Rita Hayworth

Not one of her ten planets sits in an earth sign. Air takes four, with three apiece in fire and water, and five of the ten are cardinal. The Sun, Mercury and Venus spread across eleven degrees of Libra, and her Moon's sign is certain at twenty two degrees of Pisces. Uranus and Pluto were the two retrograde planets. The record says Gilda made Hayworth the defining pin-up of the 1940s, that she said men went to bed with Gilda and woke up with her, and that her Alzheimer's diagnosis in 1980 did much to make the disease public.

That middle fact is a quotation, and it does the work this entire project is built on better than the project usually manages. Gilda was an exterior: a part, a poster and other people's expectations. She was an interior. A chart only ever describes the second of those, and her sentence is the distinction stated by the one person entitled to state it. The site's reading of a Libra Sun arrives at the same place more clumsily, calling it an identity worked out in relation to other people rather than in isolation, with a difficulty knowing what one wants when nobody else is in the room.

The Sun sits in easy contact with Uranus at under half a degree and Mars a fifth of a turn from that same Uranus at a quarter, which between them give independence without a fight, sudden opportunities that suit them, and quick reflexes. The record argues with the middle one. The opportunity in her record is a part that made her famous and then stood between her and everybody who had seen it, which is an opportunity that did not suit the person it arrived for, and she is the source for that rather than this entry.

Her diagnosis in 1980 is the record's last fact, and nothing in ten planets contains a disease, predicted one or bears on one. What the record does say about it is that making it public helped, which is a fact about other people again. No planet at all in earth is a count worth a line and no conclusion. She died in New York on 14 May 1987, at sixty eight. Three contacts that day landed on her natal Saturn, the closest being Mars sixty degrees from it at two hundredths of a degree, with Uranus in easy contact at just over a fifth. The Moon was full and ninety eight per cent lit.