Richard O'Brien

His ten planets divide three in earth, three in air, two in fire and two in water, an even spread with nothing missing and nothing in charge. O'Brien wrote The Rocky Horror Show and presented The Crystal Maze, which is a stage musical and a television game show, and very few records carry both.

The Sun sits on the fourth degree of Aries with Mercury back in Pisces and Venus in Aquarius. Aries starts the thing; Pisces keeps no edge of its own; Aquarius stands outside the arrangement and looks at it. For somebody who wrote a show about the collapse of a respectable evening and then presented an elaborate television puzzle, those three signs in that order are the whole working biography.

The Sun makes easy contact with Pluto at three fifths of a degree, identity on comfortable terms with concentrated force rather than braced against it, and Uranus makes the same easy contact with Neptune at under a degree, which puts the break and the dissolving on agreeable terms. The Moon sits in mild friction with Saturn at over two thirds. Neptune and Pluto were the pair facing backwards. Nothing here forms a named pattern. In a writer whose best known work set out to alarm people, a Sun at ease with force is not the aspect anybody would predict.

Uranus came back round to its Taurus birth degree on 19 May 2025, at eighty three, two months after Jupiter closed its own lap. A Uranus return takes about eighty four years, so it is the circuit most charts never complete, and the planet that overturns the arrangement finishing its only lap is a fitting marker for the man who wrote that particular show. Taurus asks what is still standing rather than how far a thing reached, and for a writer the thing still standing is the show itself rather than any account of how it did. An even chart with no named pattern in it and a Sun at ease with Pluto is about as unburdened a structure as this project finds, which is a strange thing to sit under a work that made its name by being alarming. His Moon in Cancer, in mild friction with Saturn, is the one placement here that counts anything, and it is the only part of the chart that was ever going to be cautious.