On October 8, Netflix confirmed that Hannah Dodd and Masali Baduza will lead Bridgerton Season 5 as Francesca and Michaela, with the series returning in 2027 (Netflix hasn't given an exact date). Francesca's story will get a lot of attention between now and then. This piece is about something else: the chart of the actor who plays Francesca.
Francesca is fictional and has no birth date, so there's no "Francesca chart" here. There's also no chart for Baduza: public sources disagree on Baduza's birth date, and we won't pick one.
What we can read
Hannah Dodd was born on May 17, 1995, in Colchester, according to Wikidata, and Glass Magazine's 2024 interview independently gives the same town. We haven't verified a birth time, so we use one rule: only what holds across the whole local birth day. That rules out a rising sign and houses. It also rules out the Moon and Venus, because both changed sign during that day. What's left is still distinctive, and it's all symbolic: a way of reading planetary positions, not an explanation of anyone's talent or choices.
A Taurus Sun, squared by Mars in Leo
The tightest contact in the chart is a square between the Sun in Taurus and Mars in Leo, within a degree all day.
Taurus is read as patience and steadiness: trust in what can be built slowly, by repetition. Leo is read as warmth, confidence and the wish to be seen. A square is traditionally read as friction that produces effort, two needs that won't simply blend.
Put together, the symbol is easy to name: rehearsal against performance. The slow, private hours on one side, the public moment on the other, and a chart that holds both.
The Sun in trine to Neptune
The same Taurus Sun makes a close trine to Neptune in Capricorn. Neptune is the planet astrologers associate with imagination, empathy and stepping into other lives. Both bodies sit in earth signs, so this is read as grounded imagination: invention that likes a concrete form to live in.
Mercury in Gemini
Mercury is in Gemini, one of its own signs, read as a quick, curious mind that enjoys conversation. Beside the Taurus Sun, it's the chart's lighter, faster voice: the part associated with asking questions and talking things through.
The work, in Dodd's own words
What the chart can't do is tell us how anyone works. The public record can, a little:
- Training. Glass Magazine (August 2024) reports that Dodd has danced since age two and graduated from London Studio Centre in 2017. For Bridgerton, Dodd described approaching the piano as "hand choreography".
- Discipline. In the same interview, Dodd talks about working at something until you land it right, and about things not happening overnight.
- Preparation. In Netflix's Season 5 announcement, Dodd says the costume department does a lot of storytelling, and mentions a playlist built for Francesca.
- Partnership. Dodd describes regular check-ins with Baduza, asking what each of them needs to show up for each other as friends and as colleagues.
Set beside the chart, the Taurus–Leo square is a fitting lens for a dancer who talks about repetition before the moment lands, and the Sun–Neptune trine for someone who finds a character through costumes and music. That's a symbolic reading, not a cause: plenty of people with this square never dance, and plenty of actors have neither.
Three questions for your own craft
These are Lunara's suggestions, not Dodd's practices:
- Rehearsal or performance? Which do you enjoy more in something you're learning: the hours nobody sees, or the moment you show it? Notice which one you rush.
- What's your costume? Is there an object, a place or a song that helps you step into a role at work or in life?
- The check-in. Before your next shared project, try asking a collaborator: what do you need, and what do I need?
Try it with your own chart
Look up your own Sun and Mars signs. If they're in a square, a hard angle like this one, notice where that tension shows up for you between steady effort and the wish to be seen.
You can calculate your own birth chart for free; leave the time blank if you don't know it. Hannah Dodd's profile shows the same placements and can compare that chart with yours.
To see what a full written interpretation looks like, read the complete fictional sample reading. If you want one for your own chart, there's an optional, paid personal birth chart reading. It's an automated symbolic interpretation, not a consultation or a prediction, and the price for your country is shown before you decide.
Sources: Netflix Tudum, Bridgerton Season 5 announcement, October 8, 2026, for the leads, the 2027 return, costumes, the playlist and the check-ins; Glass Magazine interview, August 16, 2024, for training and the piano remark. Paraphrased, with two short quoted phrases; no photos or plot details. Birth date and place from Wikidata, the British actress's entry (a different Hannah Dodd, an Australian equestrian, is a separate person). Positions were calculated with Lunara's central Swiss Ephemeris path, sampled hourly plus 11:59 p.m. across the Colchester birth day. Written with AI assistance and edited by Lunara; the illustration is original.