Pete Davidson

Five of his planets sit in water signs and only one each in fire and air, with three in earth. Water takes on whatever is nearest it and holds no boundary of its own, and there is almost nothing here that pushes back or steps outside to assess. Davidson is an American comedian whose record names one long running sketch programme, a format that requires somebody to be funny live, weekly, in front of a studio audience.

Five planets group across twenty four degrees of Scorpio: the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Pluto. That is half the chart in the sign that gives nothing away by instinct and does nothing by halves. For a comedian whose material is largely his own circumstances, said out loud before anybody else can say it first, having identity, speech, taste, scale and force all in the most withholding sign is the contradiction worth sitting with.

The Sun sits square Saturn at two fifths of a degree, identity against limit, and conjunct Pluto within a degree, so the heavy end of the chart is attached directly to who he is. Mercury makes quintiles to both Neptune and Uranus, at a quarter and half a degree, which is easy skill in handling image and disruption through what he says. Not one planet was retrograde. In a comedian whose material is his own circumstances, having the heavy planets attached directly to the identity is the mechanism rather than a complication.

Saturn came round to the Aquarius degree it had set out from on 15 January 2023, at twenty nine. The first return of Saturn totals up what three decades have actually left standing, and Aquarius replies in terms of the route rather than the mileage. For somebody who joined a national programme at twenty and stayed eight years, there was a good deal standing by then. His Moon sits at the start of Capricorn at noon and may have been in Sagittarius, which leaves the private half open between keeping account and moving on.