Diane Sawyer

Fire takes five of her ten planets, air three, and a single planet each in earth and water. The Moon, Mars and Pluto spread across eighteen degrees of Leo. The Sun sits on the first degree of Capricorn and Mars on the first of Leo and retrograde, so two planets sit at the very start of a sign. The record is four words: Sawyer is an American broadcaster and news anchor.

Two Mercury contacts sit within half a degree of each other and pull in opposite directions, which makes them the most useful thing in this chart. Mercury sits in mild friction with Jupiter at under four tenths of a degree, scale outrunning accuracy: exaggeration, promising more than was checked, and confident wrongness delivered well. Mercury sits sixty degrees from Neptune at under half a degree, intuitive understanding: picking things up without being told, and an ear for what somebody means rather than for what they actually said. Both of them belong to the same broadcaster, and they do not agree with each other.

In a broadcaster who spent a working life conducting interviews, those two are the hazard of the trade and the skill of it, arriving at almost the same orb. Confident wrongness delivered well is the thing live news punishes hardest. An ear for what somebody means rather than what they said is the whole of a good interview. A chart that offers both and cannot say which one won is being honest about its own limits, and a record giving two job titles and nothing else cannot settle it either.

Jupiter sits a fifth of a turn from Pluto at sixteen hundredths of a degree, the closest contact here, effective power: reform that succeeds, and the ability to recover from setbacks at scale. Jupiter also sits in hard contact with Saturn at under three fifths, expansion against caution: the swing between taking too much on and taking nothing on, and timing that is repeatedly slightly wrong. Venus sits a fifth of a turn from Neptune at a quarter of a degree, a real gift for beauty and colour. The Moon's sign is certain at nineteen degrees of Leo, which expects to be watched. Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto were the four retrograde planets. Jupiter came back to its Libra birth degree on 9 September 2017, at seventy one, and five laps precede it. Libra asks who else was in the room.