Dean Smith

Seven of his ten planets sit in cardinal signs, with one fixed and two mutable, and water takes five of them against a single one apiece in fire and air. The Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto fill seventeen degrees of Cancer, the sign that looks after what it belongs to. The record says Smith took two national titles at North Carolina and was the coach who recruited Michael Jordan.

Four planets in Cancer, in a coach the record defines by an institution and by somebody else he brought into it, is the placement to start from. Cancer counts what is still being held, and a coaching record is a list of people who were held long enough to become good at something. The Moon sits conjunct Pluto at just over a degree and a quarter inside that group, feeling at full depth and unusual perceptiveness about what people are hiding, which in a recruiter is a trade skill.

The Sun sits in mild friction with Venus at two hundredths of a degree, the closest contact here and close enough to call exact, which is taste slightly out of step with self worth. Saturn sits in hard contact with Neptune at just under nine tenths, pressure against something that will not hold a shape. Four of the ten planets were retrograde, Mars and Pluto among them. This chart holds no closed figure of any kind. A coach the record defines by an institution and by one player he brought into it gets a chart with no closed figure at all, and the four planets in Cancer doing the holding instead.

He died at Chapel Hill on 7 February 2015, at eighty three, on his own Uranus return: the transiting Uranus stood conjunct its natal place at under a fifth of a degree. That return comes once in a life or not at all, and it asks whether there is anything left to be besides who the arrangements have made you, which for somebody who spent a working life inside one institution is a pointed question to arrive on. The Moon was full and eighty eight per cent lit.