John Lasseter

Two of his ten planets sit two arcminutes from a sign boundary: Venus two arcminutes from the end of Sagittarius, and Pluto two arcminutes into Virgo and retrograde. Fire takes four, earth three, air two and a single one water. The record says Lasseter is an American animator who directed Toy Story.

Those same two planets make the closest contact in the chart. Venus sits in easy contact with Pluto at six hundredths of a degree, and the reading is depth in relating: loyalty that survives difficulty, and an instinct for what somebody actually needs. So the tightest pairing here is made by the two planets that are each sitting on a threshold, which is a coincidence of arrangement rather than of meaning, and the sort of thing worth printing because it can be checked. In a director the record gives one film, it is also the only thing in this chart that can be checked without interpreting anything.

Jupiter sits in quiet contact with Neptune at seven tenths of a degree, generous imagination: vision, artistic scope, and an ability to inspire other people. For a director the record credits with one animated film, vision and artistic scope are the readings a reader will reach for first, and they are also about the vaguest pair of words in the whole vocabulary. They are printed here with the note that they would fit any director at all, which is the problem with them.

Venus also sits in hard contact with Jupiter at nearly two degrees, pleasure without a brake, and Jupiter in quiet contact with Pluto at a degree and three quarters, effective power. His Moon sits on the fifth degree of Gemini at noon with Taurus still possible, so it is left out, and that costs the second and third closest contacts in the chart. A single planet in water with four in fire is the balance: this chart moves first and registers the feeling afterwards. Mercury, Uranus and Pluto were the three retrograde planets. Jupiter came back to its Libra birth degree on 17 September 2016, at fifty nine, and four laps precede it.