Agnes Obel

Water accounts for four of her ten planets, air three, fire two and earth a single one. Water registers before it decides and air works out what to say; the element that would hold any of it to a fixed shape is nearly absent. Obel is a Danish singer and a pianist, and the record gives both without separating them.

The Sun, Mercury and Uranus sit across nineteen degrees of Scorpio, and Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto group across twenty two degrees of Libra. Scorpio withholds and Libra weighs. For a musician who both sings and plays, identity and speech in the withholding sign with scale, limit and force all in the weighing one describes work made privately and then balanced rather than delivered.

Nothing in this chart sits inside half a degree of exact, which makes it an unhurried birth with no single pressure point in it. Mars makes an easy skill of its contact with Jupiter at just over half, the closest thing here, and the Sun sits in mild friction with Neptune at three fifths. Mercury alone was retrograde at her birth, which turns the speaking half inward before any of it is given out, and in a songwriter that is the detail that fits.

Jupiter came the whole way round to its Libra starting point on 10 September 2016, at thirty five. Libra holds two readings at once, so what it wants to know is which one the work settled on, and two circuits precede it. For a musician whose record names singing and the piano and nothing else, which reading was chosen is a more useful question than any measure of distance. A Moon in Cancer against a Scorpio Sun puts both halves of this chart in water, which is where the restraint comes from rather than from the single planet in earth.