Madeleine Albright

Not one of her ten planets sits in an air sign. Earth takes five, fire three and water two, with five of the ten fixed and a single mutable. Mars sits eleven arcminutes from the end of Scorpio, retrograde. The chart holds a mystic rectangle, made of the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto. The record says Albright was the first woman to hold the office, having arrived as a refugee from Czechoslovakia, and that she learned in her sixties that her family was Jewish and that three grandparents died in the Holocaust.

No air at all, in a diplomat, is the inverse to lead on. Air is the element of what gets said, compared and negotiated, and the office in that record is the one whose entire content is talking to other governments. The chart has none of it, and five planets in earth instead. A reader who expected the opposite is right to, and the count is what it is.

A mystic rectangle is two oppositions braced by easy contacts, and it is the one closed figure that resolves rather than presses, because the tension has somewhere to go. The one here runs Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto, and the opposition inside it with the most in it is Jupiter against Pluto at over half a degree, ambition and force colliding: overreaching for control, and growth pursued past the point where it is good for anybody. Landed on a diplomat that would be a political verdict, and a chart cannot assess a foreign policy. The record gives an office, a first, and a refugee's passage.

The record's second sentence is that she learned in her sixties that her family was Jewish and that three grandparents died in the Holocaust. That is a fact about an archive and about a genocide, it was not known to her for six decades, and there is nothing in ten planets that contains, predicts or explains any part of it. Her Moon sits on the second degree of Leo at noon with Cancer still possible, so it is left out, and that costs the tightest contact in the chart and a grand trine along with it. Mercury, Mars and Neptune were the three retrograde planets. She died at Washington on 23 March 2022, at eighty four. Nothing came inside three tenths of a degree of a natal planet that day. The Moon was disseminating and sixty eight per cent lit.