Jay Kay

Six of his ten planets sit in earth signs, three in water, one in air and not one in fire. Earth builds and water registers; the element that would go at a thing out of appetite is missing from the chart entirely, which is unexpected in a singer working in funk. Jay Kay sings in Jamiroquai and the record names Virtual Insanity.

The Sun, Mercury and Venus sit across twenty five degrees of Capricorn, nearly filling the sign that works to a plan, and the Moon answers from Virgo at twenty two. Capricorn counts the cost and Virgo corrects the detail. Neptune sits on the final ten minutes of Scorpio. For a band whose sound depends on a groove being exactly right rather than on force, an earth heavy chart is the structure that gets it there.

Jupiter sits directly opposite Saturn four hundredths of a degree away from exact, about as close as two planets get, scale against limit with the full width of the chart between them, and the two are held in a T-square with Mercury that has no outlet. The Sun sits square Uranus at an eighth of a degree. Saturn and Pluto were the two retrograde planets at his birth. For a musician, scale set directly against limit is the argument a groove gets built inside.

Jupiter stood again on its Scorpio birth degree on 20 October 2017, at forty seven, and three laps precede it. Scorpio asks what was kept out of the mix, which for a musician is a more useful question than any measure of reach. Six planets in earth with none in fire is what to take from this chart, and it puts the energy in the arrangement rather than in the temperament of the person making it. His Moon in Virgo is the placement that checks the groove, and it sits well clear of the Capricorn group that built it. With one planet in air, none of this was ever a matter of explaining the method to anybody.