Wayne Gretzky

A single one of his ten planets sits in fire, and it is a retrograde Uranus. Earth, air and water take three each. In the chart of somebody the record calls the leading scorer in the history of ice hockey by a distance no other player has approached, the element that charges at a thing is down to one planet and that planet faces backwards. Three of the ten were retrograde, and Gretzky was born in Brantford, Ontario.

Saturn sits in hard contact with Pluto at three hundredths of a degree, and the Moon stands at an awkward angle to Neptune at four hundredths. Two contacts that tight in one chart is unusual, and they pull opposite ways: the first is pressure against pressure, severe constraint and the enforced ending of something long lasting, and the second is need turning to fog, a longing for something that cannot be named and therefore cannot be met. In a record whose single fact is twenty seasons of outscoring everybody, the first of those is the one with teeth in it.

The Sun sits on the seventh degree of Aquarius with Mercury at twenty, the sign built on not being told, whose airy reputation disguises how immovable it is. Jupiter and Saturn sit together at twenty and twenty three degrees of Capricorn. The Moon answers from Gemini at eleven and its sign is certain here, so it can be used. Saturn also sits seventy two degrees from Neptune at under two thirds of a degree, which is imagination made durable, and a yod closes on Venus, Saturn and Uranus without resolving. A player with twenty seasons behind him had to be immovable about something, and Aquarius is where this chart puts it.

Jupiter came back to its Capricorn birth degree on 24 October 2020, at fifty nine, and four laps precede it. Capricorn asks what a thing cost to keep, which for a record of twenty seasons has a long answer. One planet in fire and that planet retrograde, in the career the record describes, is the fact worth keeping from this one: whatever drove it, this chart does not show it as appetite.