Sidney Crosby

Seven of his ten planets sit in fire signs. That is among the most lopsided distributions in this set, with two in earth, one in water and not a single planet in air. Fire asserts and keeps asserting, and there is nothing to stand outside it and ask whether this is wise. Crosby is a Canadian ice hockey player who has won the Stanley Cup three times, a trophy decided by two months of attrition rather than a single afternoon.

Four of those fire planets group across nineteen degrees of Leo: the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars. Leo does its work where it can be seen and does not apologise for wanting the room. A player who was marked as the best in his sport before he had played a professional game, and then had to be that for twenty years in front of a country that treats the game as a public trust, needs a chart that can carry being looked at.

The Moon is the exception, alone in Capricorn, and it is the one placement in the chart that keeps score rather than blazing. The Sun makes easy contact with Saturn six hundredths of a degree from the exact angle, the narrowest orb here, which puts identity and discipline on effortless terms. In an athlete, that single aspect is worth more than the seven fire planets combined. Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were retrograde.

Jupiter came full circle to its Aries degree on 14 May 2023, at thirty five. Aries is the sign of whatever is begun, and the planet of reach returning there asks what has been started rather than what was finished. Three circuits sit behind that date, and the thing begun was a career that arrived fully formed and then had to be sustained for two decades, which is the harder half and the one the Capricorn Moon was always going to be responsible for.