Andy Weir

Not one of his ten planets sits in a fixed sign. Mutable takes six and cardinal four, and air takes four, earth three, water two and a single one fire. The Sun, Venus and Saturn spread across fifteen degrees of Gemini, and Pluto sits on the last degree of Virgo. The record says Weir is an American novelist who self published The Martian a chapter at a time.

No fixed planets at all is the fact to take from this chart. Fixed is the mode that holds a position, and a chart with six mutable planets and four cardinal ones has nothing in it whose job is to stay put: it starts things and then revises them. His Moon sits on the fourth degree of Virgo at noon with Leo still possible, so it is left out, and that removes the two closest contacts in the chart, leaving this one unusually loose.

What remains begins at a degree and a sixth, and the useful one is further out still. Saturn sits in easy contact with Uranus at just over two degrees, and the reading is practical innovation: new ideas that are actually built, and an unusual patience for slow change. For a novelist the record describes as publishing a book one chapter at a time, an unusual patience for slow change is a good enough fit that the orb has to be said out loud. Two degrees is wide, and a reading found at two degrees is a reading that was looked for.

Jupiter sits in quiet contact with Neptune at just over a degree, generous imagination: vision, artistic scope, and an ability to inspire other people. The Sun sits conjunct Venus at a degree and a third, self-worth and taste fusing, which carries a standing clause about a vanity the person is usually unaware of, and Venus itself was retrograde on the twenty seventh degree of Gemini. Venus also sits in hard contact with Pluto at over two degrees, love and control. Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune were the four retrograde planets. Jupiter came back to its Capricorn birth degree on 22 December 2019, at forty seven, and three laps precede it.