Guy de Maupassant

Not one of the ten planets sits in an air sign. Fire and earth take four each and water two, with four of the ten mutable. Venus, Mars and Jupiter sit inside under four degrees of Virgo, which is a very tight group for three planets and sits in the sign built on doing something properly and being useful. The record says Maupassant wrote about three hundred stories in a decade, hated the Eiffel Tower, and died in an asylum at forty two of syphilis.

Three planets inside four degrees of the sign of getting a thing right, in a writer who produced three hundred stories in ten years, is the one place this chart and this record line up without any help. No air at all is the other half, and in a short story writer the absence of the element that stands back to arrange is worth stating and not explaining.

Venus lies at an awkward angle to Saturn at a third of a degree, warmth meeting a wall, and Saturn in mild friction with Neptune at just over a quarter, realistic idealism or its collapse. The tightest pairing is Uranus conjunct Pluto at under half a degree, which belongs to a whole cohort and says nothing about one person. The Sun sits at thirteen degrees of Leo with Mercury at eighteen, and the Moon answers from Cancer at nine, certain, where feeling is at full strength and unfiltered. A short story writer with three hundred stories behind him had the slow half of his chart in a knot and the fast half in the sign of getting a thing right.

Maupassant died in Paris on 6 July 1893, at forty two. Neptune stood sixty degrees from the natal Sun at under four tenths of a degree that day and Uranus in easy contact with the natal Neptune at the same orb. The record gives the cause of death and the place, and this chart supplies no part of either. The Moon was disseminating and fifty five per cent lit, a phase that passes on what was worked out and needs it to land.