Jim Thorpe

Not one of his ten planets sits in a fire sign. Earth and air take four each with two in water, and the ten divide four cardinal, four fixed and two mutable. Mercury, Mars and Neptune sit inside three degrees of Taurus. Jupiter and Uranus were the two retrograde planets. The record says Thorpe won the Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in 1912 and then played professional football and baseball, and that his medals were stripped over a technicality and restored decades after he died.

No planet at all in fire, in that record, is the count worth opening on. Fire is the element a reader has been told means assertion and going first, and the record is two Olympic titles won at one games followed by two professional sports played for a living. The absence proves nothing, because an absent element is not a prediction of anything, but it is the kind of result a reader should see rather than have smoothed over.

Saturn sits in mild friction with Pluto at three quarters of a degree, and the caveat goes first because both planets are slow and everybody born across those years carries it. The reading is pressure against pressure, glossed as confrontation with power and as the enforced ending of something that had lasted a long time. Medals stripped over a technicality is an authority ending something by procedure, and the record's own last clause is that it took decades and his death before anybody put them back.

His Moon sits on the twenty ninth degree of Taurus at noon with Gemini still possible, so it is left out, and a four planet group in Taurus comes down to three with it. Mercury sits conjunct Mars at under three quarters of a degree, quick and pointed, with a standing caution that the tongue is a weapon here whether or not it is meant to be, and the record gives that nothing to work on at all. He died at Lomita on 28 March 1953, at sixty five. The transiting Moon stood sixty degrees from his natal Saturn at seven hundredths of a degree that day. The Moon was gibbous and ninety seven per cent lit, a phase that refines and questions and rarely calls anything finished.