J. Cole

Four of his ten planets sit in earth signs, four in water, and one each in fire and air. Earth builds and water takes note; the elements that would force a thing or argue it out are down to a planet apiece. The record says Cole went platinum with no featured guests and went back to his old neighbourhood to buy the house.

The Sun sits at eight degrees of Aquarius and the Moon on the first degree of Taurus, or Aries a few hours earlier. Aquarius stands outside the arrangement and does it its own way; Taurus holds on to what it has. Those two placements are almost exactly the two facts the record gives: a record made without the usual guests, and a return to the house he grew up in. Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune group across twenty five degrees of Capricorn.

Mars sits conjunct Venus at two thirds of a degree and makes easy contact with Saturn at nine tenths, so drive, taste and the planet of discipline are all on workable terms. The Sun makes an easy skill of its contact with that same Saturn at under half. Not one of his ten planets was retrograde at his birth, so nothing in this chart was quietly reconsidering anything, which in somebody who records alone is worth noting.

Jupiter closed a full circuit on its Capricorn birth degree on 9 December 2020, at thirty five, and two circuits precede it. Capricorn asks what it cost to do a thing that way, and for a rapper whose record names an album made without the usual help, the cost is the point rather than a complaint. Four planets in earth and four in water, with one apiece in fire and air, is a chart with no appetite for argument and a great deal of patience.