Leopold Auer

Air takes five of his ten planets, with two apiece in fire and earth and a single one in water, and five of the ten are fixed. Mars, Saturn and Neptune fill seven degrees of Aquarius. The record says Auer taught Heifetz, Elman and Zimbalist, and effectively created the Russian violin school.

Jupiter sits a fifth of a turn from Saturn at twelve hundredths of a degree, the closest contact here, and the reading is growth that holds: sound judgement about risk, and a career that accumulates rather than spikes. A record made of three names he taught and a school he left behind is accumulation and nothing else, with no single event in it anywhere, so a reading about a career that accumulates rather than spikes is the rare case of a chart and a record describing the same shape.

The other three tight contacts are all about ease rather than effort. Mercury sits in quiet contact with Venus at four tenths of a degree, charm in communication: somebody easy to talk to, who negotiates without it feeling like negotiation. The Moon sits a fifth of a turn from Jupiter at the same orb, optimism as a resting state, which is resilience and somebody people feel better around. Venus sits a fifth of a turn from Uranus at four fifths, independent affection without conflict. For a teacher whose pupils are the record, being easy to be around is not a trivial reading.

The Sun sits in mild friction with Jupiter at under half a degree, belief in one's own scale meeting a limit, which is the one unflattering contact in a notably comfortable chart. The Moon's sign is certain at thirteen degrees of Cancer, where feeling is at full strength and entirely unfiltered. Saturn and Neptune were the two retrograde planets. He died at Loschwitz on 15 July 1930, at eighty five. Venus stood in easy contact with his natal Jupiter at fourteen hundredths of a degree that day, and the Moon in easy contact with its own natal place at under three tenths, which is a trine and not a return. The Moon was disseminating and eighty two per cent lit, a phase that passes on what was worked out and needs it to land, and for a man whose whole record is what he passed on that is the phase reading doing more work than usual.