Mary Pickford

Earth takes four of her ten planets, air three, fire two and a single one water, with five of the ten mutable. Venus, Neptune and Pluto sit inside under four degrees of Gemini. The record calls Pickford America's Sweetheart and one of the shrewdest business people in early Hollywood, and says she co-founded United Artists and controlled her own films.

Three yods close in this chart and every one of them runs through Jupiter and Uranus, picking up Venus, Neptune and Pluto in turn. Three figures on one pair is the most repeated arrangement this set has found, and a yod resolves on nobody's terms, so what it describes is a chart that keeps arriving at the same unanswerable question from three directions. In an actress who took ownership of her own films rather than being cast in other people's, the pair the figures rest on is scale and the refusal to be arranged.

Mercury sits directly opposite Uranus at a fifth of a degree, the closest individual contact, which is thought jumping the rails: changing position abruptly, and being right in a way nobody has the context to follow. Founding a studio in 1919 was being right before anybody had context for it. The Sun sits at nineteen degrees of Aries with Jupiter on the sixth, and the Moon answers from Virgo at eleven, settling a feeling by finding a task. Both lights are certain.

She died at Santa Monica on 29 May 1979, at eighty seven. Neptune stood in easy contact with her natal Sun at just over a tenth of a degree that day, Jupiter square her natal Uranus at the same orb and Saturn square her natal Pluto at fourteen hundredths, so two of the three planets her yods rest on were being worked at once. The Moon was new and fourteen per cent lit, which is the phase that starts things without waiting to see the whole of them.