Linda McCartney

Air takes four of her ten planets, with two apiece in fire, earth and water, and four of the ten are fixed. The record is two halves: McCartney was a rock photographer before Wings, and ran a vegetarian food business after.

A yod closes on the Moon, Mars and Jupiter without resolving, and the Moon's sign is certain at nineteen degrees of Scorpio, so the figure can be used. A yod is the arrangement that does not settle on its own terms, and having feeling, drive and scale locked into one is a fair enough picture of a record with two separate careers in it and a band in the middle.

Mars sits sixty degrees from that Jupiter at four tenths of a degree, the closest contact here, which is effort that pays and well timed action. Jupiter sits in mild friction with Pluto at two thirds, ambition and force colliding, and Saturn in easy contact with Neptune at four fifths, imagination made durable and artists who finish things. For a photographer the record credits with work before the band and a business after it, the Saturn contact is the one that accounts for the finishing. The Sun sits in easy contact with Uranus at a degree, independence without a fight, and Venus in mild friction with Neptune at a degree and a third. The Sun itself sits on the second degree of Libra with Mercury at twenty six, the sign worked out in relation to other people, and Venus at eleven of Scorpio with the Moon at nineteen. Saturn sits on the last two degrees of Taurus and Uranus on the first twelve minutes of Gemini, so two planets here sit on a threshold. Mars, Saturn and Uranus were the three retrograde planets.

She died at Tucson on 17 April 1998, at fifty six. The Moon was disseminating and seventy one per cent lit, a phase that passes on what was worked out and needs it to land, which for somebody the record places behind a camera and then behind a label is the phase both halves of that record depend on.