Ginger Baker

Fire takes five of his ten planets, earth four, a single one air and not one water. The element that would register what any of it cost is missing from the chart entirely, which in a record that ends with falling out with almost everybody is the absence to start with. The record says Baker brought African polyrhythms into rock with Cream and drove across the Sahara to record with Fela Kuti.

The Sun sits at twenty six degrees of Leo with Venus at twenty one, Mercury at twelve and retrograde, and Pluto on the second degree, four planets in the sign that wants the room. His Moon sits at twenty five degrees of Libra at noon and may by then have moved on into Scorpio. Saturn sits on the first degree of Taurus and was retrograde. For a drummer, four planets in the performing sign with no water anywhere is a hard and useful combination.

A grand trine closes between Mars, Uranus and Neptune, with all three points in earth signs, which is a self contained figure asking nothing of the rest of the chart. In a player whose subject was rhythm, a closed figure in the element that keeps time is as close as this project gets to a literal reading. Venus sits square Uranus at just over a degree, closeness and freedom colliding, which reads as abrupt endings. Saturn sits square Pluto at half a degree. Four of the ten planets were retrograde.

He died at Canterbury on 6 October 2019, at eighty. The Sun rules Leo, and that day it sat sixty degrees from his natal Mercury at two thirds of a degree. The Moon ran straight into his grand trine, in easy contact with his natal Uranus at four tenths and his natal Neptune at half, while Pluto sat in the same easy contact with both from further out. Mars sat sixty degrees from his natal Pluto at three tenths. The Moon was at its first quarter and fifty eight per cent lit. That is the phase that acts decisively and often has to break something to do it.