Florence Welch

Fire and earth take three of her ten planets each, with two apiece in air and water, and five of the ten are mutable. Jupiter and Neptune were the two retrograde planets. The record calls Welch the singer of Florence and the Machine, says Lungs and Ceremonials made a stadium act out of a chamber sound, and gives Camberwell in south London as her birthplace.

Neptune is in two of the four closest contacts and both are the half of Neptune that delivers rather than dissolves. Venus sits a fifth of the way round from it at under a quarter of a degree, which is compassionate love and a real gift for beauty, colour and music. Saturn sits in quiet contact with it at under a third, which is imagination made durable: artists who finish things, and faith that survives being examined. In a record about taking a small sound and making it carry a stadium, those two together are about as close to the job as a chart gets.

The Sun sits on the fifth degree of Virgo, built on doing something properly and being useful, and sixty degrees from Pluto at under a quarter of a degree, which is power that is usable rather than overwhelming. The Moon answers from Gemini at seventeen and its sign is certain, which matters because a T-square closes on that Moon with Jupiter and Uranus and would otherwise be unusable. Jupiter sits in hard contact with Pluto at half a degree. A singer the record credits with two albums and a change of scale needs a certain Moon more than most, and this is one of the charts that has one.

Jupiter came back to its Pisces birth degree on 24 March 2022, at thirty five, and two laps precede it. Pisces draws no line of its own, so a return there asks what was carried across rather than what was built, and in a record naming two albums and a change of scale the answer is the sound itself. Two Neptune contacts inside a third of a degree, in a musician, is what to take from this chart.