Yann Tiersen

Air takes four of his ten planets, water three, earth two and a single one fire, and Neptune alone was retrograde. There are no closed figures in this chart at all. The record is one line: Tiersen is the French composer of the Amelie score.

This is one of the thinner charts in the set and the reason is the usual one. Two of its four closest contacts involve the Moon, which sits at twenty six degrees of Aquarius at noon and may by then have moved on into Pisces, so both are set aside: the Moon in easy contact with Jupiter at four tenths of a degree would otherwise have been the best thing here. What survives is a single contact inside a degree and three more beyond one.

Mars sits in hard contact with Neptune at just under a quarter of a degree, which is will without a clear direction: action undermined by uncertainty, and anger that goes underground rather than out. For a composer whose record is one film score, that is a reading the record neither confirms nor contradicts, and saying so is more use to a reader than dressing it up. Mars also sits a fifth of the circle from Pluto at just over a degree. The Sun sits on the second degree of Cancer with Mars at fourteen, and Saturn sits in hard contact with Uranus at a degree and a third.

Jupiter came back to its Libra birth degree on 21 September 2017, at forty seven, and three laps precede it. Libra asks who else was in the room, which for a composer whose best known work exists inside somebody else's film is the question the whole trade turns on. One planet in fire, no figures, and the two best contacts unusable is what this chart is, and that is a fact about the birth record rather than about the man.