Anna Netrebko

Seven of her ten planets sit in mutable signs, with two cardinal and only one fixed, and not one of the ten sits in water. Earth and air take four each with two in fire. The Sun, Moon, Mercury and Pluto spread across twenty degrees of Virgo. Nothing in this chart was retrograde. The record calls Netrebko a Russian soprano and one of the most recorded of her era.

Venus sits sixty degrees from Neptune at one hundredth of a degree, which is about as exact as a contact comes, and the reading printed for it is compassionate love: generosity in relationships, and a real gift for beauty, colour and music. Those last three words, arriving at a hundredth of a degree in the chart of a soprano, are as close as a reading gets to naming somebody's trade out loud. The reading was written for every chart that carries the angle, and it would have said gift for music about an accountant.

Neptune is in four of the six closest contacts here, which is the structural version of the same point. Mars sits a fifth of a turn from it at a quarter of a degree, effort with imagination behind it, and that reading names dance and music in its own words too. Jupiter sits conjunct it at a quarter of a degree, boundless belief, both of them on the first degree of Sagittarius. Venus sits sixty degrees from that Jupiter at the same orb, ease and goodwill, which is social luck and a genuine capacity for enjoyment. Four contacts inside a third of a degree, every one of them involving the planet a reader will be told is the musical one, in a working singer, is a coincidence worth printing at length and then leaving exactly where it is.

No water at all is the count that pulls the other way. Water is the element of what is felt rather than what is said or done, and its absence in an opera singer is the kind of balance a reader will want to argue with, which is fair enough: four planets in Virgo and a Moon certain at eleven degrees of it describe somebody who settles a feeling by finding a task, and that is not at all the same as not having one. Pluto sits on the last degree of Virgo and Venus on the first of Libra, so two planets here sit on a threshold. Jupiter came back to its Sagittarius birth degree on 12 November 2018, at forty seven, and three laps precede it.