Eva Perón

Fire takes four of her ten planets, water three, earth two and a single one air, with five of the ten fixed. Nothing in this chart was retrograde. The Sun and Mars sit half a degree apart on the sixteenth degree of Taurus. The record says Peron came from rural poverty to become the most powerful woman in Argentina, won women the vote, and died of cancer at thirty three, and that her embalmed body was stolen and hidden abroad for sixteen years.

The Sun conjunct Mars at half a degree is the usable contact in this chart, and the reading is that self and will are the same thing: courage, competitiveness, and a low tolerance for being told to wait. The standing caution attached to it is that anger and identity are hard to separate here, so criticism lands as attack. For somebody who went from rural poverty to the centre of a government and won a franchise on the way, a low tolerance for being told to wait is the half of that reading the record can support.

Beyond those two planets this is a loose chart. The next contact out is Saturn in mild friction with Pluto at over a degree and a half, and that is a slow pair besides, so one conjunction is carrying the whole reading. It is worth stating plainly, because a chart with one tight contact and a record this dense is a chart being asked to explain a great deal more than it holds. Five planets in fixed signs with four in fire is the rest of it: a chart that commits and does not easily move off a position.

The record's last sentence is that her embalmed body was stolen and hidden abroad for sixteen years. That happened to her after she was dead, it was done by other people for reasons of their own, and no arrangement of ten planets contains, predicts or explains any part of it. Her Moon sits on the twenty fifth degree of Leo at noon with Virgo still possible, so it is left out, and a three planet Leo group drops to two. She died at Buenos Aires on 26 July 1952, at thirty three. One contact came inside half a degree that day, the Moon square her natal Venus at three hundredths. The Moon was a crescent at eighteen per cent, a phase that pushes against the weight of how things have always been done.