Sergei Rachmaninoff

Of his ten planets, five sit in fire signs, two in earth, two in air and a single one in water. Fire moves first and the element that would sit with how a thing feels is nearly absent, which is not the distribution anybody would predict for Rachmaninoff, who wrote the second piano concerto. The record says he wrote nothing for three years after the critics destroyed his first symphony.

The Sun, Mercury and Neptune sit across fourteen degrees of Aries, three planets in the sign that begins things and will not wait, and the Moon answers from the start of Gemini. Aries starts and Gemini holds two accounts of the same event. For a man whose record is a public failure, a silence, and then a return with the piece everybody knows, those two signs describe the beginning and the reconsidering of it.

Saturn sits directly opposite Uranus at two fifths of a degree, the planet of limit against the planet that breaks the arrangement, with the chart's full width between them. In somebody stopped dead by criticism who then wrote his way out of it, that single opposition is close to a complete account. Mercury sits in easy contact with Pluto at nine hundredths. Four of the ten planets were retrograde, Mercury and Mars among them.

He died at Beverly Hills on 28 March 1943, four days before his seventieth birthday, which is why the Sun that day stood in Aries on almost the degree it occupied when he was born. Mars rules that Sun, and it stood square its own birth position at three fifths of a degree. Uranus sat on his natal Moon within three quarters and in easy contact with his natal Saturn at a fifth. The Moon was past full and fifty three per cent lit, the phase that passes on what was worked out and needs it to land.