Frank Lloyd Wright

Earth and water take three of his ten planets each, with two apiece in fire and air, and four are fixed and four mutable against two cardinal. Saturn alone was retrograde. The record says Wright designed more than a thousand structures across seventy years, including Fallingwater and the Guggenheim, and that he was still working at ninety one.

The Sun sits at seventeen degrees of Gemini with Mercury at twenty seven, the sign built around knowing things and passing them on, whose standing cost is more beginnings behind it than finished work. A record of a thousand structures over seventy years contradicts that about as flatly as any record in this project does, and the honest thing is to say so rather than find a way round it. The Moon answers from Virgo at eleven, settling a feeling by finding a task, which is the half of the chart that does fit.

Every one of the six closest contacts here sits inside three quarters of a degree. Mars sits in mild friction with Uranus at a tenth, Venus directly opposite Saturn at a fifth, Jupiter in easy contact with Uranus at a quarter, Venus a fifth of the circle from Jupiter at a third, and Mercury at that same angle to Neptune at a third. A T-square closes on Venus, Mars and Saturn. Wiring that tight across that many planets is what a chart looks like when very little in it is loose. For a designer the record credits with a thousand structures, a chart with almost no slack in it is at any rate not a contradiction.

He died at Phoenix on 9 April 1959, at ninety one. Saturn stood sixty degrees from his natal Jupiter at two hundredths of a degree that day, the closest thing in that sky, and directly opposite his natal Uranus at a quarter, which is one transiting planet working both ends of the easy contact his chart was born with. The Moon ran into the same pair, sixty degrees from his natal Uranus at a tenth and his natal Jupiter at fifteen hundredths. It was a new moon, two per cent lit, the phase that starts things without waiting to see the whole of them.