Amrish Puri

Water takes four of his ten planets, with two apiece in fire, earth and air, and five of the ten are cardinal against a single mutable. The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto fill twenty one degrees of Cancer, which builds an identity around belonging to and looking after something. The record calls Puri an Indian actor of Mr India, and also the villain in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Mercury sits conjunct Venus at nine hundredths of a degree, close enough to call exact, which is charm in communication: somebody easy to talk to who negotiates without it feeling like negotiation. That is a reading nobody would predict from a record whose two credits are both villains, and printing it as it stands is more use than reaching for the one contact that would have suited the parts better. Venus is retrograde, which is the only qualification the chart offers.

Four planets in Cancer, the sign that looks after what it belongs to, in an actor the record remembers for two antagonists, is the second contrast of the same kind. The Moon answers from Aquarius at nineteen and its sign is certain, handling a feeling by stepping back to examine it, and it sits directly opposite Jupiter at just over three quarters of a degree, emotional overreach. The Sun sits on the first degree of Cancer and Mars on the last of Taurus. Jupiter sits in quiet contact with Pluto at just over a degree, and Uranus square the same Pluto from a degree and three quarters out. Venus and Saturn were the two retrograde planets.

He died at Mumbai on 12 January 2005, at seventy two. Pluto stood in easy contact with his natal Uranus at just over a quarter of a degree that day, the closest thing in that sky. The Moon was new and five per cent lit, a phase that starts things without waiting to see the whole of them.