Julian Casablancas

Julian Casablancas made Is This It with The Strokes in 2001, the record generally credited with restarting guitar bands, and he has spent the quarter century since being measured against it.

He was born in New York on 23 August 1978 with the Sun nine minutes of arc into Virgo. Nine minutes is about four hours of movement: he is a Virgo by the narrowest margin available, with Leo immediately behind him, and since the hour was never written down even that is not quite settled. It is a fitting place for the Sun of somebody whose band was received as both the most stylish thing in New York and the most studiedly unbothered. Leo wants the room. Virgo wants the thing done properly and is embarrassed by wanting the room at all.

Venus, Mars and Pluto sit together in Libra inside four degrees, an unusually tight group and the real engine of the chart. Venus is taste, Mars is drive, Pluto is pressure, and having all three fused in the sign of style and relation describes somebody for whom aesthetics are not decoration but the entire argument. A record whose influence was mostly a matter of how it sounded rather than what it said comes out of that configuration more naturally than out of most.

The Sun is in hard contact with both Pluto and Venus, under a degree in each case, and makes a creative angle to Uranus. Identity under pressure from the thing it values, with an original streak attached. That is a reasonable account of a career spent trying to be something other than the man who made one famous album at twenty two, and of the particular irritation of having succeeded at the start.

His Jupiter return landed on 18 June 2026, at forty seven. What a Jupiter return hands over is twelve years and no instructions, which is a pointed thing to give a chart whose standing difficulty has always been the distance between what it makes and how that gets received.