Albert Bandura

Not one of his ten planets sits in an air sign. Fire and water take four each and earth two. The element that would stand back from a thing and talk it over is absent from the chart of a psychologist, which is the first thing worth noticing about it. The record is one line: Bandura was a Canadian American psychologist of social learning.

This is one of the loosest charts in the set, and the gap is what makes it unusual rather than the single contact. Mars sits in easy contact with Pluto at eight hundredths of a degree, close enough to call exact, and then nothing else comes within a degree and a third. The reading of that one pairing is power under command: strategic effort, surviving what would stop most people, and strength that does not need to be demonstrated. For a researcher the record gives one subject and no events, that is the whole of what the aspects have to say.

The Sun sits at thirteen degrees of Sagittarius with Mercury at twenty six and retrograde, the sign that measures a thing by how far it got from where it started. Mars sits at fifteen degrees of Scorpio with Saturn at twenty, and Venus sits on the last degree of Capricorn. His Moon sits on the second degree of Leo at noon and may have been in Cancer, so it is left out. Mercury, Neptune and Pluto were the three retrograde planets, and this chart holds no closed figure of any kind. For a psychologist the record gives one subject and no events, a chart with one tight pairing and a long gap after it is the honest finding rather than a failure of looking.

He died at Stanford on 26 July 2021, at ninety five. Neptune stood sixty degrees from his natal Jupiter at seven hundredths of a degree that day, the closest thing in that sky, with Uranus at the same angle to his natal Pluto at just over a quarter and directly opposite his natal Mars at a third, which is the sky working both ends of his one tight pair. The Moon was full and ninety one per cent lit, the phase that sees a thing clearly and usually through other people.