Alessia Cara

Her ten planets divide four in air, with two each in fire, earth and water. Air works out what is actually happening and puts it into words, which for a songwriter is most of the job before any music arrives. Cara won the Grammy given to a best new artist, an award that marks the beginning of a career rather than the shape of one, and is handed to exactly one person a year.

The Sun sits at twenty degrees of Cancer with Mercury less than half a degree away, so identity and speech occupy almost the same point in the sign that keeps what it is given and takes everything personally. The Moon, Venus and Mars group in Gemini behind them. Cancer feels it and Gemini says it quickly and moves on, which between them describe a writer whose material is private and whose delivery is conversational.

The Moon stands at a hard angle to Mercury at under a quarter of a degree and to the Sun at just over half, so the private half of this chart is slightly out of step with both the identity and the voice. That is a small, constant friction rather than a crisis, and it is the gap most songwriting actually happens in. Four planets of the ten were running backwards when she was born.

Saturn returned to where it stood in Aries at the start, on 15 April 2026, at twenty nine. A first circuit of Saturn wants to know what the first thirty years produced rather than how any of it was received at the time, and Aries, the sign of whatever is begun, is a pointed place to be asked it by somebody whose best known award was for beginning. Her Moon sits at the end of Taurus or the start of Gemini depending on an hour nobody recorded, which leaves the private half open between holding on and moving along.