Bobby Lee

Earth holds five of his ten planets, air three and fire two, and not one sits in water. The element that registers how a thing feels before deciding is entirely missing from the chart of a comedian whose whole act is the uncomfortable admission. Lee worked on a sketch programme and now runs one of the most successful comedy podcasts in his country.

The Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus and Pluto group across twenty six degrees of Virgo, which is half the chart in the sign that notices the detail nobody wanted noticed and says so anyway. Virgo is usually the sign of discretion. Having identity, feeling, speech, taste and concentrated force all stationed there, in somebody whose trade is saying the thing out loud, is the chart's central joke.

Jupiter sits conjunct Neptune at under a fifth of a degree, scale fused to the planet of image and illusion, and Venus sits conjunct Pluto at under three fifths. Two T-squares both hold the Moon and Saturn, so private feeling is braced against limit twice over with no outlet. Nothing in his chart was moving backwards when he was born. For a comedian whose act is total disclosure, scale fused to illusion and feeling braced against limit is the machinery underneath the candour.

On 12 November 2018 Jupiter stood again on its Sagittarius birth degree, when he was forty seven. That is the planet of reach back in the sign it governs, which gives it the clearest run the arithmetic allows, and Sagittarius counts distance covered. Three circuits precede it, and the podcast that made him widely known came after the most recent of them. Five planets in one sign and nothing retrograde anywhere is an undivided chart, which in a comedian whose method is total disclosure is about as neat a fit as this project finds. His Moon sits early in Virgo at noon and may have been in Leo, so the private half is open between correcting and performing, and the act uses both.