Astro-Logical

The five Lawson siblings - Lee, Leo, Leon, Leona and Lionel - all had their horoscopes done by the famous astrologer Starr Gazer. Madame Gazer puts particular emphasis on the planets Mars and Jupiter, to which other astrologers, she believes, have not granted true importance.

On the day the Lawson siblings were due to collect their charts, Madame Gazer discovered that she had, by force of habit, labelled each of the charts with nothing more than the client's first initial and last name, without thinking of the consequences. Now she was faced with five charts identically labelled "L. Lawson", and only random recollections about her five clients. Can you help Madame Gazer by matching each Lawson with his or her occupation and the signs that contain Mars and Jupiter in his or her chart?

1. In the five charts, Mars and Jupiter were found only in the signs Aries, Capricorn, Gemini, Leo, and Scorpio; no two charts showed the same Mars sign or the same Jupiter sign, and no chart showed Mars and Jupiter in the same sign.

2. Lionel has his Mars in Scorpio.

3. The wrestler has Jupiter in Aries and Mars in Leo.

4. Neither Lee, Leo, nor Leon has any planet in Leo.

5. Lee (who has no planet in Capricorn) had argued with the sibling who has Mars in Gemini about whether Madame Gazer's fee was too high.

6. Capricorn, which is the sign that rules the teeth, is the appropriate location of the dentist's Mars.

7. Lee and the one with Jupiter in Gemini had joined forces to persuade the skeptical college professor to join them in visiting an astrologer.

8. The novelist, whose Jupiter is in Capricorn, shares an apartment with Leo.


Names: Lee, Leo, Leon, Leona, Lionel
Occupation: dentist, novelist, heavy-equipment operator, professor, wrestler
Signs in Mars: Aries, Capricorn, Gemini, Leo, Scorpio
Signs in Jupiter: Aries, Capricorn, Gemini, Leo, Scorpio