H. G. Wells

Earth and water take four of his ten planets each, with a single one apiece in fire and air, and four of the ten are cardinal with four fixed. The chart holds a T-square on the Moon, Venus and Pluto, and the Moon's sign is certain at nineteen degrees of Aquarius. The record says Wells wrote The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, then spent a long career on politics and prediction, and anticipated the tank, aerial bombing and something close to the atomic bomb.

The Moon lies at an awkward angle to Mercury at nine hundredths of a degree, the tightest contact in the chart, and the reading is that what is felt and what is said pull apart, which it glosses as the specific frustration of not being able to explain something that is perfectly clear internally. For a man who described the tank before there were tanks and aerial bombing before there were bombers, that frustration is the working condition of the job: being right early is indistinguishable, from outside, from not being able to explain yourself.

Mercury sits a fifth of a turn from Mars at under a quarter of a degree, mental energy that goes somewhere: thinking clearly under pressure, and finishing what gets started. Mercury also sits a fifth of a turn from Uranus at a degree and a half, inventiveness without friction: a mind that finds unexpected connections and is not troubled by unconventional conclusions. Three Mercury contacts in a futurist, all of them about a mind running ahead of its audience, is about as consistent as this chart gets.

Venus sits in direct opposition to Pluto at four tenths of a degree, love and control: jealousy, power struggles inside closeness, and attraction to exactly the person who will require the most change. That is a reading about private life and the record contains none, so it stays a standing reading, and the T-square closing on Pluto is where the chart's pressure sits. Neptune and Pluto were the two retrograde planets. He died in London on 13 August 1946, at seventy nine. Pluto stood in easy contact with his natal Neptune at a tenth of a degree that day and Jupiter square its own natal place at sixteen hundredths. The Moon was full and one hundred per cent lit, which is as exact as that phase gets.