Ashton Irwin

Ashton Irwin drums for 5 Seconds of Summer, and this site already holds a summary for the band's bassist, who was born eighteen months earlier. Two members of one band is a useful test of whether a chart says anything: the lives have been almost identical and the charts are not.

He was born at Hornsby, in New South Wales, on 7 July 1994 with the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Gemini, and three yods. A yod is two planets in easy contact both pulling awkwardly at a third with no comfortable resolution, and all three of his involve the Moon. Feeling at the awkward point of three separate configurations, pulled at by Venus, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in turn, is a genuinely difficult arrangement and it is the thing that most separates him from his bandmate, whose chart is unusually settled.

Venus is the planet under pressure. It squares Pluto by a quarter of a degree and sits awkwardly against Uranus half a degree off. Taste and self-worth caught between force and disruption, which in a performer who writes about mental health rather than around it is the configuration being used rather than hidden.

Water holds four of his planets and fire only one, so the chart absorbs far more than it asserts. Four slow planets are retrograde, which keeps the processing inward and arriving late, and a drummer who writes about it openly has decided not to let that stand.

His Saturn return came in March 2024, at twenty nine, a year before the bassist's. Two men in the same band, the same tour, the same twelve months: one chart met it with everything settled and the other met it with three unresolved yods, and that difference is the only honest argument for reading a chart at all.