Tony Romo

Fire and earth take three of his ten planets each, with two apiece in air and water, so nothing in this chart is scarce. Five of the ten were retrograde at his birth, which is half the chart facing backwards. The record says Romo went undrafted, then became a franchise quarterback, and then the best analyst in the booth.

The Sun sits on the second degree of Taurus, built on steadiness and on what has been accumulated rather than announced, with Mercury at eleven degrees of Aries behind it and Venus at seventeen of Gemini ahead. His Moon sits at twenty nine degrees of Cancer at noon and may have crossed into Leo. Jupiter sits on the first sixteen minutes of Virgo and was retrograde. For a record that moves from undrafted to starter to broadcaster, a Taurus Sun that simply keeps going is the placement all three parts rest on.

Saturn sits in quiet contact with Pluto at just under a degree, which reads as durable strength: rebuilding after loss, and authority that was genuinely earned rather than handed over. In a record that starts with going undrafted, that is the contact to keep. Mercury sits in hard contact with Mars at just over a degree and a quarter, thought and drive colliding, which is a useful fault in a commentator. A T-square holds Venus, Saturn and Neptune with no outlet.

Jupiter came back round to its Virgo birth degree on 12 August 2015, at thirty five, in reverse as it was at his birth, and two laps precede it. Virgo asks whether a thing would survive a second look, which for a player whose third act is explaining the game to other people is almost a literal description of the job. Five planets reversed, with limit quietly tied to force, is the thing to carry out of this chart.