Louise Glück

Her ten planets divide three in earth, three in air, two in fire and two in water, with six of the ten mutable against a single cardinal. Venus, Saturn and Uranus fill under eight degrees of Gemini. The record calls Gluck an American poet of eleven collections and a Nobel laureate, whose subject was the family and the self.

Her Moon sits two arcminutes into Sagittarius at noon, which is the most marginal Moon in this set and makes its sign genuinely unsettled. The cost is heavy: it takes away the chart's third closest contact, the Moon sixty degrees from Neptune at sixteen hundredths, and both of its closed figures, a yod on the Sun, the Moon and Neptune and a T-square on the Moon, Mars and Uranus. A writer the record credits with eleven collections about the family and the self loses, to a missing birth time, exactly the half of the chart that would have been about feeling.

What survives is two Jupiter contacts inside a tenth of a degree. Jupiter sits in mild friction with Uranus at six hundredths, growth arriving disruptively and opportunity that costs stability, and a fifth of a turn from Neptune at nine hundredths, generous imagination and real artistic scope. Scale wired to upheaval and to image at those orbs is the usable part of this chart. Mars lies at an awkward angle to Pluto at just under a degree. The Sun sits on the second degree of Taurus with Mercury at twenty. A writer the record credits with eleven published collections had scale wired to image at nine hundredths of a degree, which is the usable half of a chart that lost its other half to a missing hour.

She died at Cambridge on 13 October 2023, at eighty. Venus stood directly opposite her natal Mars at just over a tenth of a degree that day, with Mars opposite her natal Sun at three fifths and Saturn sixty degrees from the same Sun at three quarters. The Moon was balsamic and one per cent lit, the phase that finishes things, lets them go, and is already looking past them.