Harlan Ellison

His ten planets divide four in air and two apiece in fire, earth and water, with four of the ten cardinal. This chart holds no closed figure of any kind. The record gives Ellison two clauses: A Boy and His Dog, and a temper as famous as the stories.

Venus sits square Pluto at just over four tenths of a degree, the closest contact here, and the reading is total attraction turned hard: relationships that transform the person, magnetism, and an all or nothing approach that leaves little room for the ordinary. Jupiter sits in hard contact with Saturn at half a degree, expansion against caution: the swing between taking far too much on and taking nothing on, and timing that is repeatedly slightly wrong. For a writer whose record gives one title and one character trait, the second of those is the contact a reader will want for the second clause.

It is worth being plain about what that contact does not do. A temper is a thing other people remember and the record states it as reputation rather than as fact, and Jupiter against Saturn is about scale and brakes rather than about anger. The chart's Mars is in nothing inside a degree and a half. Venus also sits in hard contact with Neptune at just over a degree.

The Sun sits on the sixth degree of Gemini with Mercury at twenty two, the sign built around knowing things and passing them on, and the Moon answers from Scorpio at nineteen, feeling everything at depth and giving almost none of it away. Both lights are certain. He died at Los Angeles on 28 June 2018, at eighty four. Mercury stood square his natal Uranus at a fifth of a degree that day and the Moon square his natal Jupiter at a tenth. The Moon was full and fully lit, the phase that sees a thing clearly and usually through other people.