Bob Weir

Four of his ten planets sit in water signs, three in fire, three in air and not one in earth. Earth is the element that holds steady and does not move, and Weir, whom the record calls the rhythm guitar underneath fifty years of improvisation, has none of it at all. That is the central fact here, and it is the opposite of what the job description suggests.

The Moon, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter group across twenty four degrees of Scorpio, four planets in the sign that commits without announcing it, while Mars, Saturn and Pluto sit in Leo. The Sun answers from Libra. Scorpio holds the thing and Leo performs it, and in a band whose whole method was playing without a plan, the Scorpio group is the half that kept the shape while everybody else moved.

Nothing in this chart sits inside a degree and a half of exact, which makes it one of the loosest births in this set. Venus makes an easy skill of its contact with Saturn at just under a degree and a half, the closest thing here, and the Sun sits in easy contact with the Moon at a little over. Uranus alone was retrograde. For a player whose role was to be the stable element in an unstable form, a chart with no tight aspect anywhere and no earth at all is a reading worth sitting with.

He died at Mill Valley on 10 January 2026, at seventy eight. Venus rules his Libra Sun, and that day it stood square that Sun at just over a degree while Pluto stood square his natal Venus at the same. The Moon sat directly on his natal Sun within a twelfth of a degree, which is as close as that transit comes. The Moon itself was at its last quarter and forty eight per cent lit, which is the phase that rethinks the whole premise rather than the details, and the Sun had reached Capricorn, earth, the element his chart never had.