Joseph Campbell

Not one of his ten planets sits in an earth sign. Fire takes five, water three and air two, with six of the ten in cardinal signs. The Sun sits on the sixth degree of Aries, Mercury on the fifth and Jupiter on the sixth, so three planets sit inside a single degree of each other, with Mars at twenty two of the same sign. The record gives Campbell The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and says Star Wars was built on it.

Three planets inside a degree is a very tight fusion, and of all the trios a chart could offer this is the one that matches the record. The Sun sits conjunct Mercury at under a fifth of a degree, which is being your own thinking, and conjunct Jupiter at half a degree, which is confidence as a trait rather than an achievement, with the old warning that nothing in the pairing teaches restraint, so the scale of a thing runs ahead of its substance. A man who argued that every story in the world is one story has identity, speech and scale welded together on the sixth degree of the sign that goes first.

Mars sits a fifth of a turn from Neptune at under three fifths of a degree, effort with imagination behind it, and Jupiter at that same angle to Pluto at two thirds. Six cardinal planets and no earth is the other half of the shape: everything here starts, and nothing in it holds a position or counts the cost. His Moon sits on the last degree of Cancer at noon with Leo still possible, so it is left out. Nothing was retrograde.

He died at Honolulu on 30 October 1987, at eighty three. Neptune spent that day squaring all three of the fused planets, the Sun at thirteen hundredths of a degree, Mercury at under a third and Jupiter at four tenths, with Saturn directly opposite his natal Pluto at a third. The Moon was at its first quarter and sixty four per cent lit.