Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Fire takes four of his ten planets, air three, water two and a single one earth, with five of the ten mutable, and four of the ten were retrograde. Four planets sit in the opening three degrees of their signs: Mars on the second of Gemini, Saturn on the second of Capricorn, Jupiter on the third of Sagittarius and Mercury on the third of Leo. The record says Saint-Exupery flew mail routes over the Sahara and the Andes, wrote The Little Prince, and disappeared on a reconnaissance flight in 1944, and that his bracelet was found in the sea in 1998.

Mercury sits in easy contact with Jupiter at a third of a degree, which is learning that comes easily: breadth, genuine curiosity, and an ability to make complicated things sound simple. For the author of a children's book that adults have never stopped reading, that is the contact to keep, and this chart does not offer a better one.

Mars sits at an awkward angle to Saturn at under a fifth of a degree, drive meeting refusal, and directly opposite Jupiter at four fifths, action outrunning sense and running out of road at speed. A yod closes on Mercury, Mars and that Saturn, so speech and drive are locked to limit in a figure with no outlet. A reader holding the last sentence of the record will want those Mars contacts to account for it. They are the meanings of two angles in any chart, and a flight that did not come back is not in a birth chart.

He disappeared over the Mediterranean on 31 July 1944, at forty four, and the record carries that date as his death. Jupiter stood in easy contact with his natal Saturn at just over a fifth of a degree that day and square his natal Mars at under four tenths, working both ends of the pairing above, while Neptune sat sixty degrees from his natal Jupiter at just over a fifth and from his natal Mercury at over half. The Moon was at its first quarter and seventy nine per cent lit, the phase that acts decisively and often has to break something to do it.