Hans Zimmer

Earth takes four of his ten planets, fire three, air two and a single one water, with five of the ten mutable. The Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto spread across twenty two degrees of Virgo, the sign built on doing something properly and being useful. The record calls Zimmer a German film composer of The Lion King, Gladiator, Inception and Dune, who played synthesisers in pop bands first, and gives Frankfurt as his birthplace.

The tightest contact in this chart is Neptune sixty degrees from Pluto at three hundredths of a degree, and it is worth almost nothing, because those two move so slowly that an entire generation shares it. Saying so matters more than printing it: after that pair, nothing here is closer than a degree and a third, which makes this one of the loosest charts in the set and an unusually quiet one for a working life this large.

What is left is worth having. Jupiter sits sixty degrees from Saturn at just over a degree and a third, which is growth that holds: sound judgement about risk, and a career that accumulates rather than spikes. In a record running from pop synthesisers to four named films, accumulation rather than a spike is exactly the shape. Saturn sits in easy contact with Uranus at a degree and a third as well, which is practical innovation. His Moon sits at twenty five degrees of Aries at noon and may by then have moved on into Taurus, so it is left out.

Jupiter came back to its Libra birth degree on 12 October 2016, at fifty nine, and four laps precede it. Libra asks who else was in the room, which for a composer whose work exists inside other people's films is the question his whole trade is built on. Four planets in Virgo with a generational pair as the tightest thing in the chart is the honest finding here: the detail is in the sign placements and not in the aspects.