Margaret Thatcher

Air and water take three of her ten planets each and fire and earth two each, with five of the ten cardinal. The Sun, Mercury and Mars fill fourteen degrees of Libra, and the chart holds a yod made of Mercury, Uranus and Neptune. Uranus was the only retrograde planet. The record calls Thatcher Britain's first woman prime minister and its longest serving of the century, who broke the unions, sold the utilities, and remains the most divisive figure in modern British politics.

Jupiter sits in direct opposition to Pluto at under a quarter of a degree, and the reading is ambition and force colliding: overreaching for control, zealotry, and growth pursued past the point where it is good for anybody. Landed on that record, that is not a reading, it is a political position, and it happens to be the one half the country holds. The other half would take the same three clauses as a description of resolve. A chart that hands a reader the verdict they arrived with is a mirror, and the record's own last clause says the mirror is what makes her divisive.

So this entry declines, and what is left is narrower. Mercury sits sixty degrees from Neptune at under a quarter of a degree, intuitive understanding: picking things up without being told, and an ear for what somebody means rather than for what they said. Jupiter sits sixty degrees from Saturn at under three quarters, growth that holds: sound judgement about risk, and a career that accumulates rather than spikes, which for the longest serving prime minister of a century is the shape the record confirms without anybody needing to agree about the content.

Her Moon sits eight arcminutes into Virgo at noon with Leo still possible, which is about as marginal as a placement gets, so it is left out, and two of the six closest contacts go with it. Mars sits in mild friction with Neptune at under a third of a degree, will without direction: tiredness with no cause, and action undermined by uncertainty, which is the one reading here that nobody on either side of that record would recognise. Nothing is missing from the elements or the modes in this chart. She died in London on 8 April 2013, at eighty seven. Mercury stood conjunct her natal Uranus at just over a quarter of a degree that day. The Moon was balsamic and four per cent lit.