Britt Lower

Four of her ten planets sit in fire signs and four in water, with a single one in earth and a single one in air. Fire acts and water registers, and the two elements that would either hold the ground or stand back and discuss it are down to one planet apiece. Lower is an American actress and the record names Severance, a series built on one person divided into two who never meet.

The Sun, Mercury and Mars group across eighteen degrees of Leo while the Moon sits on the second degree of Pisces, directly across the chart from all of it. Leo takes the room and Pisces has no edge of its own to defend. A part written as two incompatible halves of the same person is a strange thing to find sitting opposite a chart already split that way, with everything assertive in one sign and everything porous in another.

A kite holds the Moon, Venus, Neptune and Pluto, which is an uncommon figure and the most structured thing here. The Moon makes easy contact with Pluto at a third of a degree and Venus sits directly opposite Neptune at nine tenths. Four of the ten planets were retrograde at her birth, including Mercury, which turns speech inward before any of it reaches the air. For an actress whose best known work is a part split in two, a figure that organises four planets around private feeling is the structure the performance draws on.

By 10 February 2021 Jupiter had returned to its Aquarius birth degree, at thirty five, in reverse as it was originally. Aquarius measures the distance from the expected road rather than the progress down it, and two circuits precede it. The series the record names arrived in the year after that return. Her Moon sits on the second degree of Pisces at noon and may have been in Aquarius, which leaves the private half open between dissolving into the thing and standing outside it, and the record is a part that does both.