James Brown

Earth takes five of his ten planets, fire three, and a single planet each in air and water. Mars, Jupiter and Neptune fill ten degrees of Virgo. The record says Brown moved popular music from the one to the one, which is most of what funk is, and rehearsed his band with fines for wrong notes, and that he performed in Boston the night after King was killed and the city stayed calm.

Venus sits in hard contact with Saturn at three hundredths of a degree, which is about as exact as a contact comes, and the reading is warmth meeting a wall: feeling unworthy, delay or coldness in affection, and a person who withholds first in order not to be refused. The record's second fact is a bandleader who fined musicians for wrong notes, and warmth meeting a wall at three hundredths of a degree is a reading a reader will take straight there. It is a reading about private life rather than about rehearsals, and the record contains no private life at all, so the fit is a coincidence of vocabulary.

Five planets in earth, with one each in air and water, is the balance, and in a musician that is an inverse rather than a fit: earth is the element of what gets made and kept, and this chart has almost nothing in the two elements a reader would expect to carry a song. What it does have is the Moon in easy contact with Mercury at nearly two degrees, feelings that articulate easily, and in quiet contact with Pluto at three tenths, emotional endurance: people who survive things and are strengthened rather than hollowed out by them. The Moon's sign is certain at twenty one degrees of Leo, which expects to be watched.

The record's third fact is the largest in it and the chart has no part in it: he played Boston the night after King was killed and the city stayed calm. Nothing in these ten planets contains that, and the sentence is printed here because it is the most important thing in the record and not because an aspect reaches it. The Sun sits in easy contact with Jupiter at under two thirds of a degree, growth without much friction, and Jupiter and Neptune were the two retrograde planets. He died at Atlanta on 25 December 2006, at seventy three. Saturn stood in easy contact with his natal Uranus at under a quarter of a degree that day and the transiting Sun in easy contact with his natal Mars at under a third. The Moon was a crescent at twenty nine per cent, a phase that pushes against the weight of how things have always been done.