Alfred Adler

His ten planets divide three in earth, three in air, two in fire and two in water, with six of the ten fixed. The Sun, Mercury and Mars fill seventeen degrees of Aquarius, the sign built on not being told. The record says Adler broke with Freud over the primacy of sex and built a psychology around the inferiority complex and social interest, and that he died on a lecture tour in Aberdeen.

Mars sits sixty degrees from Saturn at eight hundredths of a degree, the closest contact here and close enough to call exact. The reading is sustained effort: craftsmanship, training, and the rare ability to work at something for years. Building an entire psychology after walking away from the one he trained in is that contact with a career attached. The Sun stands at an awkward angle to Uranus at just over a quarter of a degree, which is the urge to break out arriving at the wrong moment, and in a record whose first fact is a break, that is the contact a reader reaches for second.

Venus sits sixty degrees from Jupiter at a third of a degree, ease and goodwill: social luck, and a genuine capacity for enjoyment. For a psychologist whose central idea was social interest that is a neater fit than it has any right to be, and it is a coincidence rather than a mechanism. His Moon sits on the fifth degree of Taurus at noon and this chart cannot rule out Aries, which costs this chart one of its two stelliums, so that group is not used.

He died at Aberdeen on 28 May 1937, at sixty seven. Four bodies stood inside a quarter of a degree of a natal planet that day: Mercury conjunct his natal Pluto at nine hundredths, Neptune in easy contact with the same Pluto at thirteen hundredths, Venus sixty degrees from his natal Mars at sixteen hundredths and in easy contact with his natal Saturn at a quarter. The Moon was full and ninety one per cent lit, a phase that sees a thing clearly and usually through other people.