Christopher Lee

Not one of his ten planets sits in an earth sign. Air takes five of the ten, water three and fire two. The Sun, Mercury and the Moon all sit in Gemini, with the Moon's sign certain at fourteen degrees. The record says Lee made more than two hundred films across seventy years, played Dracula and Saruman, served in special forces in the Second World War, and released a heavy metal album at ninety one.

The site's own reading of a Gemini Sun ends with a cost: that it usually has more beginnings behind it than finished work. Two hundred films is a very large body of finished work, and seventy years is how long the finishing went on, so the cost does not apply. The last fact in the record does apply, because a heavy metal album at ninety one is a beginning, and it arrived after almost everything else had been finished.

Three planets in Gemini, the sign built around knowing things and passing them on, in an actor whose trade is saying somebody else's words out loud, is a fit a reader will take at face value. The Moon sits sixty degrees from Neptune at over half a degree, empathy that costs nothing: kindness, imagination and an ease with art or music, and square Uranus at under two thirds, security and freedom fighting. Those two are the only tight contacts here that are not shared with everybody born in the same few years.

Jupiter sits square Pluto at four tenths of a degree, ambition and force colliding, which is a slow pair and a cohort reading. Uranus lies at an awkward angle to Neptune at seven hundredths, closer than anything else in the chart and belonging to a whole generation. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were the three retrograde planets. He died in London on 7 June 2015, at ninety three, in the city he was born in. Mercury stood conjunct his natal Sun at eight hundredths of a degree that day, which is the tightest contact in this entry and also the least remarkable one, because Mercury crosses any given degree at least once a year, so the orb measures precision rather than coincidence. The Moon was disseminating and seventy four per cent lit.