Josh Groban

Five of his planets sit in air signs and not one sits in earth, with three in fire and two in water. Air works out how a thing is constructed and fire performs it; nothing here settles into a fixed form. Groban sings classical crossover, which is a category invented to describe singers who belong to neither side of it and are judged by both.

The Sun sits at nine degrees of Pisces with Mars further along the same sign, while the Moon, Uranus and Neptune group across twenty five degrees of Sagittarius. Pisces takes the shape of whatever it enters and Sagittarius heads outward without checking. For a singer whose whole position is between two traditions rather than inside either, having no earth and a Pisces Sun is a plain description of why that was possible.

Jupiter sits conjunct Saturn at under a fifth of a degree, scale and limit fused into a single position in Libra with Pluto in the sign as well. That pairing is unusual to find that tight, and it describes somebody for whom ambition and restraint arrive as one thought rather than two competing ones. The Sun is at a hard angle to Pluto at a tenth of a degree, the smallest separation in the chart.

Jupiter shut its lap in Libra on 19 October 2016, at thirty five, in reverse as it was originally. Libra weighs one thing against another and refuses to close either down, which for a career built on occupying the space between two audiences is the measure already in use. Three circuits come before it, and the crossover position was established well inside the second. Four of the ten planets were running backwards at his birth, Mercury among them, which turns the deciding inward and fits somebody who occupies a category nobody else was asking for.