Sugar Ray Leonard

Of his ten planets, three sit in air signs, three in water, and two apiece in fire and earth. Nothing is in short supply here, which means no single instinct runs the chart. The record says Leonard won titles in five weight classes, which is a career spent moving between divisions rather than holding one.

The Sun sits at twenty seven degrees of Taurus and the Moon on the third degree of Virgo, both earth signs, while Saturn sits on the final sixteen minutes of Scorpio and Neptune on the twenty eighth degree of Libra. Taurus holds its ground and Virgo corrects the detail. For a fighter who kept rebuilding himself for a different weight, the earth pair is the half that did the work and the three planets near sign boundaries are the half always about to change.

A T-square holds the Sun, Saturn and Pluto with no outlet, and the Sun sits square Pluto at under three fifths of a degree, identity braced directly against concentrated force. Venus stands at a strained angle to Mars at under a fifth, taste pressed against drive. Uranus sits square Neptune at just over two thirds. The three planets facing the other way at his birth were Mercury, Saturn and Neptune. In a boxer, identity braced against force is the pressure a career of title fights is conducted under.

Saturn arrived back on its Scorpio birth degree on 14 September 2015, at fifty nine, two months after Jupiter had closed its own lap. That is a second Saturn return, and Scorpio keeps its own accounts, so what the planet of consequence asks there is what the whole thing actually cost. For a boxer whose record is five divisions rather than one long reign, that is the harder question and the fair one. Jupiter had closed its own fifth lap two months earlier, which puts both reckonings in the same autumn. A chart with nothing scarce and a T-square running through identity, limit and force is the structure of a fighter who kept finding a new weight to be the right one for.