James Blake

Five planets of the ten sit in fire signs and three in air, with a single one apiece in earth and water. Fire moves and air arranges; the elements that would hold a position or register what it cost are down to a planet each. The record gives Blake Limit to Your Love and calls him a producer who changed what a low frequency could do in a pop song.

The Sun sits on the fourth degree of Libra with Mercury near the end of the same sign at twenty seven, and the Moon answers from Aries at thirteen. Libra works itself out in relation to other people and has difficulty knowing what it wants in an empty room; an Aries Moon arrives at full volume and is done almost at once. Saturn and Uranus sit together on the twenty seventh degree of Sagittarius. For a producer whose named work is other people's records as well as his own, a Libra Sun with a Moon that will not wait is the division that matters.

Venus sits in hard contact with Mars four hundredths of a degree from exact, about as close as the arithmetic puts a pair, taste and drive flatly disagreeing. Mercury sits sixty degrees from Saturn at two tenths of a degree and the same from Uranus at half, so thinking has an unforced opening onto both discipline and invention at once. In a producer, a mind on those terms with structure and with the unexpected is the whole of the equipment. A T-square holds the Sun, Mars and Neptune with no outlet, and Mars and Jupiter were the two retrograde planets.

Jupiter stood again on its Gemini birth degree on 21 June 2024, at thirty five, in reverse as it was at his birth, and two laps precede it. Gemini holds two accounts of one thing without choosing, which for a record naming a song of his own and a change in what everybody else could do is exactly the shape of it. Five planets in fire with one in earth describes somebody who starts things and has almost nothing in the chart that holds them still, and a Venus at four hundredths of a degree from Mars is where the friction in the work comes from.