Stephen Merchant

Water takes five of his ten planets and fire four, which leaves one in air and not one in earth. Water registers everything and fire moves on it; the element that would hold a position steady is missing from the chart entirely, and the element that would talk it over is down to a single planet. Merchant writes and acts, and the record names him the co-creator of The Office.

The Sun sits on the second degree of Sagittarius with Venus and Neptune behind it inside seven degrees, three planets in the sign that heads out and states its case. Mercury, Mars and Uranus make a second group across eighteen degrees of Scorpio, which commits and explains nothing. Having the announcing sign hold identity and taste while the withholding one holds speech, drive and the break is a clean division for somebody the record lists as a writer and an actor both.

Jupiter lies at an awkward angle to Pluto at thirteen hundredths of a degree, and Mars sits in easy contact with Saturn at eighteen hundredths, with Mercury doing the same at under half. Jupiter also sits square Neptune at a third. Saturn was the one retrograde planet at his birth, which turns it inward while drive and speech are both on comfortable terms with it. In a writer, effort and thinking both at ease with the planet of limit is the equipment that gets a thing finished rather than merely started.

His Moon sits on the very first minute of Aries at noon, so it may have been in Pisces for most of that day, and the private half of this chart is open between dissolving and reacting. Jupiter stood again on its Pisces birth degree on 7 February 2022, at forty seven, and three laps precede it. Pisces draws no line, so what it asks is what carried over from one thing into the next, which for a record naming a single co-creation is the question it cannot answer on its own. No earth at all, with five planets in water, is the fact to take from this chart: nothing in it plants itself, and a Moon sitting exactly on a boundary is of a piece with that.