Finneas O'Connell

Four of his planets sit in air signs, three in fire, three in earth and not one in water. The element that registers feeling before anything else is entirely absent from the chart of somebody who produces records about exactly that, which is worth sitting with rather than explaining away. O'Connell is an American musician who produces his sister's records as well as making his own.

The Sun sits at eight degrees of Leo and sits directly opposite Uranus at just under a degree. Leo wants the room and Uranus refuses the arrangement the room expects, so identity faces the planet of disruption across the chart. For a producer whose work is characterised by doing the obvious thing backwards, that opposition is the mechanism, and it sits between the part of him that performs and the part that will not conform.

Mars sits directly opposite Saturn at just under a degree as well, drive against limit, so the chart carries two oppositions on the same scale rather than one. Mercury is at a hard angle to Saturn at four fifths. Four of the ten were in retrograde motion at his birth, which keeps a substantial part of it facing inward, and nothing here forms a pattern to brace any of it. For a producer working at that scale before thirty, two oppositions and nothing holding them is a fair account of the pressure.

Jupiter came full circle to its Aquarius degree on 8 March 2021, at twenty three, which is only the second lap his chart has run. Aquarius counts distance from the expected route rather than progress along it. For somebody whose production work had by then reset what a pop record was allowed to sound like, that is an early return with an unusually large answer attached. Having no water at all while producing records built on feeling is the contradiction the chart cannot resolve, and the one worth leaving on the page rather than smoothing over.