Nandamuri Balakrishna

Four planets out of ten sit in fire signs, with two each in earth, air and water. Fire asserts before it consults, and a chart weighted that way belongs to somebody whose first instinct is to move. Balakrishna carries two public careers on the record, Telugu cinema and a seat in a legislative assembly, and both are jobs done in front of an audience that registers a verdict: one at the box office and one at a count of votes.

The Sun is at nineteen degrees of Gemini, the sign of two occupations held at once, with Venus beside it in the same sign. Gemini does not experience a second career as a contradiction. The Moon and Jupiter sit together on the last degree of Sagittarius at noon, a sixth of a degree apart, which is feeling fused with scale in the sign that believes what it is saying while it says it. Without a birth hour the Moon may have crossed into Capricorn later in the day, which would cool it considerably.

Two yods run through the chart and both share Saturn and Uranus, the planet that enforces a rule and the planet that breaks one, sitting at an awkward angle to each other within nine tenths of a degree. A yod does not resolve; it keeps pointing. For a man working inside a film industry and inside a legislature, two institutions that each run on procedure, having the rule and the break locked at an angle that never settles is the structural account of the pair of careers.

Jupiter came round to the Sagittarius degree it had set out from on 2 December 2019, when he was fifty nine, running backwards then as it had been at the start. That was the fifth time the planet has closed a circuit of his chart, since a lap takes twelve years. Jupiter asks about reach rather than merit, and a working life that extended from the screen into elected office has covered more ground in five laps than most charts manage in eight.