Calum Hood

Calum Hood plays bass in 5 Seconds of Summer. Bass is the job in a band that holds the thing together without being looked at, and the record here says nothing else about him, so that and a date are what this reading has to work with.

He was born at Mount Druitt, in western Sydney, on 25 January 1996, with the Sun, Mars and Uranus grouped together in Aquarius. Aquarius builds identity on not being told, and having drive and the planet of disruption in there with the Sun describes somebody considerably more stubborn than the sign's airy reputation suggests. Three more planets sit together in Capricorn: Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune, the sign of actually having done the thing. One group in the sign that refuses instruction and one in the sign that gets on with it is a reasonable account of anybody who has stayed in the same band through the whole of their twenties.

Mercury makes an easy angle to Saturn within a quarter of a degree, which is thinking that prefers to be certain, and in a band it is the member who reads the contract. His Sun and Moon are in good contact with each other, under a degree from exact, which is a quieter thing than it sounds: what he is and what he needs are not at war, and that is the single best predictor of somebody lasting inside a group arrangement.

His Moon is at the very end of Pisces or the very start of Aries, and the hour was never written down, so this site does not choose. Either way it is in hard contact with Jupiter, half a degree off, which is emotional life meeting the planet of more: an appetite that outruns what is good for it, and the one piece of real friction in a chart that is otherwise unusually settled. In a band that has been on tour for most of his adult life, that Jupiter is the part still saying yes to another one.

His Saturn return came in March 2025, at twenty nine, which is where a thing built young gets tested, and for somebody whose entire adult working life has been one band it was the first moment an alternative was ever a real question.

What the signs point to on a chart this settled is not a departure. The Aquarius group will go on refusing to be told and the Capricorn group will go on getting the work done, and the only appetite in the chart is attached to Jupiter, which has never been the planet that suggests a last tour.