Hasan Minhaj

Four planets of the ten sit in earth signs, three in air, two in water and a single one in fire. Earth builds and air arranges; the element that would go at a thing on instinct is nearly absent. Minhaj is an American comedian and the record names Patriot Act.

The Sun sits on the first degree of Libra with Mercury just beyond it, identity and speech together at the very start of the sign that weighs one position against another. The Moon sits on the final seven minutes of Capricorn, so Aquarius is a few hours away, and Neptune sits on the first degree of Capricorn. For a comedian whose programme worked through argument rather than observation, a Sun and Mercury sharing the opening of the weighing sign is the reading that fits.

Both the Sun and Mercury sit square Neptune inside two thirds of a degree, so identity and speech are each braced against the planet of illusion. In somebody whose trade was taking a claim apart in front of an audience, that pair of aspects is close to a job description. The Sun also makes easy contact with the Moon at four fifths. Jupiter alone was retrograde at his birth.

Jupiter closed a full circuit on its Aquarius birth degree on 20 January 2021, at thirty five, in reverse as it was originally. Aquarius asks how far outside the usual position a thing was argued from, and two circuits precede it. The programme the record names belongs to the most recent lap, and standing outside the usual position was the whole of its method. A Moon seven minutes from leaving Capricorn is the detail to keep, because the counting half of this chart was almost somewhere else entirely. Four planets in earth against one in fire describes somebody who assembled the material rather than improvised it, which is the less glamorous half of that trade and usually the one that survives.