Junji Itō

Fire claims four of his ten planets, with two apiece in earth, air and water. Fire performs and nothing else is in short supply. Itō draws horror manga and the record says he was a dental technician before that, which is two trades that both involve looking very closely at a body.

The Sun sits on the eighth degree of Leo with Mercury further along the sign, and the Moon answers from the start of Sagittarius, or Scorpio a few hours earlier. Leo performs and Sagittarius heads out and tells you. Venus sits on the final minute of Cancer. For an artist whose work is designed to be looked at and recoiled from, a Leo Sun and a Sagittarius Moon describe somebody doing it deliberately rather than privately. For an artist whose work is made to be looked at and recoiled from, those two signs describe doing it deliberately.

Jupiter stands at a strained angle to Uranus at under half a degree, the planet of scale pressed against the planet that overturns an arrangement, which is the tightest contact here. Nothing else in this chart comes inside a degree, and no named pattern forms anywhere in it, so this is an unusually loose birth. Saturn alone was retrograde. In an artist who draws the same unsettling idea in a hundred variations, a loose chart with one friction in it is the structure worth having. In an artist drawing the same unsettling idea in a hundred variations, one friction in a loose chart is the structure worth having.

Jupiter came back round to its Aries birth degree on 1 April 2023, at fifty nine, four months after Saturn had closed its own second lap, and four circuits precede it. Aries measures a thing from its first line, which in a manga artist is the literal unit of the work. For a record that names a trade and the trade before it, the first line is where both of them started. Four planets in fire, with the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Sagittarius, is the structure of somebody who makes the unsettling thing in public rather than keeping it to himself. A Venus on the final minute of Cancer is the detail to keep: taste at the very end of the sign that holds on to everything.