Jim Morrison

Air takes four of his ten planets, fire three, earth two and a single one water, with four of the ten fixed and four mutable. Mars, Saturn and Uranus fill seventeen degrees of Gemini. The record says Morrison fronted The Doors and was found dead in a Paris bathtub at twenty seven with no autopsy performed, and that his grave is one of the most visited in the city.

Saturn sits in mild friction with Pluto at a fifth of a degree, pressure against pressure: periods of severe constraint, and the enforced ending of something that had lasted. The Sun sits in that same friction with Venus at three tenths, taste slightly out of step with self worth, and a fifth of a turn from Neptune at a third, imagination available at no cost. For a singer the record gives one band and a grave, the Neptune contact is the one that reaches the work.

The Moon sits in mild friction with Saturn at half a degree and square Pluto at seven tenths, and its sign is certain at nine degrees of Taurus, where the physical basics have to be settled before anything else can happen. Feeling pressed by limit and by force at those orbs, under a Sun in the sign that finds a long commitment feels like a wall, is the structure of this chart. For a singer the record gives one band and a bathtub, feeling pressed by limit and by force is the part of the chart that is about a person rather than about an ending.

He died in Paris on 3 July 1971, at twenty seven. Jupiter stood square its own natal place at just over a quarter of a degree that day, and nothing else in the sky sat inside a degree. The record says no autopsy was performed, which means nobody knows the cause, and a chart that cannot tell you what somebody had for breakfast is certainly not going to supply one. The Moon was at its first quarter and seventy five per cent lit.