Prince

Fire and air take four of his ten planets each, with a single one apiece in earth and water, and five of the ten are fixed. The elements that would build a thing or register what it cost are down to a planet each. The record calls Prince the virtuoso songwriter and performer who fused funk, rock and pop, says he was based in Minnesota, and says he died at his Paisley Park estate.

Two yods close in this chart and both share Mars and Neptune, one adding Pluto and the other Mercury. A yod does not resolve on its own terms, so two of them resting on drive and image is a chart that keeps arriving at the same unanswerable arrangement. Mars sits at an awkward angle to Pluto at just over a third of a degree inside the first of them, force against force, and the Sun sits in hard contact with that same Neptune at nine tenths, the self obscured. A performer the record credits with fusing three forms of music had to keep arriving at the same unresolved arrangement, which is what two yods on one pair describe.

Venus sits in hard contact with Saturn at a third of a degree, the closest contact here, which is warmth meeting a wall: feeling unworthy, and withholding first rather than risking a refusal. Jupiter sits sixty degrees from Saturn at nine tenths, growth that holds and a career that accumulates rather than spikes, and Saturn sits in hard contact with Uranus at the same orb, order against revolt. For a songwriter the record credits with fusing three forms of music, the Saturn contacts are the half of this chart that accounts for the discipline rather than the invention. His Moon sits at twenty nine degrees of Aquarius at noon and may have reached Pisces, so it is left out.

He died at Chanhassen on 21 April 2016, at fifty seven, and the hour is recorded, so the death chart is cast for seven minutes past ten in the morning. Mars stood in easy contact with his natal Uranus at five hundredths of a degree, the closest thing in that sky, with Saturn directly opposite his natal Sun at three fifths and the transiting Sun opposite his natal Neptune at four tenths. The record gives no cause and this chart is not being used to supply one. The Moon was gibbous and fully lit, the phase that refines, questions and improves, and rarely calls anything finished.