Grant Morrison

Earth takes four of the ten planets, with two apiece in fire, air and water, and four of the ten are fixed. Venus, Mars and Saturn fill eight degrees of Capricorn. The record is one line: Morrison is a Scottish comics writer, and it names The Invisibles.

Mars sits conjunct Saturn at a tenth of a degree, the closest contact here, and the reading is controlled force: discipline, stamina, cold effectiveness, and somebody who works long past the point where other people stop. Both of them sit inside the Capricorn group with Venus, which puts drive, limit and taste together in the sign that treats a position as a thing to be occupied properly, all inside eight degrees. Morrison's record is one series, and that is the trade those three planets have to account for.

Stamina is the reading to keep here, because the trade is a monthly one and the record names a series rather than a single book. A series is the format that punishes anybody who cannot keep going, so a contact about working past the point where others stop is a point about the shape of the work rather than about its quality, and the shape is as much as a chart can reach. Venus sits in easy contact with Pluto at under a quarter of a degree as well, depth in relating: loyalty that survives difficulty, and an instinct for what somebody actually needs.

Jupiter sits in mild friction with Neptune at nine tenths of a degree, faith without evidence: wishful thinking, and promises that felt entirely real when they were made, and the Sun sits in mild friction with that same Jupiter at under two thirds, belief in one's own scale meeting a limit. Venus stands at an awkward angle to Uranus at under nine tenths, closeness and freedom colliding. The Moon's sign is certain at twenty three degrees of Pisces, which absorbs the mood of a room whether or not it wants to. Uranus and Pluto were the two retrograde planets. Jupiter came back to its Sagittarius birth degree on 9 November 2019, at fifty nine, and four laps precede it. Sagittarius measures a thing by the distance it got from where it started.