Ali Zafar

Four of the ten sit in earth signs and only one in fire, along with three in water and two in air. Earth builds and keeps, and the element that would charge at a thing without weighing it is nearly absent. Zafar sings and acts, and works in both India and Pakistan, which is two trades across two countries whose industries have not always been easy to hold at once.

The Sun sits at twenty seven degrees of Taurus, the sign that holds what it has and does not let go, with the Moon in Cancer, which keeps everything it is given. Those are the two most retentive signs in the zodiac holding the public and private halves of the chart. For somebody whose working life has required him to maintain a position in two places, neither of which guarantees the other, that is the relevant temperament.

Mars, Jupiter and Saturn group across nineteen degrees of Virgo, which puts drive, scale and limit together in the sign of the exact detail and the correction. Mars sits at a hard angle to Pluto at under a sixth of a degree, the tightest aspect here. Four of the ten were in retrograde motion at his birth, including Saturn, so the restricting half of the chart faces inward. For a singer and actor working across two countries, drive meeting force at that distance is the pressure the arrangement applies.

Jupiter shut its lap in Virgo on 15 August 2015, at thirty five. Virgo inspects rather than expands, and what it asks of the planet of reach is whether the work holds up to examination rather than how far it went. Three circuits come before it, and a career conducted across a border is exactly the sort that gets examined rather than simply counted. Having Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all in the sign that inspects is a demanding place to keep the drive, and it suggests somebody who checks his own work before anybody else gets to.