George S. Patton

A single planet sits in fire. Earth takes five of his ten planets, with two apiece in air and water, and four of the ten are cardinal. The chart holds two T-squares, one on Venus, Saturn and Uranus, the other on Mercury, Mars and Pluto. The record says Patton drove the Third Army across France faster than its supply lines could follow, was nearly ended by slapping two soldiers with combat stress, and died after a car accident in Germany.

One planet in fire, in the general that record describes, is the count a reader will refuse to believe. Fire in a chart is a temperament, quick and self-starting and easily bored, and nobody reading the first sentence of that record would guess there was only one planet in it. The chart is weighted into earth instead, five planets of it, which is the element of what gets made and kept, and is not a bad description of a supply line.

Mars sits square Pluto at under seven tenths of a degree, and the reading is force against force: power struggles, a rage that frightens the person having it, and situations where winning becomes more important than the thing being won. The record's second fact is striking two soldiers with combat stress, which nearly ended his command. The Moon stands at an awkward angle to that same Mars at under half a degree, need and drive colliding, which carries a standing clause about reacting before understanding. Two separate contacts describing a temper, and a record supplying one occasion of it.

One occasion is not proof of a temperament, and a temperament is not an explanation of an occasion, so what this entry has is a chart and a record pointing the same way without either establishing the other. Mercury sits in quiet contact with Venus at under a quarter of a degree, charm in communication, which is the mildest reading available here and the one the record gives nothing for. The Moon's sign is certain at sixteen degrees of Capricorn, which manages feeling rather than expressing it. Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were the three retrograde planets. He died at Heidelberg on 21 December 1945, at sixty. The transiting Sun stood square his natal Jupiter at six hundredths of a degree that day. The Moon was full and ninety three per cent lit.