Michael Richards

Four of his planets sit in water signs and only one in air, with three in fire and two in earth. Water registers everything in a room and the element that would stand outside and comment on it is nearly absent, which is worth noting in somebody whose comedy was almost entirely physical. Richards won three Emmys for one part on one sitcom.

The Moon, Mercury, Mars and Uranus group across twenty eight degrees of Cancer, four planets in the sign that keeps everything and takes it all personally, with Uranus in there as the one that breaks the arrangement. The Sun sits on the first degree of Leo alongside Venus and Pluto. Cancer is the thin skin and Leo is the willingness to be watched, and a performer built on entering a room badly needs both.

Venus stands at a hard angle to Neptune at an eighth of a degree, the tightest contact here, so what he values is permanently just out of step with the planet of image. Mars is at a hard angle to Pluto at a third, drive against force. Jupiter, alone, was retrograde at his birth, which leaves the planet of reach as the one thing in the chart facing the other way. In a comedian whose work was almost entirely physical, taste out of step with image and drive against force is the engine of a performance built on going wrong.

Jupiter came back to where it began in Capricorn on 3 December 2020, at seventy one. Capricorn sets any reach against what reaching cost, which is the stricter of the two accounts available, and five laps precede it. For a career in which one part did all of the work and collected all of the recognition, the question of what it cost is the one the record leaves open. Four planets in Cancer, including the one that breaks arrangements, is a lot of chart to hand somebody whose job was to come through a door wrong.