Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy made Glee, American Horror Story and Pose, three shows with nothing in common except that each one put people on network television who had not been there before.

He was born at Indianapolis on 9 November 1965 with the Sun in Scorpio, four planets in water, four in earth, and not one in air. Scorpio does nothing by halves. No air at all removes the faculty that steps back and moderates, which in a producer is the part that would have said a given idea was too much. A body of work repeatedly described as excessive comes out of a chart with nothing in it that measures.

Uranus sits conjunct Pluto two thirds of a degree apart, and the Sun makes easy contact with that Pluto under a degree. Uranus and Pluto meeting is a generational marker rather than a personal one, but having the Sun tied into it makes it personal: identity fused to the pair of planets that break things and rebuild them. For somebody whose working method is taking a conventional format and forcing something unconventional into it, that is the aspect doing the work.

Mercury squares Saturn by just over a degree, speech against a rule that will not move, and Venus is in hard contact with Neptune. Taste tangled with the planet of glamour and illusion, which accounts for a visual style across three very different series that is never understated and is not trying to be.

There are no aspect patterns in the chart at all, so none of this is held in a structure. The tensions stand alone and get discharged one at a time, which over a career looks like a series of separate large swings rather than a developing argument.

Three shows, three different audiences, no connecting thesis. On this chart that is not a lack of direction. It is what a Sun fused to Uranus and Pluto does when it is handed a production budget.