Ralph Bellamy

Air takes six of his ten planets, fire three, with a single one in water and not one in earth, and six of the ten are mutable. Air arranges everything and mutable adapts; the element that would hold a position is missing from the chart entirely. The record gives Bellamy a career of six decades and a Tony.

Five planets sit across twenty one degrees of Gemini: Mercury on the fifth degree, Pluto at twenty, Venus at twenty, Mars at twenty one and the Sun at twenty six. Gemini knows a thing and passes it on, and its cost is more beginnings than finished work. The Moon answers from Leo at eighteen, needing to be appreciated before it will settle. For an actor the record measures in decades rather than in parts, that much of the chart in the sign that adapts is the structure to start from.

Venus sits conjunct Pluto at nine hundredths of a degree, which is total attraction: relationships that transform the person, and an all or nothing approach that leaves little room for the ordinary. Saturn is in four of the six closest contacts and it was retrograde: in easy contact with Venus at under four tenths, with Pluto at under half, with Mars at just under half, and in hard contact with Neptune at half a degree. For a record of six decades of work, drive and limit on easy terms is the contact that explains the length of it.

He died at Santa Monica on 29 November 1991, at eighty seven. Mercury rules his Gemini Sun, and that day it stood in easy contact with his natal Jupiter at a fifth of a degree while the transiting Saturn sat in easy contact with that same natal Mercury at just over two degrees. Pluto stood square his natal Saturn at under a fifth of a degree, the closest contact in that sky. The Moon was at its last quarter and thirty seven per cent lit. That is the phase that rethinks the whole premise rather than the details.