IN astrological terms Elgar was born when the sun and planets Mars and Mercury were in the zodiac sign of Gemini.

The characteristics of such configuration indicates a personality which would have been very agile, versatile, inquisitive, conversational and would have had a positive firm demeanour and the ability to succeed or to make his way in life.

He has Venus, the planet of love and relationships, Pluto, indicating power, and Jupiter, indicating expansion of the higher mind, all close together in an earthy, sensuous sign.

This combination of planets would have given him abundant creative powers and together with the three planets in Gemini would have indicated his desire to communicate his self to the outside world, according to the Sophia Trust For The Study Of Astrology.