Paul Schrader

Cardinal takes four of his ten planets with three each fixed and mutable, and earth and air take three apiece with two each in fire and water. This chart holds no closed figure of any kind. The Sun sits on the last degree of Cancer with Saturn forty arcminutes behind it, so both of them sit on a threshold. The record calls Schrader the American writer of Taxi Driver and the director of First Reformed.

The Sun sits conjunct Saturn at two thirds of a degree, and the reading is self-definition through discipline: seriousness from a young age, achievement that is genuinely earned, and a person who finds it very hard to believe they have done enough. For a writer and director the record introduces with two films forty years apart, a reading about seriousness and about never being satisfied is the one with the most in it, and it remains a standing reading rather than anything the record confirms.

The Moon sits in hard contact with Pluto at a quarter of a degree, the closest contact here, and the standing reading runs from need turning into compulsion through to a difficult or overwhelming mother. The first half describes a temperament. The second half is a claim about a living person's family, the record contains nothing whatever about his family, and this entry is not going to print it as though it did. What can be said is that the tightest contact in the chart of a man who writes films is one about compulsion, which is a fair thing to notice and not a fact about anybody.

The Moon also sits in easy contact with Venus at under three fifths of a degree, ease with affection, which is somebody who receives care as readily as they give it, and its sign is certain at eleven degrees of Taurus. Jupiter sits in easy contact with Uranus at half a degree, fortunate change, and Mars in quiet contact with that Jupiter at the same orb, effort that pays and well timed action. Mercury alone was retrograde, on the sixteenth degree of Leo. Jupiter came back to its Libra birth degree on 17 August 2017, at seventy one, and five laps precede it. A Jupiter return opens a new twelve year chapter, and Libra asks who else was in the room, which for a record naming one film written and another directed is a reasonable question to leave a reader with.