Dwyane Wade

Dwyane Wade won three NBA titles with Miami as a guard, which is the position that has to make decisions faster than anybody else on the floor.

He was born in Chicago on 17 January 1982 with five of his ten planets in air and a single one in earth. Air is the element that reads a situation from outside it rather than from inside. That is an unusual distribution for an athlete and a very logical one for a guard: the job is reading the whole floor rather than imposing on it. Mars, Saturn and Pluto group together in Libra, the sign of other people and of balance, so drive, discipline and force all sit in the sign that thinks about the other side.

His Sun is on the twenty seventh degree of Capricorn and squares Pluto by two fifths of a degree, the tightest aspect in the chart. Identity against concentrated pressure: a self that is tested rather than confirmed, and that does not get the easy version of anything. In a career defined by playing through injuries that would have ended most, that aspect is not decoration.

Venus is retrograde and makes easy contact with Uranus a fifth of a degree off, which is taste comfortable with the unexpected, and Mercury makes a creative angle to the same planet. Speech and the unconventional on good terms: the chart of somebody who became articulate about the sport after leaving it.

His Moon is at the end of Libra or the start of Scorpio, undetermined, which leaves the emotional half open between accommodation and depth. Nothing in the record of a guard famous for both settles it.

Jupiter arrived back at its starting degree in November 2017, at thirty five, two years before he stopped playing. On a chart this airy with the Sun under that much pressure, the useful thing a year of expansion offers is a way out rather than more of the same.