Derek Hough

Earth accounts for four of his ten planets, with two apiece in fire, air and water, and six of the ten sit in fixed signs. Earth builds and fixed holds. The record gives Hough six Dancing with the Stars wins, more than any other professional on it.

The Sun sits at twenty seven degrees of Taurus with Mercury on the sixth degree of the same sign, and his Moon sits on the fourth degree of Taurus at noon, though it may have been in Aries. Taurus is built on steadiness and on real physical enjoyment, with a stubbornness the person usually experiences as simply being right. For a dancer whose record is six wins in the same competition, a chart this fixed with a Taurus Sun in front of it is the plainest reading available.

Venus sits sixty degrees from Mars at a third of a degree, which reads as desire that moves easily: warmth, creative energy, and an uncomplicated relationship with wanting things. In a dancer that is the contact the whole trade runs on. Jupiter sits sixty degrees from Uranus at just over a third, an opening onto being in the right place when something shifts. Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were all retrograde at his birth, so the entire slow half of the chart faced backwards.

Jupiter closed a full circuit on its Aquarius birth degree on 28 February 2021, at thirty five, and two laps precede it. Aquarius takes its reading from whatever did not follow the usual pattern, which for a professional who kept winning the same competition is a pointed question. Six planets in fixed signs, in a record of the same contest won six times, is the fact to keep: this chart repeats rather than reinvents, and taste and drive on easy terms is what made the repetition watchable.