Bill Clinton

Eight of his ten planets sit in two signs. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune fill seventeen degrees of Libra, and the Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Pluto twenty four degrees of Leo. Air takes five, fire four and a single planet earth, with none at all in water, and nothing in this chart was retrograde. The record says Clinton was President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 and governor of Arkansas before that, and that he was born in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died.

The Moon is in three of the six closest contacts here, which is unusual, and all three are readings about early home. It sits at an awkward angle to Mars at fifteen hundredths of a degree, need and drive colliding, which carries a standing clause about a home where anger was either everywhere or forbidden. It stands at an awkward angle to Neptune at under three tenths, need becoming fog: idealising the wrong people, and a longing for something that cannot be named and therefore cannot be met. And it sits in quiet contact with Uranus at four tenths, comfortable with change. All three are claims about a childhood, and the record gives exactly one fact about his.

The record contains exactly one hard fact about that home, which is that his father died three months before he was born, and a reader will set it beside those three readings immediately. They do not belong together. Every one of them is a generic claim about early life, printed for any chart carrying the angle, and not one of them knows anything whatever about Arkansas in 1946. The president in that record is also the subject of a great deal this entry has no business reaching for, and a chart that offers idealising the wrong people to a reader who already has a verdict in mind is offering a mirror rather than a finding.

Mars sits conjunct Neptune at under half a degree inside the Libra group, diffuse energy: effort in service of an ideal, inspired action, and difficulty sustaining ordinary motivation without one. Jupiter sits a fifth of a turn from Pluto at under two thirds, effective power, which is reform that succeeds and an ability to recover from setbacks at scale. The Sun sits in mild friction with Venus at thirteen hundredths of a degree, the closest contact in the chart and the hardest angle those two can ever make, since Venus never separates far enough from the Sun to square it. The Moon's sign is certain at twenty two degrees of Taurus, which will tolerate a situation long past the point of usefulness because leaving is more disruptive than staying. None of it reaches the presidency in the record, which is the honest end of a chart this busy.