Joss Stone

Fire accounts for four of her ten planets, water three, earth two and air a single one, and six of the ten sit in mutable signs against one that is fixed. Fire moves and mutable adapts; almost nothing here holds a position. The record says Stone is an English singer who was signed at sixteen.

The Sun sits at twenty one degrees of Aries with Jupiter further back in the sign at ten, and the Moon answers from Virgo at nineteen. Aries is most recognisable when it has something to push against; a Virgo Moon settles by finding a task and worries as a form of care. Mercury and Venus sit together in Pisces, which keeps no edge of its own. For a singer whose working life began before she was grown, an Aries Sun and a Virgo Moon describe the two halves of that: the part that went first and the part that kept the room tidy afterwards.

The Sun sits in easy contact with Saturn three hundredths of a degree from exact, which is as close as this project has found a pair, and it reads as structure supporting the self rather than restraining it: competence, and responsibility arriving early. In a record that has her signed at sixteen, there is no contact in the chart that fits better. A T-square holds the Moon, Venus and Saturn with no outlet, so that same Saturn is braced between private feeling and taste. Jupiter lies at an awkward angle to Pluto at half a degree. Four of the ten planets were retrograde, all of them from Saturn outwards.

Jupiter came back round to its Aries birth degree on 18 February 2023, at thirty five, and two laps precede it. Aries measures a thing from the moment it began, which for a career that began at sixteen is a measurement with a very long run up to it. One planet in air, with six of the ten mutable, describes somebody who adapts rather than argues. The Sun held three hundredths of a degree from Saturn is what to take from this chart, and it is the least dramatic and most useful thing in it.