Mike Epps

Three of his ten planets sit in fire signs, three in water, and two apiece in earth and air. Nothing is scarce. Epps is an American comedian and an actor, and the record gives those two trades and nothing beside them.

The Sun, Venus and Jupiter sit across thirteen degrees of Scorpio, three planets in the sign that commits and explains nothing, and the Moon sits on the first degree of Leo, or Cancer a few hours earlier. Scorpio withholds and Leo wants the room. For a comedian, that pairing describes the useful arrangement: the material is kept back until the moment it is delivered, and then it is delivered to everybody.

Three aspects here sit at three hundredths of a degree or closer, and Saturn is in all of them. Mars sits at an awkward angle to Saturn at an orb of zero, exact to the arcminute. Jupiter sits directly opposite that same Saturn at three hundredths, and Mars sits in easy contact with Jupiter at the same three hundredths. Drive, scale and limit locked into one exact arrangement is a remarkable thing to carry. Venus and Saturn were the two retrograde planets. In a comedian, drive, scale and limit locked in one exact arrangement is the apparatus timing is built from.

Jupiter stood again on its Scorpio birth degree on 10 September 2018, at forty seven, and three laps precede it. Scorpio asks what was never put in the act, and for a comedian that is the only question the record cannot reach. Pluto on the final degree of Virgo is the other detail to keep, and with Saturn at the centre of three exact aspects, this is a chart organised entirely around what it will and will not allow. His Moon on the first degree of Leo, in an easy skill of contact with that same Saturn, is the part of the chart that takes the restriction and makes a performance out of it rather than complaining about it.