Imran Khan

Imran Khan captained Pakistan to the 1992 World Cup and later became its prime minister. Two national public lives in one lifetime is rare, and both were the same job underneath: persuading a very large number of people to follow a plan.

He was born in Lahore on 5 October 1952 with four planets grouped in Libra inside nine degrees, the Sun with Mercury, Saturn and Neptune. Libra works itself out in relation to other people, and a group that size in it makes the chart almost entirely about the public. Saturn in there gives the charm a spine and a cost; Neptune gives it an image that is not quite the same thing as the man. He has five planets in cardinal signs and only one is mutable, so the chart initiates and does not bend afterwards, which is a captain's distribution rather than a diplomat's.

Mercury sits two minutes of arc from an awkward angle to Jupiter, the closest thing in the chart. Scale outrunning accuracy: the promise made at the size of the ambition rather than the size of the evidence, which is a hazard in sport and close to an occupational disease in politics. Mercury is also conjunct Neptune, so speech and image are fused, and a man whose words were received as a kind of destiny rather than as a programme is what that looks like from outside.

The hard aspect is Saturn square Uranus, just over a degree. Structure against upheaval, the authority that wants to reform the thing it is running. In a chart otherwise organised around being liked, that is the part that ends a career in confrontation rather than in retirement.

His Moon sits either at the end of Aries or the start of Taurus and the hour was never recorded, so this site does not choose between them. What is certain is that it makes a creative angle to Uranus, which is emotional life on good terms with the unexpected, and useful in a format where a match turns in an afternoon.

The cricket is settled and will stay settled. The politics is not, and the chart offers no opinion on it; what it describes is a man who was never going to be able to stop at the first career.