N. R. Narayana Murthy

Air takes five of his ten planets, fire four, earth a single one and water none at all. Air takes the measure of how a thing fits together, which is the organiser's faculty rather than the builder's. Murthy is an Indian engineer and the record says he founded Infosys.

Eight of the ten planets sit in just two signs. The Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Pluto group across twenty four degrees of Leo, and Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune across seventeen of Libra. That is an extraordinarily concentrated chart. Leo takes the room and expects to lead it; Libra will not act without the other party. A company built on agreements with other people needs both of those, and the chart gives them four planets each.

Mars sits conjunct Neptune at a tenth of a degree, drive fused to the planet of image, and Venus sits in easy contact with Pluto at six hundredths, as tight as the arithmetic puts a pair. Not one of his ten planets was retrograde at his birth, so nothing in this chart was quietly reconsidering anything. For somebody building a company from nothing, drive welded to image is the aspect that makes other people believe in it before it exists.

Jupiter came the whole way round to its Libra starting point on 8 September 2017, at seventy one. Libra is the sign of the second party to everything, so what it asks is what was agreed rather than what was taken, and five laps precede it, which few charts live to collect. For a founder whose record is one company rather than a succession of them, what was agreed is the honest measure. With no water at all and a single planet in earth, this is a chart organised entirely around arrangement. His Moon sits on the final half degree of Taurus at noon and may have crossed into Gemini, which leaves the private half open between holding what is there and moving on to the next thing. Not one planet retrograde, in a chart this concentrated, means nothing in it was ever quietly revising the plan.