Tupac Shakur

Five planets of the ten sit in air signs, two in fire, two in earth and a single one in water. Air sets the thing out in words, which is the working material of a rapper, and the element that would register what any of it cost is nearly absent. Shakur rapped and acted, and the record says he sold around seventy five million records, most of them after he was shot dead in Las Vegas at twenty five, with the case unsolved for twenty seven years.

The Sun, Mercury and Venus all sit in Gemini, three planets across twenty degrees of the sign that holds two accounts of one event and will not choose. The Moon sits on the third degree of Aries, or Pisces a few hours earlier. Gemini is the sign of the argument conducted with itself, and in a writer working in a form built on the stated position, identity, speech and taste all stationed there is the reading worth having.

A mystic rectangle holds the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, which is an uncommon figure and the most structured thing in this chart. Jupiter sits directly opposite Saturn at just over a degree, scale against limit, and Saturn sits opposite Neptune at a third more, with Saturn itself on the final fifteen minutes of Taurus. The Moon sits in mild friction with Mars at under half a degree. Three of the ten planets were retrograde. In a writer, scale set directly against limit is the argument the work gets made inside.

He died in Las Vegas on 13 September 1996, at twenty five. Mercury rules his Gemini Sun, and that day it stood in easy contact with his natal Jupiter five hundredths of a degree shy of exact, the closest contact in the sky. Pluto sat directly on his natal Neptune within half a degree and opposite his natal Saturn within one. The Moon was new and one per cent lit, which is the phase that starts a thing without waiting to see the whole of it, which for a record that says most of the sales came afterwards is a bleak sort of fit.