Jon Snow

Five of his ten planets sit in air signs, three in water, two in fire and not one in earth. Air is the element of the account given and the question asked, which is the working material of a journalist, and the element that would plant itself in one position is missing altogether. Snow presented Channel 4 News for thirty two years and was a foreign correspondent before that.

The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune all sit in Libra, four planets across twenty one degrees of the sign that holds both sides of a question and will not close either down. The Moon answers from Pisces. For somebody whose trade was putting the other account to whoever was in front of him, having identity, speech, taste and the planet of image all stationed in the weighing sign is about as direct a reading as this project offers.

Mercury makes easy contact with Uranus at just over half a degree, speech on comfortable terms with the planet that refuses the expected arrangement, which in live broadcasting is the whole job rather than a quirk of it. Mars makes an easy skill of its contact with Neptune at an eighth. A yod holds the Moon, Venus and Pluto and does not resolve. Not a single planet was in retrograde motion on the day he was born.

By 16 October 2018 Jupiter had returned to its Scorpio birth degree, at seventy one. Scorpio deals in what did not get said, which is a pointed question to put to a man who read the news for thirty two years, and five circuits precede it. He was still presenting the programme the record names when that return came round. Four planets in Libra and none in earth describes somebody built to hold a question open rather than to settle it, and nothing in the chart was facing backwards while he did it.