Max Martin

Seven of his ten planets sit in mutable signs, with two cardinal and one fixed, and air is down to a single planet. Fire, earth and water take three each. The record calls Martin a Swedish producer with more number one songs than almost anyone.

The Sun, Moon and Mercury all sit in Pisces, both lights are certain there, and the sign holds no fixed edge of its own: it takes the shape of whatever it is put beside. Seven mutable planets say the same thing a second time. In a producer whose record is a quantity of other people's hits rather than a body of his own work, a chart made almost entirely of adaptation is a fair picture of the trade, and it is a description rather than a cause.

Only one contact here sits inside a degree, which makes this a loose chart. The Moon sits square Mars at under two thirds of a degree, need and drive colliding, which is irritability and reacting before understanding. After that nothing is closer than a degree and a quarter: the Sun in mild friction with Venus, Mercury at an awkward angle to Pluto, and the Moon sixty degrees from Venus. The Sun sits square Jupiter from just over a degree and two thirds, belief in its own scale meeting a limit, and Jupiter sits conjunct Neptune from two and a half degrees out, which is the widest contact worth printing for anybody. Mars, Jupiter and Neptune fill eighteen degrees of Sagittarius, and the four planets outside either group are Saturn at seventeen degrees of Taurus, Venus at twenty three of Capricorn, Uranus at thirteen of Libra and Pluto at twenty nine of Virgo. Uranus and Pluto were the two retrograde planets. A producer whose record is a count of other people's hits gets a chart with almost nothing tight in it, and that is the finding rather than a gap in it.

Jupiter came back to its Sagittarius birth degree on 3 December 2018, at forty seven, and three laps precede it. Sagittarius measures a thing by the distance it got from where it started, which for a record counting number one songs is a question with an actual number attached to it. Three planets in Pisces with seven of the ten mutable, in somebody whose work is making other people's records land, is the fact to keep from this chart.