Yohji Yamamoto

Air takes five of his ten planets, with two apiece in fire and earth and a single one in water, and five of the ten are mutable. Mars, Saturn and Uranus fill eighteen degrees of Gemini, which holds two accounts of a thing without choosing between them. The record calls Yamamoto a Japanese designer known for black and asymmetry.

The Sun is on easy terms with both of the chart's outer extremes. It sits in easy contact with Uranus at a third of a degree, which is independence without a fight: being unusual and untroubled by it, and sudden opportunities that happen to suit. And it sits sixty degrees from Pluto at three fifths, power that is usable rather than overwhelming. For a designer whose record is two deliberate refusals, colour and symmetry, a Sun that is unusual without having to argue about it is the contact to keep.

Uranus sits sixty degrees from that same Pluto at just over a quarter of a degree, which is the tightest pairing here but moves slowly enough to belong to a cohort rather than to him. The Sun sits at nine degrees of Libra, which is worked out in relation to other people, with Neptune on the second degree of the same sign. The Moon answers from Scorpio at twenty two and its sign is certain, feeling everything at depth and showing almost none of it. Mercury and Uranus were the two retrograde planets. A designer who built a reputation out of black and asymmetry is somebody unusual who never had to make a case for it, and the record states the two refusals without explaining them.

Jupiter came back to its Leo birth degree on 2 October 2026, at eighty three, and six laps precede it. Leo expects to be looked at, and a return there asks what the attention was actually for, which for somebody who built a reputation out of what he left out is a pointed question. Five planets in air with one in water is the shape here: the arranging is effortless, and almost nothing in the chart registers what it cost.