John Deacon

Fire holds four of his ten planets and the other six divide evenly, two apiece across earth, air and water. Nothing is scarce. Deacon played bass in one band for its entire working life and wrote one of its largest songs, which is the particular position of the member who speaks least and is responsible for more of the catalogue than anybody outside assumes.

The Sun sits at twenty six degrees of Leo with Mars at the very start of the same sign and Pluto between them, three planets spread across twenty five degrees of the sign that performs. Against that, Mercury and Venus sit in Virgo and both are retrograde. The public half is in the loudest sign available and the speaking and valuing halves are in the most self effacing one, facing inward.

Mars makes easy contact with Saturn three hundredths of a degree from exact, which is about as near exact as a pair gets: drive and discipline agreeing completely, with nothing between them. For a bass player, whose entire function is to be exactly where the rhythm requires and nowhere else, that single aspect is the whole trade. Three planets were retrograde at his birth.

Jupiter came the whole way round to its Aries starting point on 9 March 2023, at seventy one, in reverse as it was originally. Aries is concerned with the starting of things, so a return there asks what was put in motion rather than what was concluded. Six circuits precede it, a great many for one chart, and the band the record names occupied the second through the fourth. His Moon sits at the end of Pisces at noon and may have crossed into Aries, and the private half is left undecided between dissolving into the group and striking out from it, and the record suggests the first.