Gilda Radner

Air takes four of her ten planets, fire three, water two and a single one earth, with four of the ten cardinal. Nothing in this chart was retrograde. Mercury, Venus and Pluto fill eleven degrees of Leo. The record says Radner was one of the original Saturday Night Live cast and the first performer hired for it, that she died of ovarian cancer at forty two, and that the cancer support organisation named for her still runs.

Jupiter sits in easy contact with Uranus at just under a degree, and the reading is fortunate change: being in the right place when something shifts, and an ease around new ideas. The record's first fact is being the first performer hired for the programme, which is being in the right place when something shifts, stated as a hiring order. That is about as literal as this vocabulary gets, and it is also a reading that would be given to everybody born across several weeks.

This is otherwise a loose chart, and the tightest contact in it is the Sun square Neptune at half a degree, the self obscured: confusion about direction, and vitality that comes and goes for no clear reason. In a performer the record describes by one job and one illness, that reading has nowhere to land, and the second clause is the kind a reader may try to attach to a diagnosis. It must not be. Vitality that comes and goes for no clear reason is a sentence about moods, and ovarian cancer is a disease.

Mars sits in quiet contact with that same Neptune at just over a degree, effort with imagination behind it, which is the nearest thing here to a reading about comic performance. Her Moon sits on the last arcminutes of Gemini at noon with Cancer still possible, so it is left out. She died at Los Angeles on 20 May 1989, at forty two. Uranus stood in easy contact with her natal Mars at thirteen hundredths of a degree that day and Mercury square that same Mars at a third. The Moon was full and one hundred per cent lit, which is as exact as that phase gets, and the record's last fact is an organisation that has outlasted her by decades.