Edward Snowden

Five of the ten planets are in air signs and four in fire, with one in water and not one in earth. Air examines a situation and reports on it; fire acts; nothing in the chart grounds either, and earth is the element that would have counselled waiting. The record calls Snowden an American contractor who disclosed mass surveillance and who lives in Russia, which is a life with a clear line drawn through the middle of it.

The Sun sits eighteen minutes of arc from the end of Gemini, so Cancer cannot be ruled out without a birth hour, and Mercury and Mars are in Gemini with it. Three planets in the sign of information carried from one place to another is a plain fact about the chart rather than a judgement about the man, and whatever else the record holds, the material in question was information.

Saturn sits in easy contact with Neptune at zero orb, exact to the limit of what the arithmetic reports, which is structure and the thing that cannot be clearly seen in complete agreement. Saturn also sits conjunct Pluto within a degree, so limit and concentrated power occupy the same ground. Five of the ten stood retrograde at his birth, which is half the chart facing backwards from the start. For a contractor who disclosed what he had been employed to keep hidden, structure and the unseen in exact agreement is the most pointed thing here.

Jupiter closed a full circuit of his chart, back on the degree of Sagittarius where it began, on 22 November 2018, at thirty five, running backwards as it had been at the beginning. Jupiter is the planet of how far a thing is allowed to travel, and it completed a full circuit of the chart belonging to somebody who, on the record, cannot travel. Three laps lie behind that date, and the second group in his chart sits in Sagittarius, the sign that exists to go somewhere else, with three planets in it and all three running backwards.