Armin van Buuren

Fire and earth take three of his ten planets each, with two apiece in air and water, so nothing in this chart is scarce. The record calls van Buuren a Dutch trance DJ whose A State of Trance show has run for over a thousand episodes.

The Sun sits on the fourth degree of Capricorn with Mercury at twenty three of the same sign. Capricorn is built on competence and on having actually done the thing, with an ambition that does not need announcing, which for a record measured in a thousand episodes is the plainest reading available. His Moon sits on the first degree of Pisces at noon and this chart cannot rule out Aquarius, so the private half could be either absorbing the mood of a room or stepping back to examine it. Venus sits at nineteen degrees of Aquarius.

Mercury sits a fifth of the way round from Uranus five hundredths of a degree from exact, which is the closest pairing in the chart and the angle of inventiveness without friction: a mind that finds unexpected connections and is not troubled by unconventional conclusions. It also sits in easy contact with Jupiter at three quarters of a degree, learning that comes easily. For a show that has to find something new a thousand times, those two contacts are the equipment. Mars sits in mild friction with Uranus at half a degree and a fifth of a turn from Pluto at just under one. For a record measured in a thousand episodes, a mind that finds unexpected connections is the only equipment that would survive it.

Jupiter came back round to its Taurus birth degree on 21 April 2024, at forty seven, in reverse as it was at his birth, and three laps precede it. Taurus asks what has actually been accumulated, which for a thousand episodes of the same programme is a question with a very literal answer. A mind five hundredths of a degree from the planet of the unexpected, under a Capricorn Sun that simply keeps turning up, is the fact to take from this chart.