Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Four planets of the ten sit in fire signs and four in earth, with two in water and not one in air. Air is the element of the argument, the brief, the position set out and defended, and the chart of a barrister who spent decades making a case has none of it at all. That is the first thing to note about this chart, and it is not a small one.

The Sun sits on the fourth degree of Capricorn with Mercury further along the same sign, and the Moon answers from Aries. Capricorn works to a plan and expects to pay for it; Aries wants the thing begun now. Jinnah argued a constitutional case for years and then became the first governor general of the state it produced, which needed both, and the record names the thirteen months he had in the office.

The Sun sits in easy contact with Saturn at two fifths of a degree, identity and the planet of limit on comfortable terms rather than braced against each other, which in somebody whose method was patience is the aspect that fits. Jupiter stands at a strained angle to Neptune eight hundredths from exact, the tightest contact here. The Moon sits in mild friction with Saturn at just under a degree. The three slowest planets were all retrograde.

He died in Karachi on 11 September 1948, at seventy one. The Sun that day had reached Virgo, which returned it to the element of his natal Capricorn rather than setting it against it, and the Moon stood at its first quarter and sixty per cent lit. That is the phase that acts rather than waits for agreement. Mars, the planet of action, sat in easy contact with his natal Sun at just over a degree and with his natal Saturn at a degree and a half. Pluto stood square his natal Mars. For a chart with no air in it, nothing about that case was ever going to be carried by the elegance of the argument alone.