Jeff Tweedy

Earth holds six of his ten planets, with two apiece in fire and water and not one in air. Earth builds and keeps at it; the element that would talk the thing over is missing from the chart entirely. Tweedy writes songs, and the record names Wilco.

Five planets sit in Virgo across twenty one degrees of it: the Sun on the second degree, Mercury on the third, Venus on the eighth, Pluto at nineteen and Uranus at twenty three. The Sun sits conjunct Mercury at just over a degree, which puts identity and thinking in the same place in the sign that wants the job done properly. His Moon sits on the fourth degree of Taurus at noon and this chart cannot rule out Aries, leaving the private half open between needing the basics in place and going at the thing without waiting.

Venus and Mars sit a fifth of the circle apart at fifteen hundredths of a degree, the closest contact in the chart and the angle of a knack rather than a gift. Mars sits sixty degrees from Pluto at half a degree, an opening onto concentrated force that has to be taken up, and square Jupiter at just over a degree. Venus and Saturn were the two retrograde planets, so taste and limit both face backwards while the five in Virgo run forward. For a songwriter, taste turned inward alongside a knack that close is the arrangement the catalogue comes out of.

Saturn came back to its Aries birth degree on 30 September 2026, at fifty nine, a second return rather than a first, with Jupiter closing its own lap the day before on 29 September. Aries holds the beginning of a thing, so a return there asks whether the start was ever properly built on, and for a record that names one band and nothing beside it, the building is the whole of the answer. Six planets in earth with none in air is what to take from this chart, and five of them crowded into Virgo is where the carefulness comes from rather than from anything that needed discussing.