Action Bronson

Fire takes five of the ten planets and earth takes none, leaving three in water and two in air. Nothing here grounds the chart or slows anything down. Bronson was a professional chef before the records and has had a food programme since, which is a career that left one trade for another and then came back round to the first without ever quite abandoning either of them.

Five planets group in Sagittarius across nineteen degrees, the Sun with Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, which is half a chart in the sign that assumes the next thing will be more interesting than this one. Sagittarius does not experience changing trade as a loss. A second group of three sits in Scorpio, holding the Moon with Saturn and Pluto, so the private half is as concentrated as the public half is restless.

The Sun sits conjunct Uranus at just over half a degree, identity fused with the planet that will not do the expected thing, and Mercury sits conjunct Neptune at three quarters, which puts speech and image in the same position. Between them those two describe a performer whose material and whose persona are not separable. Not one of the ten planets was retrograde at his birth, so nothing in the chart is reviewing itself, which in a man who has never once pretended the kitchen and the records were separate projects is about right.

Jupiter completed a lap and stood again on its opening degree in Sagittarius on 8 October 2019, at thirty five. That is the planet of reach returning to its own sign, which is as unobstructed a return as the arithmetic offers, and what Sagittarius asks of it is range rather than depth. A chef who became a rapper and then went back to food on television has given that measure an unusually literal answer.