Montgomery Clift

Water takes four of his ten planets, fire three, earth two and a single one air, with five of the ten mutable. The chart holds no closed figure of any kind. Uranus and Pluto were the two retrograde planets. The record says Clift brought method acting to the screen slightly before Brando, and that a car crash in 1956 rebuilt his face and the second half of his career is often called the longest suicide in Hollywood.

Saturn sits a fifth of a turn from Pluto at just over a degree, and the reading is durable strength, glossed as rebuilding after loss and as authority that has genuinely been earned. The record's own verb for what the crash did to his face is rebuilt. That is the same word in both places and no connection at all between them, because the reading was written about character and the record is describing reconstructive surgery. It is named here so a reader does not have to wonder whether it was noticed.

The phrase in the record's last clause is something other people said, and the record marks it as such with the words is often called. A chart has nothing to contribute to a critical commonplace about an actor's decline, and the contact a reader would reach for is Mars at an awkward angle to Neptune at under nine tenths of a degree, will without direction, glossed as anger that goes underground rather than out. That is the reading most open to misuse here and it is declined on exactly that ground.

His Moon sits on the twenty ninth degree of Sagittarius at noon with Capricorn still possible, so it is left out, and the two closest contacts in the chart go with it. Venus sits a fifth of a turn from Jupiter at three fifths of a degree, ease and goodwill, which the record does not test. He died in New York on 23 July 1966, at forty five. That sky is unusually crowded: eight contacts came inside seven tenths of a degree and four of them landed on his natal Mercury, the closest being Uranus sixty degrees from it at sixteen hundredths. A busy sky is a function of how many bodies are moving and not a verdict on the day. The Moon was a crescent at thirty seven per cent.