Cameron Boyce

Cameron Boyce was an actor who died at twenty from epilepsy. That is what the record says, and it is the whole of what this page will say about it.

He was born in Los Angeles on 28 May 1999 with five of his ten planets in air and a single one in earth. Air is quickness, exchange and comparison; earth is the thing that holds still. A chart that airy with almost no ballast belongs to somebody fast and light, and in a child actor that is the quality that gets them cast: the ability to respond rather than to prepare.

The Sun and Mercury sit together in Gemini, the sign of quickness and the double meaning, and Mercury makes a quiet contact with Saturn five minutes of arc apart. Speech in easy agreement with the planet of discipline is an unusual thing to find in somebody that young: it reads as a performer who was already precise rather than merely natural.

The chart's one structure is a T-square across Venus, Mars and Jupiter, with Mars directly opposite Jupiter under half a degree. Drive against scale, with taste pulled at right angles. That configuration is appetite and ambition in direct conflict, and in a life of twenty years there was never time for it to be anything other than potential.

Four of the slow planets are retrograde.

He died in Los Angeles on 6 July 2019, on a crescent Moon 21% lit. Pluto stood opposite the Venus he was born with, a third of a degree from exact, and Mercury, the planet that ruled his Sun, faced his Neptune. Those are facts about a sky and they explain nothing. A chart describes a disposition and has no account to give of a death at twenty, and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling something.