Roy Keane

Roy Keane captained Manchester United, and has since been a manager and a broadcaster who is more famous for being unsparing than for either.

He was born in Cork on 10 August 1971 with the Sun directly opposite Mars, a fifth of a degree from the exact angle. That is the closest thing in his chart and it is the whole reading. The Sun is identity and Mars is aggression, and facing each other across a chart at that distance they describe a person whose self and whose confrontation are the same faculty: not a temper attached to a personality, but a personality made of it.

The Sun also makes a creative angle to Saturn one minute of arc from exact, which is the other remarkable aspect here. Quintiles are skill rather than struggle, and identity working effortlessly with the planet of discipline is the aspect of a natural captain: authority that does not have to be performed. A midfielder who organised a team by standing in the middle of it had that rather than learned it.

A single planet sits in water, the element that absorbs and forgives, against four in fire. That is the part of the reading that explains the broadcasting as much as the playing: there is almost nothing in this chart that softens a judgement once made.

Venus sits in hard contact with Pluto by three fifths of a degree, so what he values is pressed on by force, and Jupiter makes easy contact with Pluto too. There are no aspect patterns at all, so none of this is held in a structure; the oppositions simply stand, which in a playing career reads as a man who never found a position that absorbed them.

Jupiter completed a lap of his chart in October 2018, at forty seven, which is about when the second career became the better known one. A Sun opposite Mars does not mellow into punditry. It finds a format where saying the unwelcome thing is the job.