Tadej Pogačar

Earth takes five of his ten planets and water just one, with two each in fire and air. Earth works steadily at a thing and does not require the result to be immediate, which is the temperament a three week bicycle race is built to reward. Pogačar won the Tour de France at twenty one on his first attempt, and repeatedly since, which is a record almost nobody in the sport's history has matched that early.

The Sun sits on the twenty ninth degree of Virgo, the last of the sign, with Mercury and Venus in it as well. Virgo is the sign of the exact detail, the correction, and the work done properly whether or not anybody is watching, and professional cycling at the top is almost entirely that: watts, grams, sleep, repeated for years before a single mountain stage. The Moon answers from Libra, which weighs the options before choosing one.

Mercury stands at a hard angle to Uranus at a third of a degree, the tightest aspect in the chart, and also makes a quintile to Pluto at four fifths. The thinking faculty is in friction with the planet of sudden change and on skilful terms with the planet of force, which in a rider whose reputation is for attacking when nobody expects it describes the mechanism rather than the personality. Four of the ten were in retrograde motion. A rider who attacks on a climb where the rest of the race is still calculating has exactly that combination, and the Tour is won by it.

Jupiter closed a twelve year circuit on 5 April 2022, back where it began in Pisces, at twenty three. That is only the second lap his chart has run. Pisces dissolves an edge rather than holding one, and the planet of reach there asks how much was taken on rather than how far it travelled, which on a career this compressed is still an early question to be putting.