Kathy Griffin

Four of her planets sit in earth signs and four in water, with two in fire and not one in air. Air is the element that stands outside a situation and makes a remark about it, and its complete absence is a strange thing to find in a comedian. Griffin won two Emmys for a reality series about her own career and built an act out of being on the industry's bottom rung.

The Sun sits at twelve degrees of Scorpio with Mercury and Neptune in the sign as well, three planets in the one that knows exactly where the soft spot is and does not announce the intention. Comedy built on naming what everybody in the room has agreed not to say is Scorpio work rather than Gemini work, and it explains why the act was always closer to exposure than to wordplay.

Venus stands awkwardly against Mars at an eighth of a degree, the tightest contact here: what she values permanently out of step with what she does. In a performer whose material was her own professional standing, that misalignment is the subject rather than a difficulty in reaching it. Mercury, retrograde at her birth, is the only planet facing the other way.

Jupiter came back to where it began in Capricorn on 10 December 2019, at fifty nine, eleven months after Saturn closed its own lap. Capricorn prices any reach against what it took to get there, which is the harder of the two reckonings, and five circuits precede it. For an act built entirely on where she stood in a hierarchy, that is the measure the material already used. With no air at all, none of the act came from standing back and observing; it came from being inside the thing she was describing and refusing to pretend otherwise.