Elizabeth Taylor

Water takes five of her ten planets, fire three, and a single one apiece in earth and air. The Sun, Mercury and Mars fill six degrees of Pisces, the sign that holds no fixed edge of its own. The record calls Taylor a star from the age of twelve, twice an Oscar winner, and one of the first public figures to raise money for AIDS research when almost nobody else would.

Venus sits conjunct Uranus at just over half a degree, which is unconventional attraction: sudden infatuation, a need for freedom inside closeness, and taste that is genuinely the person's own. The Sun sits conjunct Mercury at the same orb, which binds identity to being articulate and to being right. In a record whose third fact is doing something publicly before it was safe to, the second of those contacts is the one that reaches it: this is a chart where what somebody thinks and who they are cannot be pulled apart.

Mars sits in mild friction with that Uranus at under a fifth of a degree, action without warning, and Venus sits in the same friction with Mars at three quarters, attraction and drive disagreeing. Venus, Mars and Uranus are therefore tied to each other three ways inside three quarters of a degree. The Moon answers from Scorpio at twenty one, feeling everything at depth and showing almost none of it, and its sign is certain. Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto were the three retrograde planets. An actress who was a star from twelve had taste, drive and upheaval wired to each other inside three quarters of a degree, which is a chart that was never going to be quiet.

She died at Los Angeles on 23 March 2011, at seventy nine. Pluto stood sixty degrees from her natal Sun at a quarter of a degree that day and from her natal Mercury at three quarters, with Uranus and Saturn both at that same easy angle to her natal Saturn and Jupiter. The Moon was disseminating and seventy eight per cent lit. That is the phase that passes on what was worked out and needs it to land, which for a record whose last fact is money raised for other people is the phase to leave this on.