Dolly Parton

Seven of the ten planets are cardinal, with two fixed and a single mutable, which is a chart that starts things and almost never revises them. Earth and air take three each, with two apiece in fire and water, and five of the ten were retrograde. The Sun sits on the last degree of Capricorn. The record says Parton wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You, founded a childhood literacy programme that has given away millions of books, and was born in a one room cabin in the Smoky Mountains.

Mars sits conjunct Saturn at just over a fifth of a degree, and the reading is controlled force: discipline, stamina, cold effectiveness, and somebody who works long past the point where other people stop. For a record holding a songbook, a charity and a one room cabin, stamina is the reading with the most evidence behind it and the least glamour in it. Both of those planets were retrograde, and so were Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

Seven cardinal planets is the structural version of the same thing. Cardinal is the mode that begins, and a chart with seven of them and one mutable planet is arranged to start rather than to adjust. A songwriter who also founded a programme posting books to children is a record of two separate starts, and the chart describes the starting rather than either result. The Sun stands at an awkward angle to Uranus at under a fifth of a degree, the urge to break out arriving at the wrong moment, which is the one contact here the record gives nothing at all to test.

Venus sits square Jupiter at under two thirds of a degree, pleasure without a brake: overindulgence, extravagance, and valuing more of something when the problem was never quantity. Landed on a performer whose public manner is deliberately excessive that looks like a hit, and it is a reading about appetite in a private life the record does not describe. The Moon sits on the twenty sixth degree of Leo at noon with Virgo still possible, so it is left out, and that costs the three tightest contacts in the chart. Jupiter came back to its Libra birth degree on 24 September 2017, at seventy one, and five laps precede it.