Harriet Tubman

The record carries a caveat that has to come first: the birth year is approximate, because records were not kept. Everything below is cast from 15 March 1822 as the record stores it, and a year of error moves the slow planets a little and the Moon completely. The record says Tubman escaped slavery and returned about thirteen times to bring roughly seventy other people out, and later scouted for the Union Army.

Not one of the ten planets sits in an air sign. Water takes four, fire and earth three each, and five of the ten are mutable. The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto fill nineteen degrees of Pisces, the sign that holds no fixed edge of its own, with Mercury and Venus both retrograde. Nothing in this chart stands back from a thing in order to discuss it. The record of thirteen journeys and about seventy people is what this chart has to be read against, and nothing in it stands back from that either.

A grand trine closes between the Moon, Mars and Saturn, a self contained figure that asks nothing of the rest of the chart, and the Moon sits in easy contact with that Mars at under half a degree inside it: feelings that translate into action cleanly, somebody who deals with a problem rather than sitting in it. Thirteen return journeys is that reading carried out about as literally as a record can carry it, and a closed figure of feeling, drive and endurance is a fair enough picture of what the journeys would have taken. Mars sits in hard contact with Uranus at eight hundredths of a degree, action without warning.

Tubman died at Auburn on 10 March 1913, at ninety. The transiting Sun was back in Pisces, the sign the natal Sun occupies, with Saturn sixty degrees from the natal Pluto at half a degree and Neptune in easy contact with the natal Sun at just over a degree. The Moon was new and six per cent lit, the phase that starts things without waiting to see the whole of them. The approximate birth year applies to every line of this.