David Banner

Four of his ten planets sit in fire signs, four in air, two in water and not one in earth. Earth is the element that holds a position and builds on it, and the chart of a man the record credits with organising relief after Hurricane Katrina has none of it at all. Banner raps and produces, and the record names Like a Pimp.

The Sun sits at twenty one degrees of Aries with Mercury on the first six minutes of the same sign, and the Moon answers from Sagittarius. Aries begins things and will not wait to be asked; Sagittarius heads out and keeps going. Saturn sits on the final thirty five minutes of Gemini. For somebody whose second entry in the record is a response to a disaster rather than a record, two fire placements and no earth describes the kind of person who moves first and works out the logistics afterwards.

Venus is held at an awkward angle to Pluto at a sixth of a degree, taste permanently just out of true with concentrated force, and Mercury sits square Saturn at just over two thirds. Mars makes easy contact with Uranus at just over a degree. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were the three retrograde planets at his birth, and nothing here forms a named pattern to hold any of it together. In a rapper whose second entry is a relief effort, taste out of true with force is the friction that gets somebody moving.

Jupiter closed a full circuit on its Pisces birth degree on 2 February 2022, at forty seven, and three circuits precede it. Pisces will not hold a shape, which makes the question what a thing turned into once it left your hands. For a record that names a song and a relief effort in the same breath, that is the fairer of the two questions. Four planets in fire with none in earth is the chart of somebody who starts and leaves the keeping to other people.