Alan Sugar

Not one of the ten planets sits in an earth sign. Fire takes four, with three each in air and water, and four of the ten are fixed. The chart holds a yod, made of Mercury, Neptune and Pluto. The record is four words long: Sugar is an English entrepreneur and broadcaster.

A record that short limits what an entry can honestly do, and the limit is worth stating at the top rather than disguising with a longer reading. There is a trade, a second trade, and no event, date or achievement named at all, so nothing here can be checked against anything. No earth, in a chart the record attaches to an entrepreneur, is the one count that would surprise a reader who expects the element of what gets made and counted to be the busiest thing in a chart like this. It is empty.

Mercury sits at an awkward angle to Neptune at a fifth of a degree, the closest contact here, and the reading is thinking that gets misty: confusion, being misunderstood or misunderstanding, and a tendency to believe the version of events that feels best. That is one leg of the yod, it is unflattering, and with a four word record there is nothing available to test it with, which is the only honest reason to print it. The Sun sits in easy contact with Saturn at under a degree, structure supporting the self: steady competence, people trusted with responsibility early, and ambition that does not need to announce itself, which for a trade built on being in charge is the more useful of the two.

Saturn sits in mild friction with Uranus at just over a degree, order against revolt: the fight between security and freedom, and frustration with rules that serve nobody. Mars stands at an awkward angle to that same Saturn at a degree and a half, drive meeting refusal: blocked energy, and effort that meets obstruction repeatedly until it becomes either resentment or real competence. The Sun sits on the third degree of Aries and Saturn on the second of Leo, both near the start of a sign, and Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were the four retrograde planets. The Moon sits on the twenty fifth degree of Aries at noon with Taurus still possible, so it is left out, and that costs the second closest contact in the chart. Jupiter came back to its Scorpio birth degree on 27 October 2018, at seventy one, and five laps precede it.