Girish Karnad

Earth takes five of his ten planets, air two, water two and a single one fire, with four of the ten mutable. The Sun, Mercury and Uranus spread across twenty five degrees of Taurus, which accumulates rather than announces. The record calls Karnad an Indian playwright, actor and Rhodes scholar.

Mercury sits in mild friction with Mars at a fifth of a degree, the closest contact here, which is thought and drive arguing: the tongue used as a weapon whether or not it was meant that way, and impatience with slower thinkers. For a playwright who also acted and also took a scholarship, speech in friction with drive is a reading all three trades can carry, and the chart has nothing tighter.

The Sun sits sixty degrees from Pluto at just over half a degree, power that is usable rather than overwhelming: resilience, and an instinct for what is really going on beneath a situation. Mars sits square Neptune at just under a degree, will without a clear direction, and the Sun in mild friction with Saturn at a degree and a third. Saturn sits in quiet contact with Uranus at under three fifths of a degree, which is practical innovation: new ideas that actually get built, and an unusual patience for slow change. Mercury sits in hard contact with Neptune at just over a degree. Venus and Mars both sit in Gemini, Jupiter on the first degree of Pisces and Pluto on the last of Cancer. The Moon answers from Capricorn at twenty two and its sign is certain, where a feeling asks what the thing cost first. Neptune alone was retrograde. A playwright who also acted and also took a scholarship had three trades to spend that friction on, and the record names all three without ranking them.

He died at Bengaluru on 10 June 2019, at eighty one. Neptune stood directly opposite its own natal place at just under three tenths of a degree that day, which is the halfway point of a Neptune cycle and comes once in a long life. The Moon was at its first quarter and half lit, the phase that acts decisively and often has to break something to do it.