Albert Einstein

His birth time is recorded and rated, which most records in this set do not have, so the houses can be used here instead of left out. The record says so itself: the birth in Ulm is recorded to the half-hour. Fire and earth take four of his ten planets each, with a single one apiece in air and water, and Uranus alone was retrograde. The record calls Einstein the physicist who reshaped our picture of space, time and gravity.

Three planets sit in the tenth house, the part of a chart that deals with standing in public: the Sun on the twenty fourth degree of Pisces, with Mercury and Saturn on the third and fourth degrees of Aries. Mercury sits conjunct that Saturn at just over a degree, which is disciplined thought: precision, a serious and often slow mind that arrives at better answers than faster ones, and somebody who does not speak until they are sure. Having that pairing in the house of public standing, in a theoretical physicist, is the closest fit this chart offers.

Three more planets fill the eleventh house, Venus at seventeen degrees of Aries with Neptune and Pluto in Taurus. The Moon sits alone in the sixth at fourteen degrees of Sagittarius, needing room and quick to move past a bad mood, and both lights are certain. Beyond the Mercury to Saturn pairing this is a fairly loose chart: nothing sits inside half a degree, and the next closest are Mars in quiet contact with Jupiter at three fifths and the Sun in mild friction with Neptune at the same orb. A physicist the record credits with reshaping space, time and gravity gets a chart with one tight contact and a lot of quiet, which is worth stating rather than dressing up.

He died at Princeton on 18 April 1955, at seventy six, and the record gives the hour as well, so the death chart is cast for a quarter past one in the morning rather than for noon. The transiting Sun stood sixty degrees from his natal Jupiter at three hundredths of a degree, Neptune square his natal Mars at five hundredths, and Uranus in easy contact with his natal Sun at under a quarter. The Moon was at its last quarter and twenty three per cent lit, a phase that rethinks the whole premise rather than the details.