Bing Crosby

Air takes four of his ten planets, with two apiece in fire, earth and water, and nothing at all is missing from this chart. Six of the ten are mutable and only one is cardinal. Mercury, Venus and Pluto spread across seventeen degrees of Gemini. The record says White Christmas is still the best selling single ever released, and that Crosby financed the development of magnetic tape recording in America because he wanted to pre-record his radio show.

One cardinal planet against six mutable is the fact to take from this chart. Cardinal starts things and mutable adapts to them, and a chart weighted that far towards adapting belongs to somebody who adjusts rather than to somebody who begins. The record's second fact looks at first like the opposite, since paying for a new recording technology changed the way an entire industry worked. The stated motive is the part that fits: he wanted to pre-record his radio show. The structural consequence was a side effect of wanting an easier week.

Mercury sits in quiet contact with Neptune at just over a quarter of a degree, intuitive understanding, read as picking things up without being told and as an ear for what somebody means rather than for what they said. An ear, in a singer, is a coincidence of vocabulary and not a finding, so the honest version of this contact is its first clause only. The record gives it very little to work on in either case, because what it records is a sales figure and an investment.

Venus sits conjunct Pluto at fifteen hundredths of a degree, the tightest contact in the chart, total attraction, read as relationships that transform the person and as an all-or-nothing approach to love. That is a reading about private life and the record does not enter it, so it stays a standing reading. His Moon sits on the sixth degree of Leo at noon with Cancer still possible, so it is left out. Mars and Uranus were the two retrograde planets. He died in Madrid on 14 October 1977, at seventy four. The transiting Moon stood in direct opposition to his natal Sun at four tenths of a degree that day and Mercury in easy contact with his natal Pluto at under three fifths. The Moon was new and four per cent lit, a phase that starts things without waiting to see the whole of them.