Miguel Cotto

Water holds four of his ten planets, air three, fire two and a single one earth. Water registers everything; the element that would hold a position is down to one planet. The record gives Cotto world titles at four weights and says he was the first Puerto Rican to manage it.

The Sun sits on the seventh degree of Scorpio with Mercury at seventeen and retrograde and Uranus at twenty five, three planets in the sign that commits completely and will not be known on anybody else's schedule. Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto spread across twenty two degrees of Libra, with Jupiter on the first degree of it and Venus on the last degree of Virgo just behind. His Moon stood at twenty four degrees of Cancer at noon, close enough to Leo that it may have crossed. For a boxer who moved up through four weight classes, a Scorpio group is the structure to start from.

Mars sits a fifth of a turn from Jupiter at twelve hundredths of a degree, the closest contact in the chart, and the reading is effort that pays: well timed action, and the useful ability to commit fully without agonising. In a record of titles at four different weights, that contact is the one to keep. The Sun sits in mild friction with Neptune at just under three fifths, the self obscured. Venus sits conjunct Jupiter at just over a degree and a third, across the sign boundary. Mercury alone was retrograde at his birth.

Jupiter came back round to its Libra birth degree on 11 September 2016, at thirty five, and two laps precede it. Libra asks who else was in the room, which for a fighter is a question with a very specific answer each time. Drive a tenth of a degree from scale, with one planet in earth and nothing to slow the climb, is what to take from this chart.