Lee Marvin

His Sun sits thirteen arcminutes from the end of Aquarius at noon, so without a birth time its sign is not settled: it is either the last of Aquarius, which is built on not being told, or the first of Pisces, which holds no fixed edge of its own. Not one of his ten planets sits in earth. Fire takes five, water three and air two. The record says Marvin was wounded at Saipan and decorated, that he played villains for a decade and then won an Oscar for a comic western, and that he is buried at Arlington.

Jupiter sits square Uranus at under a quarter of a degree, the closest contact here, which is growth arriving disruptively: opportunity that costs stability, and restlessness that discards something workable for something merely new. An actor who spent ten years as the heavy and then won an award for a comedy discarded something workable on purpose, and that contact is the one the record's middle fact answers.

Jupiter also sits in mild friction with Saturn at over half a degree, expansion against caution, and Saturn in hard contact with Uranus at three quarters, order against revolt, so the slow half of the chart is a knot of its own. The Moon sits conjunct Neptune at under nine tenths of a degree and its sign is certain at eighteen degrees of Leo, feeling without edges and absorbing the mood of a room whether or not it wants to. In somebody the record sends to Saipan at nineteen, that is the contact worth sitting with and not pressing. Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were the three retrograde planets.

He died at Tucson on 29 August 1987, at sixty three. Pluto stood square his natal Mercury at just over a tenth of a degree that day and Jupiter sixty degrees from his natal Sun at under a quarter. The Moon was a crescent at twenty five per cent.