Jules Pascin

Not one of his ten planets sits in a water sign and only one sits in earth. Fire takes five and air four, and six of the ten are cardinal. The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars spread across twenty seven degrees of Aries, the sign that goes first. The record calls Pascin the Prince of Montparnasse, and credits him with a line of extraordinary delicacy.

Four planets in the sign of going first, with no water anywhere and one planet in earth, in a painter the record praises for delicacy, is a contrast the chart does not resolve. Mars sits sixty degrees from Pluto at nine hundredths of a degree, close enough to call exact, which is strategic effort and surviving what would stop most people, and directly opposite Uranus at a fifth, action without warning and a temper that arrives with no build up at all. Drive wired to force one way and to upheaval the other, at those orbs, is the structural fact here.

Uranus sits in easy contact with Pluto at just over a tenth of a degree, which is the tightest pairing in the chart and belongs to a cohort rather than to him. Mercury sits in easy contact with Jupiter at nine tenths, learning that comes easily, and the Moon sits in easy contact with Saturn at three quarters, with the Moon's sign certain at twenty degrees of Libra. Venus sits on the second degree of Aries and Mars on the first, both at the very opening of the sign. Jupiter and Uranus were the two retrograde planets. A painter the record praises for delicacy had drive wired to force and to upheaval at a tenth and a fifth of a degree, which is not what the praise would predict and is what the degrees say.

He died in Paris on 5 June 1930, at forty five. Neptune stood square his natal Pluto at under four tenths of a degree that day and Saturn square his natal Sun at half. The record gives no cause of death and this chart is not being used to supply one. The Moon was at its first quarter and sixty seven per cent lit.