Philip Glass

Glass has no planet at all in a fire sign. Earth and water take four each and air the other two, so the element that charges at a thing and expects to be watched doing it is missing outright. The record names him the composer of Einstein on the Beach and Koyaanisqatsi, says he drove a taxi in New York into his forties, and gives Baltimore, Maryland as his birthplace.

The Sun sits at eleven degrees of Aquarius and the Moon in easy contact with it at eleven of Libra, at just over half a degree, and both signs are certain. Two lights that close together in easy contact mean the self being built and the comfort required are after the same thing, which is rarer in this set than the opposite and a good deal less dramatic to write about. In a record where the composing and the driving ran alongside each other for years, that is a more useful contact than it first looks.

Venus sits in hard contact with Mars at just under a fifth of a degree, attraction and drive disagreeing, and in easy contact with Pluto at under nine tenths, depth in relating. Mars sits sixty degrees from Jupiter at a third of a degree, effort that pays and well timed action. Saturn sits in mild friction with Uranus at two thirds, order against revolt. Neptune and Pluto were the two retrograde planets. In a composer the record has driving a taxi into his forties, drive and attraction disagreeing is the contact with the most in it.

Saturn came back to its Pisces birth degree on 24 February 2025, at eighty eight, and that is his third Saturn return, which few charts in this set are old enough to record. What a Saturn return asks each time is whether what was built will hold, and the third asking is about something already more than seventy years old. Pisces draws no line of its own, so the account arrives without an edge to measure it against. No fire at all, with the two lights in agreement, is the fact to take from this chart.