Eddie Cochran

Air takes four of his ten planets, earth three, fire two and a single one water. Five of the ten are fixed. The chart holds no closed figure of any kind. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus were the three retrograde planets. The record says Cochran wrote Summertime Blues and died at twenty one in a taxi crash in Wiltshire.

That record is two facts and one of them is his death, which leaves a chart very little to meet, and saying so is better than padding it. Mars sits in mild friction with Pluto at nine hundredths of a degree, the tightest usable contact here, force against force, glossed as power struggles and as situations where winning becomes more important than the thing being won. One song and a crash gives that nothing at all to work on, so it stays a standing reading written for anybody who carries the contact.

Mars also sits in easy contact with Uranus at three quarters of a degree, and the reading is quick reflexes, acting well in an emergency, and an instinct for the unconventional move. That one has to be named and then refused, because a taxi crash at speed is not an emergency anybody is given the chance to act well in. A reader with the facts sheet can see what the chart offered, so declining it out loud is better than leaving the tightest Mars contact silently out.

His Moon sits on the fifth degree of Aquarius at noon with Capricorn still possible, so it is left out, and two of the six closest contacts go with it. He died at Bath on 17 April 1960, at twenty one, after a crash the record places in Wiltshire. Two things in that sky are arithmetic. Uranus stood square its own birth place at a fifth of a degree, which is his age and nothing else, since Uranus takes about eighty four years to go round and a quarter of that is twenty one. And Venus stood opposite his natal Sun at an orb of zero, which is as exact as this project can print and means nothing whatever, because Venus crosses any given degree about once a year. The Moon was disseminating and sixty two per cent lit.