Samir Handanović’s birth chart

With the Sun in Cancer, Samir Handanović is likely to feel most alive when caring for people and places that matter to them, and purpose is tied to belonging somewhere. Feeling unneeded is the sore spot for this placement, and it can be taken personally. The whole day may go better after checking in on someone they love.

An Aquarius Moon processes daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and Samir is likely to need a degree of independence built into any close relationship. The temptation is to analyse a feeling instead of simply having it. Even after a good day with people, this Moon needs time alone to recover.

Mercury in Leo gives Samir a mind that thinks in confident, story-shaped terms and communicates with warmth and a bit of flair, drawing people in even when the subject is dry. Attachment to being right can make Samir more persuasive than accurate. A simple update, in their hands, can become something closer to a performance.

Born before about 12:30: Venus in Cancer

Venus in Cancer loves by nurturing, and for Samir that suggests valuing emotional safety over almost anything else in a relationship. Old hurts tend to linger here long after the person who caused them has changed. This is a Venus that feeds people, checks on people and quietly keeps score of who has shown up in return.

Born after about 12:30: Venus in Leo

Venus in Leo loves generously and openly, and values being someone's clear favourite above almost anything else on offer. For Samir, the tension this suggests is needing steady reassurance of still being adored. Their gestures tend to be grand and thoughtful, and it can sting when those go unnoticed.

In Samir's chart, Mars in Scorpio acts with focus and intensity, and its anger, when it surfaces, tends to be controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The risk with this Mars is holding on to a grievance well past its useful life. A calm exterior gives little warning before a sharp response.

Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and Samir would probably rather build slowly and properly than quickly. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. The authority this Jupiter brings is slow and hard-won, the kind people tend to trust more the longer they know someone.

Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for Samir letting go of either is unlikely to come easily. The doubt is bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given no reason for it. Comfort with vulnerability can come in the end, and the work it takes is seldom seen by others.

Uranus in Sagittarius is less about Samir than about the years around their birth. People of that age transform belief and access to knowledge, often through unprecedented exposure to other cultures and ideas. The personal trace is a restlessness with any single worldview presented as the only one.

Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Samir in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.

Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Samir belongs to, because Pluto moves so slowly. That generation transforms ideas of partnership, fairness and what people owe one another. Personally it can be an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.