Pete Buttigieg

Air takes five of his ten planets, with two apiece in fire and water and a single one in earth, and four of the ten are cardinal against four fixed. Venus alone was retrograde. The record calls Buttigieg an American politician and the first openly gay cabinet secretary.

Mars sits a fifth of the circle from Neptune at an orb of zero, exact to the arcminute, which is the tightest kind of contact this project finds. The reading is effort with imagination behind it: action that benefits from feel rather than from force, and the sort of timing that cannot be worked out on paper. In a record whose content is holding office, that is a more interesting contact than any of the hard ones would have been.

The Sun sits on the last degree of Capricorn, almost out of the sign built on competence and on having actually done the thing, and Mars, Saturn and Pluto fill thirteen degrees of Libra, which is worked out in relation to other people. His Moon sits on the last degree of Scorpio at noon and may by then have moved on into Sagittarius, which costs this chart its two closest remaining contacts, so neither is used. Venus sits sixty degrees from Uranus at just under a degree and a half, independent affection and unconventional arrangements that work. A politician holding a cabinet office works in exactly that sign's territory, and the record gives him the office rather than the term.

Jupiter came back to its Scorpio birth degree on 18 November 2017, at thirty five, and two laps precede it. Scorpio does not let go of a thing once it has committed to it, and a return there asks what is still being held, which for a record naming a first rather than a tenure is a question about what the first was for. Drive wired to imagination at an orb of zero, with one planet in earth, is what this chart comes down to.