Queen Victoria

Her birth time is recorded and rated, which most records in this set do not have, so the houses and the rising sign can be used here instead of left out. She was born at a quarter past four in the morning in London, with Gemini rising. Mutable signs take six of her ten planets, fire four, air three, water two and a single one earth. The record calls Victoria the monarch whose reign named an age, and says she died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight after sixty three years on the throne.

The Sun sits on the third degree of Gemini and the Moon on the fourth, conjunct at just over a degree and a half, so she was born close to a new moon with both lights in the sign that is not sure what it feels until it has heard itself say so. Both sit in the twelfth house, and so do Mercury, Venus and Mars: five of the ten planets in the house of what is kept out of view, in the chart of somebody whose record is sixty three years of being looked at. Gemini rises as well, which puts that sign in three places at once.

Jupiter sits alone in the tenth house at seventeen degrees of Aquarius, the only planet in the part of the chart that deals with standing in public, and Mars sits sixty degrees from it at three quarters of a degree, effort that pays and well timed action. Saturn sits square Neptune at three quarters, pressure against something that will not hold a shape. Mercury sits in hard contact with Uranus at just over half a degree. Uranus and Neptune were the two retrograde planets.

She died on 22 January 1901, at eighty one. The Sun stood in easy contact with its own natal degree at three hundredths of a degree that day, the closest thing in that sky, with Mercury, the ruler of her Gemini Sun, at the same angle to it at four tenths. The Sun was in Aquarius against her natal Gemini, air answering air. The Moon was new and six per cent lit, which is the phase that starts things without waiting to see the whole of them.