Yash

Yash starred in the KGF films, which took a regional Indian industry to a national audience, and the record here holds little else about him.

He was born at Mysore on 8 January 1986 with four planets grouped in Capricorn: the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, inside fourteen degrees. Capricorn wants to have actually done the thing before claiming it, and having identity, speech, taste and image all inside it describes somebody whose appeal is built rather than natural. Three more planets group in Sagittarius with the Moon, Saturn and Uranus, so the emotional half sits in the sign of the larger horizon while the presented half sits in the sign of the long climb.

None of his ten planets is retrograde, which is less common than it sounds and gives the reading an unusually direct quality: nothing here works backwards or keeps its process hidden. Venus makes an easy angle to Mars three minutes of arc apart, and the closest thing in the chart, which is taste and drive in complete agreement. In a performer that is screen presence without visible effort. Jupiter and Uranus are almost as close, five minutes apart, which is scale arriving unexpectedly, and it is the aspect of a career that gets much larger without a gradual middle.

Mercury sits conjunct Neptune a quarter of a degree apart, so speech and image are fused: a man whose dialogue and whose myth are not separable, which is precisely the register the KGF films are built in.

On a chart this Capricorn, with every planet direct and Venus and Mars in exact agreement, the surprising thing is not the stardom. It is that it took until his thirties, and the four planets in the sign reputed to arrive late are the reason. A regional industry that took two decades to be noticed nationally is the same story told at the scale of an industry rather than a man.