Lorne Michaels

His ten planets divide three in fire, three in water, two in earth and two in air, an even spread with nothing scarce in it. Fire starts and water takes the temperature of the room, and between them they hold six of the ten. Michaels created Saturday Night Live and has run it for five decades, which is not a career in television so much as the maintenance of one institution for longer than most institutions last.

The Sun sits at twenty five degrees of Scorpio with Mars less than a degree away, identity fused to drive in the sign that does nothing by halves and tells nobody what it is doing. The Moon and Mercury answer from Sagittarius, which is the opposite instinct: outward, talkative, certain the next thing will be funnier. A producer who is private about a programme built entirely out of other people being seen has both of those running at once.

The Sun sits at a hard angle to Saturn at zero orb, exact to the arcminute, and Saturn is a fifteenth of a degree from a mild angle to Pluto, so the planet of structure is the busiest thing in the chart and it is under permanent load. Mercury makes easy contact with Pluto at half a degree and an awkward one with Saturn at a bit more. Nothing forms a yod or a T-square, so none of it is braced; it simply holds. Running one live programme every week for fifty years is what permanent structural load looks like when somebody survives it.

Jupiter came round to the Virgo degree it had set out from on 6 August 2016, at seventy one. Virgo inspects and corrects rather than expands, which is an odd sign for the planet of reach and an apt one for a man whose job each week is to decide what is not good enough yet. Six circuits lie behind that date, and the programme was already on air for the last five of them.