Dick Van Dyke

Water takes five of his ten planets, fire three, and earth and air one each. Water registers a thing before deciding anything about it, and the two elements that would build it or talk it over are down to a planet apiece. Van Dyke acts and dances, and the record says he was still performing in his late nineties.

The Moon, Mars and Saturn sit inside four degrees of Scorpio, one of the tightest groups in this set, while the Sun sits further along in Sagittarius. Scorpio commits completely and says nothing about it; Sagittarius heads out and tells you everything. A dancer needs the Scorpio group doing the work, because a physical routine is controlled risk rather than abandon, and the Sun in the outward sign is what makes it look easy.

Mars sits conjunct Saturn at two thirds of a degree, drive welded to the planet of limit, which in a dancer is the aspect that keeps a body inside what it can actually do. Jupiter stands at an awkward angle to Neptune five hundredths of a degree away from exact, about as close as two planets get. Saturn makes easy contact with Uranus at the same two thirds. Mercury, Neptune and Pluto were the three retrograde planets.

By 23 November 2020 Jupiter had returned to its Capricorn birth degree, at ninety four, and seven circuits precede it. Capricorn measures a thing by what it took to keep going, which is the only sensible question to put to a career of that length. He has also collected a Uranus return, the circuit most charts never complete, and a third Saturn return at eighty eight, which fewer still live to see. For a chart with one planet in earth, the endurance in it came from somewhere other than the elements.