Lord Byron

Not one of his ten planets sits in a fire sign and only one sits in earth. Air takes six and water three, with five of the ten cardinal and a single mutable. The Sun, Venus, Saturn and Pluto spread across twenty six degrees of Aquarius. The record says Byron was described by a former lover as mad, bad and dangerous to know, that he left England in scandal, and that he died of fever at thirty six while fighting for Greek independence.

No fire at all, in the poet whose reputation is the most flammable in English letters, is the first thing this chart says and it says it flatly. The element that charges at a thing has no planet in it anywhere; the element that arranges and argues has six. Whatever the lover meant, the chart describes somebody whose material was air: four planets in the sign built on not being told, and one planet in the whole chart that would register what any of it cost.

Saturn lies at an awkward angle to Uranus at seven hundredths of a degree, close enough to call exact, which is order against revolt: the fight between security and freedom, and frustration with rules that serve nobody. The Sun sits in hard contact with Jupiter at sixteen hundredths, belief in its own scale meeting a limit, and the specific discomfort of having been confident in public and wrong. His Moon sits at twenty four degrees of Cancer at noon with Leo still possible, which costs this chart a T-square and a second stellium, so both are left out. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune were the four retrograde planets.

He died at Missolonghi on 19 April 1824, at thirty six. Venus stood sixty degrees from his natal Sun at under three tenths of a degree that day and Saturn at the same angle to his natal Moon at the same orb. The record gives the fever and the place, and the chart adds nothing to either. The Moon was disseminating and sixty seven per cent lit.