Sometime around 1650, the astrologer John Gad‐bury cast a horoscope for John Milton, but we now have only the chart without any interpretation that Gadbury might have rendered.1With the help of the same kind of astrological texts available to Gadbury, I propose to interpret Milton's natal chart in the way that a Renaissance astrologer might.2Fortunately, I have the great advantage of hindsight, which shall play no small part in my “prediction” of what the future holds for John M