Angel Olsen

Fire claims four of her ten planets, air three, water two and a single one earth, and not one of the ten was retrograde at her birth. The element that would hold a position is down to one planet and nothing here faces backwards. Olsen writes songs, and the record names All Mirrors.

The Sun sits on the third degree of Aquarius with Mercury at nine, both in the sign built on not being told. Venus, Saturn and Uranus sit inside nine degrees of Sagittarius. Her Moon sits on the last seventeen minutes of Libra at noon and may have crossed into Scorpio, so the private half could be either keeping the peace or admitting nothing at all. For a songwriter the record fixes to one album, a Sun and Mercury in the detached sign over a Moon on a boundary is the structure worth keeping.

Pluto is tied to three planets here. Mars stands at an awkward angle to it nine hundredths of a degree from exact, force against force, which reads as power struggles and as situations where winning matters more than the thing being won. Mercury sits square it at a degree, thought turning compulsive. Uranus sits in mild friction with it at five hundredths, though that pair belongs to everybody born across those years. The Sun sits in mild friction with Saturn at just under half a degree, identity meeting a rule that will not move. In a songwriter, thought turning compulsive under that much pressure is where the material usually comes from.

Jupiter stood again on its Pisces birth degree on 1 April 2022, at thirty five, and two laps precede it. Pisces draws no line of its own, so a return there asks what carried over rather than what arrived, which for a songwriter is usually the better question. Drive nine hundredths of a degree from concentrated force, in a chart with nothing retrograde anywhere, is the fact to take from this: there is no internal argument here at all, and the pressure is all pointed outward.