Gene Tierney

Water takes five of her ten planets, earth four and a single one fire, which leaves air with none at all. The element that would stand back from a thing and talk it over is missing from this chart entirely. The record says Tierney starred in Laura and Leave Her to Heaven, and that she spent years in psychiatric hospitals after contracting rubella in pregnancy from a fan who broke quarantine to meet her.

That second sentence is the record's own, and it describes something that was done to her. Nothing in this chart accounts for it and nothing in this chart anticipated it, and what follows is about a birth chart rather than about what happened. There are three contacts here inside a degree and a quarter, which makes it a loose chart by the standards of this project.

Venus sits sixty degrees from Uranus at under two thirds of a degree, the closest of the three, which is independent affection without conflict and unconventional arrangements that work. The Sun sits a fifth of a turn from Jupiter at three quarters, growth without much friction and an easy faith that things will work out. Mars sits in easy contact with Saturn at just over a degree, drive and limit on terms with each other rather than at odds. The Sun itself sits at twenty eight degrees of Scorpio with Mercury at nineteen and retrograde, and the Moon answers from Pisces at seven, certain, absorbing whatever is in the room. In the record of somebody who starred in two films and then lost years to a hospital, a loose chart is the honest finding rather than a failure of looking.

She died at Houston on 6 November 1991, at seventy. The transiting Sun was in Scorpio, the sign her own Sun occupies, and it stood square her natal Neptune at seven hundredths of a degree, with Mars square that same Neptune at under three fifths and Pluto conjunct her natal Mercury at three quarters. The Moon was new and entirely unlit, the phase that starts things without waiting to see the whole of them.