Davido

A single planet out of ten sits in a fire sign, with three each in earth, air and water. Fire is the element that simply begins, and a chart with almost none of it takes its momentum from somewhere else. Davido was born in Atlanta and is Nigerian on the record, and the genre he works in moved from a regional market to a global one across his working life, which is a career that changed scale underneath the person having it.

The Sun is twenty two minutes of arc from the end of Scorpio, so the sign cannot be settled without a birth hour: Scorpio or Sagittarius, and no two neighbouring signs are less alike than those. The Moon sits on the same kind of line, Libra at noon or Scorpio later in the day. A singer whose records travel may have the Sun in the sign that goes everywhere or the sign that gives nothing away, and the chart genuinely does not say which.

Jupiter is in hard contact with Pluto six hundredths of a degree off exact, the closest any two planets come in it: scale against concentrated power, which for an artist in a genre that grew that fast is a structural fact rather than a personal one. The Sun sits conjunct Mercury at half a degree and Mercury is the only retrograde planet in the chart, so identity and speech are fused and the speech half is the one running backwards. Both sit at awkward angles to Uranus.

Saturn completed a lap and stood again on its opening degree in Aquarius on 10 January 2022, at twenty nine. Aquarius stands for the thing done differently, and a first Saturn return asks what the preceding thirty years actually built rather than how it was received at the time. For a singer in a genre that was a local concern at the start of that lap and inescapable by the end of it, two timelines ran alongside each other.