Donald Tusk

Not one of the ten planets sits in a cardinal sign. Seven of the ten are fixed and three mutable, and earth takes four, fire three, air two and a single one water. The chart holds three T-squares: the Sun with Uranus and Neptune, Venus with Uranus and Neptune, and the Moon with Venus and Uranus. The record is six words: Tusk is a Polish prime minister and European Council president.

Three T-squares with no cardinal planet anywhere is the same arrangement that has turned up in this set once before, and it is worth describing rather than listing. A T-square is two planets in opposition with a third squaring both and no outlet either way, so three of them make a chart pressed from three directions, and a chart with nothing in a cardinal sign has no part whose business it is to start something and release the pressure. Uranus is in all three. The Moon's sign is certain at eight degrees of Aquarius, so none of the figures is lost.

Six words of record is not enough to test any of that against, and that has to be said before the readings rather than after them. The Moon lies at an awkward angle to Mars at under a fifth of a degree, need and drive colliding, and at the same angle to Jupiter at under four tenths, emotional overreach: promising more than can be delivered, and faith that outruns the evidence. Landed on a serving politician with no events at all in the record, those are two unflattering readings with nothing to weigh them against, and a chart cannot assess a government or the person running one.

The Sun sits in direct opposition to Neptune at over four fifths of a degree, the self obscured, and in hard contact with Uranus at under nine tenths, the urge to break out arriving at the wrong moment, and those are the two contacts making the first pair of T-squares. Mars sits square Jupiter at over half a degree, action outrunning sense. The Sun, Mercury and Venus fill seventeen degrees of Taurus, which accumulates rather than announces. Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were the four retrograde planets. Saturn came back to its Sagittarius birth degree on 24 October 2016, at fifty nine, which makes it a second Saturn return. Sagittarius measures a thing by the distance it got from where it started.