Sara Seager

Water takes four of her ten planets, air three, fire two and a single one earth, with four of the ten cardinal. The Sun, Moon and Venus sit inside ten degrees of Cancer, so identity, need and taste are all in one sign. The record calls Seager a Canadian American astronomer working on the atmospheres of planets outside our solar system.

Three planets in one sign is the place to start, and which three they are matters more than the count. Cancer looks after what it belongs to and does not argue the point, and having the Sun, the Moon and Venus in it puts who somebody is, what they need and what they like into a single register with nothing left over to contradict any of it. The Sun sits on the last two degrees of Cancer, so it is also a planet on a threshold.

The Sun sits a fifth of a turn from Uranus at three tenths of a degree, the closest contact here, and the reading is independence without a fight: people who are unusual and untroubled by being unusual, and sudden opportunities that suit them. For an astronomer whose subject is the air around planets nobody has been to, being untroubled by an unusual position is a fair thing for a chart to be right about, and it is also the sort of reading that flatters almost anybody who has a job. The Sun also sits sixty degrees from Pluto at three quarters of a degree, power that is usable rather than overwhelming: resilience, and the ability to start again after a loss.

Venus sits in mild friction with Saturn at half a degree, warmth meeting a wall: feeling unworthy, delay or coldness in affection, and withholding first in order not to be refused. The Moon sits in mild friction with that same Saturn at just over a degree, need meeting refusal: difficulty asking for anything, and being far more self-sufficient than was ever wanted. Two separate contacts running from the Cancer group to the same planet of limit are the harder half of this chart, and a record that gives a nationality and a research subject has nothing in it to test either of them against. Her Moon's sign is certain at twenty degrees of Cancer. Mars, Jupiter and Neptune were the three retrograde planets. Jupiter came back to its Scorpio birth degree on 23 October 2018, at forty seven, and three laps precede it.