Amanda Gorman

Not one of her ten planets sits in an earth sign, water takes four, fire and air three each, and nothing in this chart was retrograde at her birth. The element that would make a plan and count its cost is absent, and all of the rest faces forward. The record calls Gorman an American poet who read at Joe Biden's inauguration at twenty two.

Two contacts here sit inside five hundredths of a degree, which is remarkable wiring for one birth. The Sun sits at seventeen degrees of Pisces and the Moon in easy contact with it at seventeen of Cancer, four hundredths of a degree from exact, with both signs certain. Two lights that close together in easy contact mean the self being built and the comfort required are after the same thing, which is rarer in this set than the opposite and a good deal less dramatic to write about. Venus sits sixty degrees from Mars at two hundredths, desire that moves easily, and warmth with an uncomplicated relationship to wanting things. A poet reading to a national audience at twenty two needed exactly that: a self that was not arguing with itself on the morning it mattered.

For a poet who stood up in front of a national audience at twenty two, two lights in agreement at four hundredths of a degree is about the most useful thing a chart could offer. The Sun, Mercury and Jupiter fill twenty two degrees of Pisces, and Venus, Neptune and Uranus nine degrees of Aquarius. Jupiter sits square Pluto at half a degree, ambition and force colliding, and it is the one hard contact of any tightness here.

Jupiter came back to its Pisces birth degree on 2 February 2022, at twenty three, and one lap precedes it, which makes her one of the youngest figures in this set to have had a second. Pisces draws no line of its own, so a return there asks what got carried across rather than what was built, and a year after the reading the record names, that question was still open. No earth at all, with the lights agreeing almost exactly, is the fact to keep from this chart.