Andy Lau

Earth holds five of his ten planets, air three, and fire and water one each. Earth keeps the thing running and air arranges it; the elements that would force a thing or feel their way through it are down to a planet apiece. Lau acts and sings, and the record names him one of the Cantopop four heavenly kings.

The Sun, Mercury and Mars sit across twenty six degrees of Libra, with Mercury on the final twenty four minutes of the sign, and the Moon answers from Taurus. Libra attends to whoever is in the room and will not close a question down; Taurus holds its position for as long as it takes. A working life that has run in two trades at once, across decades, needs the Libra group for the public half and the Taurus Moon for the endurance.

The Moon sits directly opposite Neptune six hundredths of a degree from exact, as close as the arithmetic puts a pair, private feeling against the planet of image with the full width of the chart between them. In a performer who has been looked at for a very long time, that is the aspect doing the most work. Mars sits square Jupiter at half a degree. Saturn alone was retrograde at his birth.

Jupiter closed a full circuit on its Capricorn birth degree on 6 December 2020, at fifty nine, eleven months after Saturn had closed its own second lap. Capricorn asks what the keeping of a thing cost across the whole stretch, and four circuits come before it. For a career measured in longevity rather than in a single part, cost is the measure that recognises it. Five planets in earth, with one in fire, is the structure of somebody who outlasted the people who burned brighter. His Moon sits at nine degrees of Taurus, directly opposite Neptune, which keeps private feeling permanently across the table from the planet of image, and in a performer looked at for this long that is the standing condition of the job. Mercury on the last minutes of Libra is the other detail to keep.