Udit Narayan

Four of his ten planets sit in fire signs, three in water, two in earth and a single one in air. Fire moves first and water registers it afterwards; the element that would stand back and analyse the thing is nearly absent. Narayan is an Indian playback singer, which is the trade of supplying the voice that somebody else is seen to sing with, and the record names several national awards.

The Sun sits at eight degrees of Sagittarius with Mercury two degrees behind it, identity and speech together in the sign that heads out and expects a welcome. The Moon sits on the first half degree of Cancer, so Gemini cannot be ruled out without a birth hour. For a singer whose work is heard in films without his face attached to any of it, a Sun in the travelling sign and a Moon on a boundary is a fitting pair.

Venus sits in easy contact with Mars four hundredths of a degree from exact, which is as close as the arithmetic puts a pair, and both of them make the same easy contact with Jupiter inside two fifths of a degree. Taste, drive and scale in a three way agreement is a remarkably unobstructed arrangement. Mars sits square Uranus at two thirds. The two retrograde planets at his birth were Uranus and Pluto, both of them slow. For a singer serving somebody else's performance, taste and drive with nothing between them is the working equipment.

On 16 August 2015 Jupiter stood again on its Virgo birth degree, at fifty nine, nine months after Saturn had closed its own second lap. Virgo wants to know whether the thing was done well, not how much of it there was, and four circuits precede it. For a career the record counts in awards rather than in titles, that is the harder question and the right one. Four planets in fire with one in air describes somebody who sang rather than explained.