Paolo Sorrentino

Four of his planets sit in air signs and only one in fire, with three in earth and two in water. Air stands outside a situation and works out exactly what it consists of, which is a director's instrument before it is anybody else's. Sorrentino is an Italian director whose record names one film, a long and ornate picture about a man looking back at a life spent at parties.

The Sun sits at ten degrees of Gemini with Mars near the end of the same sign, so identity and drive occupy the sign that moves between registers and will not hold still. Mercury sits conjunct Saturn at under three fifths of a degree in Taurus, which is the opposite instinct entirely: speech welded to the planet of structure, in the sign that takes its time. The watching is quick and the saying is slow. A director watches quickly and then takes years over the saying, which is those two placements doing separate jobs.

The Sun stands at a hard angle to the Moon at a fifth of a degree, so what he is and what he needs are in constant low friction, and the Moon is at an awkward angle to Pluto at a third. Four of the ten planets were retrograde at his birth, including every one of the slow planets, which faces the whole structural end of the chart inward. For a film about a man looking back at decades of parties, a chart in permanent low friction with itself is the right instrument.

Jupiter rejoined its birth degree in Libra on 25 September 2017, at forty seven, in reverse as it was originally. Libra weighs one option against another and refuses to close either down, and the planet of reach there asks what was balanced rather than what was gained. Four circuits come before it, and the film the record names sits inside the fourth. A chart with one planet in fire and four in air was never going to make urgent films, and the record does not suggest he tried.