Marc Márquez

Only one of his planets sits in fire, with three each in earth, air and water. Fire is the element that would charge at a thing without calculating first, and there is almost none of it, which is not what most people would predict for a rider whose whole reputation is built on taking corners nobody else would attempt.

The Sun sits on the twenty ninth degree of Aquarius, the last of the sign, with the Moon in Capricorn alongside Uranus and Neptune. Aquarius does the thing differently on principle; Capricorn keeps the account and meets the obligation. Márquez rides at an angle no textbook recommends, and a racer who does that, within a sport decided over a whole season rather than one afternoon, needs both of those and this chart gives him them in neighbouring signs.

The Sun stands at a hard angle to that Moon six hundredths of a degree short of exact, the tightest thing in it, so the public and private halves are permanently and very precisely out of step. Two T-squares run through the chart and both of them hold the Moon and Venus, which puts the same point under structural load twice over. Jupiter, the planet of how far a thing may go, is the only retrograde one.

Saturn came round to the Aquarius degree it had set out from on 26 December 2022, at twenty nine. The first Saturn return is the one that audits the opening thirty years, and for somebody who had been world champion several times over and had also spent long stretches not riding at all, the honest answer had two halves to it. Aquarius is the sign least likely to accept the conventional version of either. His Moon sits inside a tight Capricorn group with Uranus and Neptune, so the part of the chart doing the accounting is also the part most exposed to sudden change, which in motorcycle racing is not an abstraction.