Tony Hawk

His ten planets divide four in earth, with two apiece in fire, air and water. Earth holds a position and the rest is evenly spread. Hawk is an American skateboarder and the record says he landed the first 900 in competition, which is two and a half turns in the air and a thing nobody had completed before.

The Sun sits at twenty two degrees of Taurus and the Moon at twenty six of Scorpio, almost directly across the chart from each other, the sign that will not be moved facing the sign that commits completely. Mercury and Mars sit together in Gemini. For somebody whose trade was attempting the same trick for years until it came off, a Taurus Sun against a Scorpio Moon is the whole temperament: refusal to stop, and total commitment once the board leaves the ground.

Uranus and Neptune sit in easy contact at an orb of zero, exact to the arcminute, which is the closest pair this project has found in any chart. The planet that overturns the arrangement and the planet that dissolves its edges, in perfect agreement, is an apt thing to find under somebody who invented tricks. The Moon sits conjunct Neptune at under two fifths and in easy contact with Uranus at a third. Two T-squares both hold the Sun and Jupiter. For a skateboarder inventing tricks, two planets in exact agreement about overturning the arrangement is as close to a job description as a chart gets.

On 25 July 2015 Jupiter stood again on its Leo birth degree, at forty seven. Leo asks whether anybody saw it, and three circuits precede it. For a trick first landed in competition, in front of a crowd, that question has an unusually literal answer. An exact sextile between the two slowest visible planets, in the chart of somebody whose job was finding what had not been done yet, is the detail worth keeping from this one.