Abraham Lincoln

His birth time is recorded and rated, so the houses can be used here. Three of his ten planets sit in the first house, the part of a chart that deals with how somebody comes across before they have said anything: the Sun at twenty three degrees of Aquarius, with Mercury and Pluto in Pisces. Saturn and Neptune sit together in the tenth, which deals with standing in public, and the Moon sits alone in the twelfth. Water takes four of the ten and earth is down to one. Nothing was retrograde.

The record says Lincoln led the Union through the Civil War and ended slavery, and that he was shot at Ford's Theatre and died the following morning across the street.

Mercury sits in easy contact with Uranus at under three fifths of a degree, which is a mind that finds unexpected connections and is not troubled by reaching an unconventional conclusion. It also sits in hard contact with Mars at under a quarter, thought and drive colliding, which is the tongue used as a weapon whether or not it was meant that way. For a head of state who argued a war and a law at the same time, speech wired to both of those is the pairing to take from this chart. Venus sits in easy contact with Neptune at three quarters, compassionate love.

He died in Washington on 15 April 1865, at fifty six, and the hour is recorded, so the death chart is cast for twenty two minutes past seven in the morning. The transiting Sun stood directly opposite his natal Mars at four hundredths of a degree, the closest thing in that sky, with Saturn square his natal Moon at three fifths and Mars square his natal Venus at seven tenths. A reader will want that Sun to Mars opposition to mean something. It is where the Sun happened to be, a murder is a thing another person did, and no birth chart contains it. The Moon was disseminating and eighty three per cent lit.