"Weird Al" Yankovic

Water has four of his ten planets and air just one, with three in earth and two in fire. Air is the element that stands outside a thing and takes it apart, which you would expect to find in quantity in somebody whose entire trade is dismantling other people's records, and it is the one element almost missing here. Yankovic has built five decades on parody.

The Sun sits on the twenty ninth degree of Libra, thirty six minutes from Scorpio, so the sign cannot be settled without a birth hour. Libra is the sign that will not close a question while the other side is unsaid; Scorpio is the one that knows exactly where the soft spot is. Parody needs both: the affection that keeps it from being cruel, and the accuracy that makes it land. The chart will not say which he is. A parody that lands has to be accurate about the record it is dismantling and fond of it at the same time.

Mercury, Mars and Neptune group across nineteen degrees of Scorpio, and Mercury sits square Uranus at half a degree. Speech in the sign that finds the weak point, braced against the planet that breaks the expected pattern, is as close to a technical description of the job as a chart is likely to produce. Not one of the ten planets was retrograde at his birth, so nothing here doubles back.

Jupiter stood on its Sagittarius birth degree once more on 24 November 2018, at fifty nine. That is the planet of reach back in the sign it governs, the clearest run the arithmetic allows it, and Sagittarius counts distance covered rather than depth. Five circuits come before it, and a career that has outlasted most of the records it was built on is what that measure finds. The joke in that, which the chart cannot have intended, is that a parodist is measured by reach on exactly the terms his subjects are.