Luca Guadagnino

Fire holds four of his ten planets, air three, earth two and a single one water. Fire acts and expects to be watched; the element that would register what any of it cost is down to one planet. Guadagnino is an Italian director and the record names Call Me by Your Name.

The Sun sits at seventeen degrees of Leo with Venus further back in the sign at twelve, two planets in the sign the Sun itself rules, which gives identity here an unusually solid and unusually visible footing. Mercury sits in Virgo and Pluto at the end of it. His Moon sits on the sixth degree of Aries at noon and may have been in Pisces, so the private half could be either reacting at full volume or absorbing whatever is in the room. For a director, those two Moons describe two completely different sets, and the chart will not say which.

The two closest contacts in this chart both belong to the Sun. It sits a fifth of the circle from Saturn two hundredths of a degree from exact, which is the angle of a competence worked at rather than handed over, and directly opposite Mars at sixteen hundredths, drive and identity flatly arguing. Having structure that available and drive that opposed, both inside a fifth of a degree, is a remarkable pair of terms to work under. Mercury sits in quiet contact with Uranus at a third of a degree. Mars and Neptune were the two retrograde planets. For a director, structure that available with drive that opposed is a fair account of how a film actually gets finished.

Jupiter came back round to its Scorpio birth degree on 25 October 2018, at forty seven, and three laps precede it. Scorpio puts no weight on what was announced, which for a record naming one film out of a longer filmography is the more useful question. A Sun two hundredths of a degree from a craft angle to Saturn, in a director, is the contact to keep: the discipline was never in doubt, and the opposition to Mars is why it still cost something.