Jon Ronson

Earth takes five of his ten planets, water three, and a single one each in fire and air, with four of the ten cardinal and four fixed. Venus sits on the first quarter degree of Cancer. The record calls Ronson a Welsh writer and documentary maker, and names The Psychopath Test.

Mercury sits in easy contact with Pluto at under half a degree, and that reading runs through strategy and persuasion to an unusual tolerance for uncomfortable information. The last of those, in the writer of the book the record picks out by name, is as near as this chart gets to describing the job, since a tolerance for uncomfortable information is most of what a documentary maker is for. The Sun sits in easy contact with the same Pluto a degree out, power that is usable rather than overwhelming, which includes an instinct for what is really going on underneath a situation.

Two contacts to one slow planet, both of them about looking at things other people would rather not, is a fair result for a writer whose trade is exactly that, and the orbs are honest ones: half a degree and a degree. Saturn then lies at an awkward angle to Neptune at two hundredths of a degree, far tighter than either, and its reading is structure dissolving: disillusionment, effort that seems to drain away, and the slow discovery that something relied upon was not solid. So the tightest orb in the chart and the best fit in it are not the same contact, which is the usual state of affairs, and the tightest one is a slow pair shared with a whole cohort.

Mercury sits at an awkward angle to Mars at under a degree, thought and drive colliding: arguing for its own sake, impatience with slower thinkers, and saying the true thing in the most damaging available way. The Sun sits in easy contact with Uranus at a degree and a third, independence without a fight. His Moon sits on the twenty eighth degree of Taurus at noon with Gemini still possible, so it is left out, and the cost is a group of three, since the Sun, Moon and Mercury would otherwise fill eleven degrees of Taurus. Mars, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were the four retrograde planets. Jupiter came back to its Cancer birth degree on 21 June 2026, at fifty nine, and four laps precede it.