Andrew Lloyd Webber

Six of his ten planets sit in fire signs, two in air, and one each in earth and water. Fire performs and expects to be watched, and the two elements that would ground any of it or register its cost are down to a planet apiece. Lloyd Webber composed Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, which the record names as the longest running show in Broadway history.

The Sun sits on the second degree of Aries while the Moon, Mars, Saturn and Pluto group inside twelve degrees of Leo. Aries begins things and Leo wants the room, which between them is about as direct a reading of a career in musical theatre as this project offers. Having the planet of limit inside that Leo group is the significant part, because it is the one planet there counting what a spectacle costs to mount.

Jupiter stands at a strained angle to Pluto at a quarter of a degree, scale pressed against concentrated force, and Venus sits square Saturn at under two fifths, taste braced against limit. The Sun stands at the same strained angle to that Saturn at two fifths. Four of the ten planets were retrograde at his birth, Mars and Saturn among them, which turns drive and discipline inward together. In a composer staging work at that scale, taste braced against limit is the aspect that decides what gets cut.

Jupiter closed a full circuit on its Sagittarius birth degree on 23 November 2019, at seventy one. Sagittarius counts how far a thing travelled from the room it was written in, and five circuits come before it, which few charts live to collect. For a record of four shows that went round the world, distance travelled is the measure it was built for. Six planets in fire, with the planet of limit sitting inside the performing group, is the structure of somebody who staged the enormous thing and costed it at the same time.