Jessica Pegula

Five of her planets sit in water signs and only one in fire, with two each in earth and air. Water takes the temperature of a situation before deciding anything, and the element that would simply attack is nearly absent. Pegula is a top five singles player who is also half of a leading doubles pair, which is two versions of the same sport with opposite demands: one entirely alone, the other entirely shared.

The Sun sits at six degrees of Pisces with Venus and Saturn alongside it, which sets three planets in the one that keeps no firm edge of its own. The Moon answers from Leo, which wants the court and the crowd. That pairing is the doubles player and the singles player in one chart: the half that reads a partner and adjusts, and the half that is perfectly happy to be the only person out there.

Venus makes easy contact with Jupiter at just over half a degree, taste and scale on uncomplicated terms, and Saturn sitting in Pisces alongside the Sun puts the planet of limits in the sign with no edges to enforce. For an athlete, that is discipline applied to something that keeps changing shape, which is a fair description of a tennis season. Mercury was the only retrograde planet.

Saturn worked its way back to its opening Pisces degree on 31 December 2023, at twenty nine. A first Saturn return asks what the preceding thirty years actually built, and for a player who reached the top of her sport comparatively late by its standards, the answer arrived rather closer to the question than it does for most. Pisces holds three of her planets, including the one doing the asking, so the audit was conducted in the sign least willing to draw a hard line under anything.