Ekta Kapoor

Fire and air take four planets each here, with one in earth and one in water. Fire asserts and air works out what is actually going on; between them they hold eight of the ten, so this is a chart that moves and analyses and does very little else. Kapoor is an Indian producer who reshaped television drama in her country, which is the job of deciding what millions of people watch in the evening rather than appearing in any of it.

The Sun sits at sixteen degrees of Gemini and the Moon at fifteen degrees of Taurus, in neighbouring signs rather than at odds. Gemini runs several things at once and loses interest in any one of them; Taurus holds on and counts what it has. A producer with dozens of serials running simultaneously, each one engineered to keep going, needs exactly that pair: the appetite for volume and the refusal to let any of it stop.

Jupiter sits square Saturn at a fifth of a degree, the tightest aspect in the chart: the planet of expansion braced directly against the planet of limit, which for anybody whose trade is commissioning at scale against a budget is the argument itself rather than a metaphor for it. Four planets of the ten stood retrograde at her birth, Mercury among them, and nothing in the chart forms a yod or a T-square to hold any of it.

Jupiter stood on its Aries birth degree once more on 26 March 2023, at forty seven. Aries is the sign for the thing begun, and the planet of reach returning there asks what has been started rather than what was finished. For a producer whose output is counted in programmes launched rather than in any single one of them, that is a flattering way to be measured and an accurate one.