Devika Rani

Fire, earth and water take three of her ten planets each, which leaves a single one in air, and four of the ten are cardinal. This chart holds no closed figure of any kind. The record calls Rani an Indian actress often called the first lady of Indian cinema.

Two contacts sit inside fifteen hundredths of a degree. Venus sits in quiet contact with Pluto at twelve hundredths, which is depth in relating and loyalty that survives difficulty, and the Moon sits a fifth of a turn from Mars at thirteen hundredths, which is feelings that translate into action cleanly and somebody who deals with a problem rather than sitting in it. Both of her lights are certain, which makes the second usable, and for an actress the record places at the start of a national film industry the second is the more useful of the two.

Mercury sits in easy contact with Neptune at half a degree, imagination available at no cost, and the Moon at that same easy angle to the Neptune at seven tenths, so speech and feeling are both on comfortable terms with the planet of image. In a performer whose work was looked at before anybody in the country had much practice at looking, that pairing is worth keeping. The Sun sits on the tenth degree of Aries with Saturn on the second, and the Moon answers from Pisces at thirteen with Mercury at twelve. Jupiter alone was retrograde.

She died at Bengaluru on 9 March 1994, at eighty five. Neptune stood in easy contact with her natal Venus at one hundredth of a degree that day, which is about as exact as a transit gets, with Venus itself conjunct her natal Saturn at half. The Moon was balsamic and nine per cent lit, a phase that finishes things, lets them go, and is already looking past them.