Howard Carter

Not a single one of his ten planets sits in water, with earth and air taking four each and fire two, and six of the ten are fixed against one cardinal. This is a chart that holds its position and has nothing in it to register what the holding costs. The record says Carter found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 after six seasons of finding nothing, in the final season his patron was willing to fund, and adds that the curse story was invented by newspapers.

The Moon sits square Pluto at five hundredths of a degree, the closest contact here, and the Moon's sign is certain. The reading is need turning into compulsion: emotional crises that keep recurring until something is genuinely faced. Six seasons of digging and finding nothing, with the funding about to stop, is compulsion in about its most literal available form, and that square at five hundredths of a degree is the contact a reader should be handed for it.

The Sun sits at nineteen degrees of Taurus with Pluto at twenty one and Mercury on the second degree, so three planets fill that sign, and the Moon answers from Aquarius at twenty one with Saturn at fourteen. Jupiter sits in mild friction with Uranus at under a quarter of a degree and in easy contact with Pluto at four fifths, while Venus sits sixty degrees from Uranus at just under nine tenths. Jupiter alone was retrograde. An archaeologist holds a position for six seasons or he finds nothing, and a chart with six fixed planets is at least the right instrument for the job.

He died in London on 2 March 1939, at sixty four. Mercury stood sixty degrees from his natal Pluto at under a fifth of a degree that day, Neptune conjunct his natal Jupiter at three tenths and Uranus square his natal Saturn at just over a third. The record's own last sentence says the curse was a newspaper invention, which is the right note to finish on: a chart is not a cause either, and this one is being read rather than blamed.