Neymar

There is no fire at all in this chart: earth takes five of his ten planets, air three and water two. In the record of a forward and a national leading goalscorer, that absence is the first thing worth noticing and the chart does not explain it away. The record names Neymar at Santos, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain.

Two tight groups hold eight of the ten planets. Venus, Mars, Uranus and Neptune sit inside six and a half degrees of Capricorn, which is built on competence and on having actually done the thing, while the Sun, Mercury and Saturn sit inside six degrees of Aquarius, which is built on not being told. His Moon sits on the sixth degree of Pisces at noon and may have been in Aquarius. For a player whose record is three clubs and a national total, that division between quiet competence and refusing instruction is the structure to start from.

Mercury sits conjunct Saturn at just over a degree, which reads as disciplined thought: precision, a slow mind that arrives at better answers than quicker ones, and somebody who does not speak until he is sure. The Sun sits in quiet contact with Uranus at just over a quarter of a degree, independence without a fight, and in that same quiet contact with Neptune at just over a degree and a half. Venus sits in easy contact with Jupiter at just over a degree and a quarter. Jupiter alone was retrograde at his birth.

Saturn came back to its Aquarius birth degree on 13 December 2021, at twenty nine, a first return and the account coming due. Aquarius sits outside the ordinary arrangement, so the question it puts is which parts of the twenties were chosen rather than handed over, and for a footballer the record places at three clubs is a pointed version of it. Five planets in earth and none in fire, in a forward, is the fact to keep from this chart: whatever the attacking looked like, nothing in this birth is built on impulse.