Charles II

Earth takes four of his ten planets, air three, water two and a single one fire, with four fixed and four mutable. The element that charges at a thing is down to one planet, in a king the record calls the Merry Monarch. The same record says he was restored to the throne in 1660 after nine years of exile, founded the Royal Society, and had no legitimate children.

Jupiter sits directly opposite Uranus at a third of a degree, the closest contact here, and a T-square closes on that pair with the Sun, so the figure has no outlet and the Sun is the point it presses on. The reading of the opposition is sudden growth seen from the hard side: opportunity arriving unexpectedly, an appetite for reform, and a life that changes shape quickly when it changes at all. A monarch who spent nine years out of a country and then came back to it is a life that changed shape twice, and the record gives both dates.

The Sun sits on the eighth degree of Gemini with Mercury on the fourth, the sign that holds two accounts of a thing without choosing between them, and the Moon answers from Capricorn at eighteen, where a feeling asks what the thing cost before anything else. Both lights are certain. Saturn sits conjunct Neptune at just over a degree and a half. For a reign the record pairs with founding a scientific society, a Gemini Sun is the placement to start from.

He died in London on 6 February 1685, at fifty four. Pluto stood directly opposite his natal Moon at a tenth of a degree that day and Neptune in easy contact with its own natal place at the same orb. The Moon was new and nine per cent lit, the phase that starts things without waiting to see the whole of them.