Leslie Cheung

Fire takes four of his ten planets, with two apiece in earth, air and water, so nothing in this chart is scarce. The record calls Cheung a Hong Kong singer and actor, and names Farewell My Concubine.

The Sun sits at nineteen degrees of Virgo with Jupiter at fourteen of the same sign, and the Moon answers from Sagittarius at twenty one. Virgo is built on doing the thing properly, with a standard applied hardest to itself; Sagittarius needs room and becomes noticeably difficult without it. Venus, Uranus and Pluto spread right across Leo. For somebody whose record names two trades at once, a Virgo Sun and a Sagittarius Moon describe the two halves: the preparation is exacting and the need is for air.

A T-square holds the Sun, the Moon and Mars with no outlet, which puts both lights braced against drive and nothing in the figure to discharge it through. Jupiter sits in mild friction with Neptune one hundredth of a degree from exact, which is as close as this table can measure, and the reading is faith without evidence: promises that felt entirely real when they were made. The Moon sits in hard contact with Uranus at just over a fifth of a degree. Mars alone was retrograde at his birth, which turns the planet at the apex of that T-square inward. In a performer who sang and acted both, a T-square on both lights is the structure the whole record sits inside.

He died in Hong Kong on 1 April 2003, at forty six. Both of his lights were touched that day: Pluto stood square his natal Sun at three fifths of a degree and conjunct his natal Moon at just over two thirds. Mercury rules his Virgo Sun, and Neptune sat in easy contact with that Mercury at just under three fifths while the transiting Sun stood opposite it at just over a degree. The Moon was balsamic and entirely unlit, the phase that finishes things, lets them go and is already looking past them. A T-square on both lights, in a performer, is a heavy structure to carry and the honest thing to report from this chart.