Chinua Achebe

Water takes four of his ten planets, fire three, earth two and a single one air, with five of the ten cardinal. The chart holds no closed figure of any kind. Four of the ten were retrograde: Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto. The record says Things Fall Apart has sold around twenty million copies and is the book that made African literature visible in the West, and that Achebe also demolished Heart of Darkness in a famous lecture.

Jupiter sits conjunct Pluto at under four tenths of a degree, and the reading is concentrated ambition, glossed as a capacity for large undertakings, influence, and an appetite for control over the thing being built. The record's second fact is a lecture that took another novel apart, and the argument in it is about who controls the way a continent gets described. The reading's last clause is about control over a construction, and the record supplies one that is larger than a book.

A single planet in air is the inverse worth stating. Air is the element a reader of this site has been told means what gets said, compared and circulated, and the record is twenty million copies and a lecture that people still argue about. The count and the circulation point in opposite directions, and the count is a tally of sign positions while the circulation is a measured fact about readers. Where those disagree the record is the side with the evidence.

Jupiter also sits in mild friction with Neptune at under a quarter of a degree, faith without evidence, glossed as wishful thinking and as being taken in, which this record gives nothing at all to test. His Moon sits two degrees into Libra at noon with Virgo still possible, so it is left out, and two of the six closest contacts go with it along with two in the death sky. He died at Boston on 21 March 2013, at eighty two. Saturn stood square his natal Mars at under three tenths of a degree that day and Pluto square his natal Uranus at under half. The Moon was at its first quarter and sixty eight per cent lit.