Steve Harvey

Steve Harvey is a comedian who became a television host, which is a harder move than it looks: the first job is about being the funniest person in the room and the second is about handing the room to somebody else.

He was born at Welch, in West Virginia, on 17 January 1957 with five of his ten planets in fire and the Sun at twenty seven degrees of Capricorn. Capricorn wants to have actually done the thing and is reputed to arrive at seriousness decades too early. With that much fire behind it, the seriousness has a performer attached, which is the combination a long career in front of a camera actually needs: the appetite to be looked at and the patience to wait to be asked.

The Sun, Mercury and Venus group together in Capricorn, and the Moon, Uranus and Pluto make a second group in Leo. Those two groups are close to opposite instructions. Capricorn is competence and the long view; Leo needs the room and takes criticism as an attack rather than as information. A man whose working life has been built on both an immense amount of grind and an immense amount of visible warmth is that split given somewhere to go, and daytime television is one of the few trades that pays for both at once.

Cardinal signs take five of his planets and mutable only one, so the chart initiates and does not bend afterwards. The Sun is in hard contact with Saturn, which is identity meeting a rule that does not move and usually arrives as a hard early stretch. What such an aspect gives back is that it makes starting again cheap, and a career that moved from stand-up to a game show to a talk show is mostly a sequence of starting again.

Four of the ten are retrograde, which gives the chart a private, inward quality that the public manner does not advertise. For a man whose entire trade is apparent openness, that is the part worth noticing.