Lev Vygotsky

Water takes four of his ten planets, air three, fire two and a single one earth, with five of the ten mutable. The Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Uranus fill six and a half degrees of Scorpio, which is a very tight group for four planets, and Mars, Neptune and Pluto fill fifteen degrees of Gemini, so seven of the ten sit in those two signs. The record calls Vygotsky a Soviet psychologist whose work was suppressed for decades.

Scorpio is the sign that commits totally to whatever it has chosen and will not be known on anybody else's schedule. Four planets there, in a psychologist whose work waited decades to be read, is a coincidence this project is obliged to name and equally obliged not to turn into a cause: the suppression was a decision taken by a state, and a birth chart does not contain other people's politics.

The Sun sits conjunct Uranus at three quarters of a degree inside that group, which is the self as the thing that will not conform: originality, difficulty with any hierarchy, and somebody who would rather be free than comfortable. Mercury sits at an awkward angle to Neptune at four tenths, thinking that gets misty, and seventy two degrees from Jupiter at nine tenths, learning that comes easily. A yod closes on the Moon, Saturn and Neptune without resolving. The Moon answers from Aries at twenty three and its sign is certain. Mars, Neptune and Pluto were the three retrograde planets. A psychologist whose work the record says waited decades had the planet of not conforming welded to his own Sun, and the chart says nothing whatever about who did the waiting.

He died at Moscow on 10 June 1934, at thirty seven. Jupiter stood in easy contact with his natal Pluto at just over a fifth of a degree that day, Saturn at that same easy angle to his natal Mars at under half, and Pluto square his natal Moon at seven tenths, with the transiting Sun conjunct his natal Neptune at three quarters. The Moon was balsamic and three per cent lit, which is the phase that finishes things, lets them go, and is already looking past them.