Aamir Khan

Six of his ten planets sit in mutable signs and only one is cardinal, which is a chart built to adapt rather than to start. The elements come out four in earth, four in water, two in fire and not one in air. The record names Khan an Indian actor and producer of Lagaan, Taare Zameen Par and Dangal, and says he is known for making roughly one film a year.

The Sun sits at twenty three degrees of Pisces with Venus at sixteen and Saturn at nine, three planets in the sign that holds no fixed edge of its own and has real difficulty keeping a line. Mars, Uranus and Pluto make a second group inside four and a half degrees of Virgo, which is a tight gathering, and all three were retrograde. The Moon answers from Leo at ten. For a producer the record measures by his rate of work, a Pisces group answered by a tight Virgo one is the division between the drift and the discipline.

Jupiter sits a fifth of a turn from Saturn at three fifths of a degree, which is the angle of growth that holds: sound judgement about risk, and a career that accumulates rather than spikes. For a record built on one film a year over decades, that is the contact the whole account rests on. Mercury sits in quiet contact with that same Saturn at just over a quarter, organisation and long concentration. Venus sits directly opposite Mars at three quarters and opposite Pluto at just over a degree and a third. Four of the ten planets were retrograde at his birth.

Jupiter came the whole way round to its Taurus starting point on 22 April 2024, at fifty nine, two months after Saturn had closed its own second lap, and four circuits precede it. Taurus counts what has actually been accumulated, which for a record of three named films and a working rate is the measure that recognises it. No air at all, in a chart with six mutable planets, describes somebody who adjusts to the material rather than arguing with it.