Billy Porter

Of his ten planets, four sit in earth signs and four in air, with one each in fire and water. Earth builds and air arranges; the elements that would force the thing or be swept up in it are down to a planet apiece. Porter acts and sings, and the record names the Emmy he won for Pose.

The Sun sits on the final thirty one minutes of Virgo, so the boundary into Libra is right there, and Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus group inside ten degrees of Libra just beyond it. Venus sits on the penultimate degree of Leo. Virgo gets the detail exactly right; Libra attends to everybody in the room. A performer who sings as well as acts has the identity at the very end of the exacting sign and speech, scale and the break all gathered in the sociable one.

Mercury sits in mild friction with Venus at a sixth of a degree, the tightest contact here, so speech and taste never quite agree. Mercury also sits conjunct Jupiter at under nine tenths, which puts speech directly alongside the planet of scale. The Sun sits in easy contact with Venus at just over a quarter. Mercury and Saturn were the two retrograde planets. For a singer, speech next to scale with taste in low friction behind it is a working arrangement rather than a difficulty.

On 7 November 2016 Jupiter stood again on its Libra birth degree, at forty seven. Libra is only ever half of a pair, so the question it puts is who else the thing was done with, and three circuits come before it. For an actor whose award came for an ensemble series, that is the honest question. Two planets sitting within a degree of leaving their signs, in a chart with four in earth and four in air, is the detail worth keeping: everything here is on the edge of becoming something else.