Aristotle Onassis

Earth takes five of his ten planets, water three, with one apiece in fire and air, and five of the ten sit in cardinal signs. Earth builds and cardinal starts; the elements that would charge at a thing or talk it over are down to a planet each. The record says Onassis fled Smyrna as a refugee at sixteen, built the largest private shipping fleet in the world, and married Jacqueline Kennedy five years after the assassination.

The Sun sits on the final degree of Capricorn with Venus at twenty three, Mercury at ten and Uranus on the sixth, four planets in the sign built on competence and on having actually done the thing. His Moon sits on the fourth degree of Sagittarius at noon, with the sign before it still possible, Scorpio, so the private half could be either needing room or admitting nothing. For a record that starts with a refugee at sixteen and ends with the largest fleet in the world, a Capricorn group of that size is the structure the whole account rests on.

Mars sits seventy two degrees from Uranus at under four tenths of a degree, the closest contact here, and the reading is quick reflexes: acting well in an emergency, and an instinct for the unconventional move. Nothing else in this chart comes inside a degree, so this is a loose birth with one sharp contact in it. The Sun sits in quiet contact with Saturn at just under a degree and three quarters, structure supporting the self. Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto were the three retrograde planets.

He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine on 15 March 1975, at sixty nine. Saturn rules his Capricorn Sun, and that day Uranus stood in easy contact with that natal Saturn at under two thirds of a degree while Saturn itself stood opposite his natal Mercury at just over one and a half. Pluto stood square his natal Neptune at under a fifth of a degree, the closest thing in that sky, and Jupiter sixty degrees from his natal Sun at a quarter. The Moon was new and six per cent lit, a phase that starts things without waiting to see the whole of them.