Dan Carter

Not one of his ten planets sits in an earth sign. Air takes five, water three and fire two, with four of the ten cardinal. Mars, Saturn and Pluto fill eight degrees of Libra, all three of them retrograde. The record calls Carter a New Zealand fly half, the leading points scorer in the history of international rugby, and a double World Cup winner.

This chart holds a grand trine, and the three planets in it are the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter, which is an unusually comfortable set to find in one. A grand trine is a closed figure of easy contacts that asks nothing of the rest of the chart, and having both lights and the planet of scale inside it puts identity, need and expansion in support of each other with no friction anywhere. The Moon's sign is certain at eleven degrees of Cancer, so the figure stands. For a record that is three superlatives about one player, a closed figure holding both lights is the structure to describe before any single contact inside it.

Mercury sits in easy contact with Mars at under a quarter of a degree, the closest usable contact here, and the reading is mental energy that goes somewhere: thinking clearly under pressure, and finishing what gets started. A fly half is the position on the field whose job is deciding things while being run at, and the record adds the leading points total in the history of the game, which is a kicker's number and about as pure a test of composure as a sport has. This is one of the closer fits in the project, and the reading was still written for anybody at all.

The Moon sits in easy contact with Jupiter at half a degree inside that grand trine, optimism as a resting state: resilience, and somebody people feel better around. Mars sits in mild friction with Uranus at a degree and a third, action without warning, and Mercury a fifth of a turn from the same Uranus at the same orb, inventiveness without friction. No earth at all, in a sportsman, is the count a reader will notice, and earth in a chart is a temperament rather than a physique. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto were the four retrograde planets. Jupiter came back to its Scorpio birth degree on 26 November 2017, at thirty five, and two laps precede it.