Clairo

Four of her planets sit in fire signs and only one in earth, along leaving three in water and two in air. Fire asserts and water absorbs; there is almost nothing that grounds either. Clairo recorded the song that made her name on a laptop and has released three albums since, which is a career that started with no studio, no label and no permission, and then had to be turned into an actual body of work.

The Sun sits at twenty six degrees of Leo with Mercury and Venus in the same sign, so three planets in the one that works where it can be seen. The Moon answers from Cancer, which keeps everything and would rather not be looked at. A performer who became visible through a video made alone in a bedroom has both of those in play at once, and the tension between them is more interesting than either on its own.

Five of them were running backwards at her birth, Mercury among them, which is half the chart facing inward. The Sun lies at an awkward angle to Jupiter at just under a degree, the tightest contact here, so identity and the planet of scale never quite line up. For somebody whose reach arrived faster than the work behind it, that is a precise description rather than a complaint. For a career that arrived before the catalogue existed, a chart where reach and identity never quite align is an accurate description rather than a complaint.

Jupiter closed a twelve year circuit on 23 April 2022, back where it began in Pisces, at twenty three. That is only the second lap her chart has run, and Pisces dissolves an edge rather than holding one, so the question is how much was taken on rather than how far it went. Three albums into a career that began by accident is a reasonable answer at that age, and Leo would point out that none of them were made quietly.