Zlatan Ibrahimović

Zlatan Ibrahimović is remembered for spectacular goals and for a self belief that became a running joke he was entirely in on. His chart holds an aspect at zero orb, which is rare enough to lead with, and of all the things it could have been it is the one about how a footballer values himself.

He was born at Malmö on 3 October 1981 with Venus and Pluto at an exact minor aspect, zero minutes of arc apart. An aspect at zero orb is rare in any chart. Venus is taste and the presentation of it; Pluto is raw power. At zero distance they stop being two things: a man for whom self-regard is not vanity but infrastructure, and for whom the presentation and the force behind it cannot be separated even in principle.

Four planets group in Libra with the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, and not one of his ten planets is in earth. Libra is the sign of other people and of how a thing is received, so the chart is organised almost entirely around an audience, and with no earth there is nothing in it that steadies or doubts. Saturn sits in hard contact with Uranus two minutes of arc from exact, the second-closest aspect he has: structure against disruption, the rule and the thing that breaks it, locked at right angles. A career of long contracts at large clubs punctuated by departures nobody saw coming is that aspect with a transfer window attached. Nine clubs in four countries is not restlessness on this chart, it is Saturn and Uranus taking turns.

None of his ten planets is retrograde. Everything in this chart runs forward and nothing keeps its working private, which for a player famous for announcing exactly what he was about to do is the plainest reading available.

On a chart with no earth, four planets in the sign of being seen, and Venus welded to Pluto at zero degrees, the self belief is not a performance and never was. It is the structural condition of the whole arrangement.