Natalie Wood

Earth and water take four of her ten planets each and fire the other two, which leaves air with none at all, and only Jupiter was retrograde. The record calls Wood a child star who became an adult one, names Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story, and says she drowned off Catalina Island at forty three and that the case was reopened decades later.

The Sun, Mars and Pluto sit inside two and a quarter degrees at the very end of Cancer, at twenty eight, twenty nine and thirty degrees of the sign. A group that tight is unusual, and it puts identity, drive and concentrated force on what amounts to one point of the chart, in the sign built around belonging to and looking after something. Mars sits conjunct that Pluto at just under a degree, which is overwhelming force: immense stamina, a capacity for total commitment, and an intensity other people find hard to be near. She was cast as a child and again as an adult and the record names both halves, and three planets on one point is at least a figure that does not change shape.

Her Moon sits on the second degree of Taurus at noon and this chart cannot rule out Aries, so it is left out. Uranus sits seventy two degrees from Pluto at just over a quarter of a degree, and Mars at that same angle to Uranus at seven tenths, so the Cancer group reaches out to Uranus as well. Saturn sits in quiet contact with that Uranus at three fifths of a degree. With no air anywhere, there is nothing in this chart that stands back from any of it. For an actress the record places in two films and one drowning, a chart with nothing to step back with is the part worth noticing.

She died off Santa Catalina Island on 29 November 1981, at forty three. The transiting Sun stood square her natal Venus at eight hundredths of a degree that day and Uranus square her natal Jupiter at a tenth, with Saturn directly opposite its own natal degree, which is the halfway point of a Saturn cycle rather than a return. The record gives what happened and says the case was reopened; the chart is not evidence of anything and does not pretend to be. The Moon was new and nine per cent lit.