Anthony Kiedis

Anthony Kiedis has sung for the Red Hot Chili Peppers for four decades, in a band whose line-up and sound have both changed repeatedly around him.

He was born at Grand Rapids on 1 November 1962 with the Sun, Venus and Neptune grouped in Scorpio. Scorpio does nothing by halves, and having taste and the planet of dissolution in there with the Sun is a heavy, glamorous, uncomfortable arrangement: identity, what he wants and what blurs the edges, all in the most concentrated sign there is. Four of the ten planets are in water.

The structure is a T-square across the Sun, Mars and Saturn. Two planets facing each other and the Sun pulling at right angles, with nowhere for the pressure to resolve. Mars is drive and Saturn is the immovable rule, and having identity caught between them describes somebody for whom wanting a thing and being stopped from having it are the same experience, repeated. In a performer whose subject has always been appetite and its cost, that configuration is the subject.

His Moon makes a quiet contact with Venus ten minutes of arc apart, the closest aspect he has, and an awkward one with Mars. Feeling and affection fused, with drive out of step: warmth that is genuine and aggression that interrupts it, which is a fair account of a frontman whose band has lost and replaced members around him for forty years.

Saturn sits awkwardly against Uranus by three fifths of a degree, so the rule and the break are unresolved too, and a band that has survived that many ruptures without changing its singer is where the tension went.

Forty years of one band, through every sort of upheaval, is what a T-square does when somebody refuses to let it resolve by leaving. His Jupiter return came in January 2022, at fifty nine, a year after Saturn finished its own lap, and the two planets his Sun has always been caught between closed their circuits within twelve months of each other.