Dave Grohl

Three planets in air, three in water, two in fire and two in earth. Nothing is scarce, which is unusual in this set and means no single instinct runs the chart. Grohl drummed in one band and then founded another and moved to the front of it, which is a change of position most musicians never make and fewer survive making.

The Sun sits at twenty four degrees of Capricorn, the sign of the long obligation and the thing seen through, while the Moon answers from Sagittarius, which is already looking at the next thing. That pairing is the structural account of somebody who started again rather than stopping, and who has now run the second band for longer than most bands last at all.

The Sun makes easy contact with Pluto at under two thirds of a degree, identity on comfortable terms with concentrated force rather than braced against it, which is a notably unburdened aspect in somebody who had to begin again in a different role entirely. The Moon makes easy contact with Jupiter at seven tenths. Uranus and Pluto were the two retrograde planets, and nothing here forms a named pattern.

On 7 October 2016 Jupiter stood again on its Libra birth degree, when he was forty seven. Libra sets one option against another and refuses to rule either out, so the planet of reach there asks what was held in balance rather than what was won. Three circuits come before it, and the move from behind a drum kit to the front of a stage sits inside the second. An even chart with no named pattern in it is the quietest possible structure, and for a career that has had to absorb a great deal it is probably the most useful. His Moon sits early in Sagittarius at noon and this chart cannot rule out Scorpio, which leaves the private half open between moving on and keeping everything.