Louise Brooks

Water takes four of her ten planets, air three, fire two and a single one earth, with five of the ten in cardinal signs and only one fixed. Water registers a thing before deciding about it; the element that would hold it still is down to one planet. Brooks acted, and the record names Pandora's Box and calls her a silent film icon.

The Sun sits at twenty one degrees of Scorpio, which commits completely and gives very little away, while Mercury and Venus sit conjunct inside two thirds of a degree of each other in Sagittarius, with Venus retrograde. Thought and taste in the same place reads as a good ear and a preference for the elegant answer over the exhaustive one. Her Moon sits on the twenty ninth degree of Libra at noon and may by then have moved on into Scorpio, which puts the private half between keeping the peace and admitting nothing at all. For an actress working before anybody recorded a voice, a good ear and an elegant answer were not the equipment the films could use.

The Sun sits in mild friction with Uranus at four tenths of a degree, the urge to break out arriving at the wrong moment, and Mars sits square Jupiter at just under one, action outrunning sense. A T-square holds Mars, Jupiter and Uranus with no outlet, so the break and the overreach are locked together with nothing to discharge them through. Mercury stands at an awkward angle to Neptune at just over a degree. Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto were the four retrograde planets. In a career the record closes early, a break and an overreach locked together with no outlet is the structure worth naming.

She died at Rochester on 8 August 1985, at seventy eight. Mars is the older ruler of her Scorpio Sun, and that day it sat sixty degrees from its own natal place at four tenths of a degree. Saturn stood conjunct her natal Sun sixteen hundredths of a degree from exact, the closest contact in that sky, while Uranus stood on both halves of her Mercury and Venus pairing at once, seventeen hundredths from the Venus and half a degree from the Mercury. The Moon was disseminating and half lit, the phase that passes on what was worked out and needs it to land. For an actress the record fixes to one film and an era, a chart with one planet in earth and five in cardinal signs is a fair account of why the rest of it moved on.