Dara Singh

Water claims four of his ten planets, earth three, fire two and a single one air. Water registers everything; the element that would talk a thing over is down to one planet. The record says Singh was an Indian wrestler and an undefeated champion before he became an actor.

The Sun sits at twenty seven degrees of Scorpio with Mercury at eleven, both in the sign that commits totally and will not be known on anybody else's schedule. The Moon answers from Aquarius at twelve, handling a feeling by stepping back to examine it. Venus sits on the third degree of Capricorn. For a wrestler the record calls undefeated and who then changed trade entirely, a Scorpio Sun that gives nothing away is the placement to start from.

A grand trine closes between Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, which is a self contained figure that asks nothing of the rest of the chart, and Venus sits in easy contact with Jupiter at under a fifth of a degree inside it. That reads as ease and goodwill: social luck, and a real capacity for enjoyment. In somebody who moved from a wrestling hall onto a screen, a figure that needs nothing from the rest of the chart is a fair account of how the second career was possible. Saturn lies at an awkward angle to Pluto at half a degree. Four of the ten planets were retrograde.

He died in Mumbai on 12 July 2012, at eighty three. The Sun that day was in Cancer, water answering the water his own Sun sits in. Two transits ran straight into his grand trine: Neptune sixty degrees from his natal Jupiter at sixteen hundredths of a degree and from his natal Venus at a third. Pluto, which rules his Scorpio Sun, stood directly opposite his natal Mars at just under a degree, with Uranus square that same Mars at under four tenths. The Moon was at its last quarter and thirty nine per cent lit. That is the phase that rethinks the whole premise rather than the details.