Dolores O'Riordan

Her ten planets divide three in fire, three in earth and three in air, with a single one in water. For a singer whose instrument was a voice people recognised in a bar, the near absence of the element that deals in feeling is the surprising half of the chart. O'Riordan was born in County Limerick in 1971, sang for The Cranberries, and died in London at forty six.

The Sun sits at thirteen degrees of Virgo with Venus and Pluto there too, putting three planets in the one that attends to the exact detail and is rarely satisfied that it is right yet. Virgo is a precision sign rather than a grand one. A voice that was identifiable inside two notes is precision rather than volume, and having taste and force stationed in the same sign is the structural account of it. The Cranberries sold records on that recognisability rather than on volume.

Mars makes easy contact with Uranus eight hundredths of a degree off exact, the tightest contact here, and Mars is also the only retrograde planet in the chart. Drive on effortless terms with the planet that breaks a pattern, while running backwards, describes somebody whose force was turned inward before it was turned out. Jupiter makes easy contact with Pluto at two fifths of a degree, and her Moon is within a degree and a half of the Aries line. For a singer whose work was made inside one band rather than alone, that is the engine the songs ran on.

She died in London on 15 January 2018. The Moon that day was balsamic and two per cent lit, a phase that finishes things and is already looking past them, and the Sun had reached Capricorn, earth, the same element as her natal Virgo, so it was a day that answered her chart in its own terms. Neptune stood opposite her natal Sun within a degree. Neptune is the planet that dissolves an outline, and the Sun is the outline it was standing against.