11°
- Moon
- Sagittarius, 5°