Michael Strahan

Fire has four of his ten planets, air three, water two and earth a single one. Earth is the element that holds a position and refuses to be moved, which is the whole job of a defensive end, and it is the one that is nearly absent. Strahan played the line and then became a television presenter, two trades with nothing in common except that both are done in front of an audience.

The Sun sits forty seven minutes of arc from the end of Scorpio, with Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune grouped across eighteen degrees of Sagittarius just beyond it. Scorpio keeps its own counsel; Sagittarius is already talking. Four planets stacked in the sign that goes out and tells the story, with the identity sitting just short of the boundary into it, is the plainest structural account the chart can give of the second career.

Mercury sits conjunct Venus at a third of a degree, speech and charm in the same place in the sign that talks, which is a presenter's equipment rather than a lineman's. Jupiter makes an easy skill of its contact with Pluto at just over a fifth, the tightest aspect here. Saturn, the one retrograde planet, sits directly opposite Neptune at seven tenths.

On 8 January 2019 Jupiter stood again on its Sagittarius birth degree, at forty seven. The planet of reach was back in the sign it governs, which is the least obstructed version of that lap, and Sagittarius counts ground covered rather than what was held. Three laps precede it, and the move from the field to the studio happened inside the most recent of them. With one planet in earth and four in fire, the chart puts the physical trade down as the less characteristic of the two, which is the opposite of what the record would suggest. His Moon in Capricorn is the only placement here that counts the cost, and it works alone.