Achraf Hakimi

His chart puts three planets in fire signs, three in earth, three in water and a single one in air. Nothing is scarce except the element that stands back and talks the thing over. Hakimi is a Moroccan footballer, and the record gives his nationality and his trade and nothing else at all, which leaves the chart to do the describing.

The Sun sits at twelve degrees of Scorpio with Venus a degree and a half further on, and the Moon answers from Taurus directly across the chart. Scorpio commits without announcing it; Taurus holds its ground and will not be shifted. Those two facing each other, with taste sitting next to the identity in the committing sign, describes somebody who takes a position and then simply stays in it, which in a footballer is a useful thing to be.

Saturn sits square Neptune at under a third of a degree, the tightest contact here, limit braced against the planet that dissolves an edge. Saturn itself sits on the final degree of Aries and Neptune on the final half degree of Capricorn, so both ends of that aspect are about to change sign. Mars sits directly opposite Jupiter at a degree and a half. Jupiter and Saturn were the two retrograde planets at his birth. In a footballer, limit held against the planet that dissolves an edge is the tension between a plan and a game that will not follow one.

Jupiter came the whole way round to its Pisces starting point on 19 March 2022, at twenty three, in reverse as it was originally. Pisces does not separate one thing from the next, which makes the question how much of it stuck, and one circuit precedes it. For a career still early enough to have collected only one lap, that is the only measure available. Two planets on the last degrees of their signs, braced against each other, is the structure to take from a chart the record says almost nothing about.