Dr. Seuss

Air has four of his ten planets, fire three, water two and a single one earth. Air arranges everything; the element that would hold a thing in place is down to one planet. The record says Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat using two hundred and thirty six words from a list of what six year olds could read, and Green Eggs and Ham on a bet that he could do it in fifty.

The Sun sits at twelve degrees of Pisces, the sign that holds no fixed edge of its own, while Mercury, Venus and Saturn sit inside thirteen degrees of Aquarius, which stands outside the arrangement it finds. The Moon answers from Virgo at twenty, settling a feeling by finding a task. Jupiter sits on the first degree of Aries and Uranus on the last of Sagittarius. For a writer whose record is two self imposed word limits, speech sharing a sign with the planet of limit is the placement to start from.

Uranus is in four of the six closest contacts here. Jupiter sits in mild friction with Saturn at seventeen hundredths of a degree, expansion against caution, and square Uranus at just under nine tenths; Saturn sits in that same friction with Uranus at seven tenths, order against revolt and frustration with rules that serve nobody; and the Sun sits a fifth of the circle from Uranus at just over a fifth. In a writer who took a rule nobody imposed and then beat it, the argument between scale, limit and revolt is the whole of the chart.

He died at La Jolla on 24 September 1991, at eighty seven. Jupiter is the older ruler of his Pisces Sun, and that day Saturn sat sixty degrees from that natal Jupiter at nine hundredths of a degree, the closest thing in the sky, while the Sun stood directly opposite it at just under nine tenths. Mars stood in easy contact with his natal Saturn at eleven hundredths. The Moon was full and ninety nine per cent lit, the phase that sees a thing clearly and usually through other people.