Liza Koshy

Liza Koshy began on Vine, a platform that gave everybody six seconds, and built a career out of the fact that six seconds was enough for her.

She was born in Houston on 31 March 1996 with the Sun, Mercury and Mars grouped together in Aries inside nine degrees. Aries goes first and asks afterwards, and having identity, speech and drive all inside it describes somebody whose instinct is to begin talking before deciding what the point is and to arrive at the point by momentum. Four planets in fire and four in earth, with a single one each in air and water, gives that momentum something to land on: this is not a scattered chart, it is a fast one with ballast.

The most exact thing in it is her Moon square Pluto, two minutes of arc apart. That is as close as an aspect comes to being exact. The Moon is where a person goes to feel safe and Pluto is pressure that does not let up, and at right angles with no distance between them it describes an emotional life that is permanently under load and does not get to put it down. For a performer whose public register is relentless brightness, that is the half nobody is watching.

There is also a yod across the Moon, Mars and Uranus, which is a tension with no comfortable resolution: feeling, drive and disruption locked together and needing somewhere to go. Six second comedy is a strangely exact outlet for it, and the move into longer work afterwards is what happens when the outlet stops being big enough.

On a chart with this much fire, that tight a Moon and almost nothing in air to cool either, the thing to watch is not whether she keeps working. It is whether the format she lands on is ever slow enough to let the Pluto half be visible, and six second comedy was never going to be it.