Pope Francis

Earth holds four of his ten planets, air three, water two and a single one fire. Earth builds and keeps at it; the element that would charge at a thing is down to one planet, which in the record of a man who took the oldest job in his church is the detail to notice first. The record says Francis was the first pope from the Americas and the first Jesuit, and that he lived in a guesthouse rather than the apostolic palace.

The Sun sits at twenty six degrees of Sagittarius, built around the pursuit of something larger, with Mercury and Jupiter together in Capricorn behind it. The Moon sits conjunct Venus in Aquarius inside half a degree, which makes comfort and pleasure the same thing and carries a real reluctance to be the one causing discomfort. Aquarius handles a feeling by stepping back from it. For a man who chose the guesthouse, a Moon and Venus welded together in the sign that keeps its distance is a more useful pairing than anything else in the chart. For a record whose three facts are two firsts and a choice of address, a Moon and Venus that would rather not cause discomfort is the pairing to keep.

Both halves of that pair are squared by Uranus, Venus at just over a degree and a quarter and the Moon at just under one and three quarters, so warmth and comfort are answered by the planet that will not keep to an arrangement. Mars sits in quiet contact with Neptune at a third of a degree, effort with imagination behind it rather than force. Jupiter sits seventy two degrees from Saturn at just over a degree, growth that holds rather than spikes. Only Uranus and Pluto were moving backwards. In a career spent inside an institution, warmth answered by the planet that will not keep to an arrangement is the contact that explains the guesthouse.

He died in Vatican City on 21 April 2025, at eighty eight. Jupiter rules his Sagittarius Sun, and that day it stood in easy contact with his natal Mars at two tenths of a degree and square his natal Neptune at half. Saturn and Venus both stood square his natal Sun, at just over a degree and at four tenths. The Moon had come back to its own birth degree within two degrees that day, and it was at its last quarter and forty six per cent lit, a phase that rethinks the whole premise rather than the details. One planet in fire, in a record whose three facts are all firsts and a refusal of the palace, is the fact to keep.