Fulton J. Sheen

Not one of his ten planets sits in a fire sign. Water takes five, air three and earth two, and five of the ten are fixed. The Moon, Saturn and Uranus fill fifteen degrees of Scorpio and Venus, Neptune and Pluto fourteen degrees of Gemini, so six of the ten sit in those two signs. The record calls Sheen a prime time television preacher who beat Milton Berle in the ratings.

The Sun sits directly opposite Uranus at seven hundredths of a degree, close enough to call exact, and the reading is sudden growth seen from the hard side: opportunity arriving unexpectedly, an appetite for reform, and a life that changes shape quickly when it changes at all. A preacher who ended up in a prime time slot opposite a comedian is a career that changed shape in a way nobody could have planned, and that opposition at seven hundredths is the contact the record points at.

No fire at all, in somebody whose trade was standing in front of a camera and holding a room, is the absence worth naming and not explaining. The Moon stands at an awkward angle to Neptune at just over a fifth of a degree, need turning to fog, and its sign is certain at fifteen degrees of Scorpio, where what is felt goes deep and is given away sparingly. Mars sits in quiet contact with Pluto at three quarters. Saturn and Uranus were the two retrograde planets.

He died in New York on 9 December 1979, at eighty four. Jupiter stood sixty degrees from his natal Mars at under a fifth of a degree that day. The Moon was disseminating and sixty seven per cent lit, a phase that passes on what was worked out and needs it to land, which for a broadcaster is the phase the whole trade runs on.