Kirk Hammett

Water takes five of his ten planets, fire two, earth two and air a single one. Water registers everything before deciding anything; the element that would stand back and talk it over is nearly absent. Hammett is an American guitarist and the record names Metallica.

The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune sit across twelve degrees of Scorpio, four planets in the sign that commits totally and explains nothing, and the Moon answers from Leo at twenty three. Scorpio holds the thing and Leo performs it. For a guitarist in a band whose form is built on force, four planets in the withholding sign and a Leo Moon is the division between what the playing sounds like and what it is actually made of.

Venus sits square Mars at over four fifths of a degree, taste braced against drive, and makes an easy skill of its contact with Uranus at three fifths. The Moon sits square Mercury at nine tenths, private feeling against speech. Venus, retrograde at his birth, is the one planet facing the other way, which turns taste inward in a chart where everything else runs forward. Nothing here forms a named pattern.

Jupiter came the whole way round to its Pisces starting point on 15 January 2022, at fifty nine, eleven months after Saturn had closed its own second lap. Pisces will not hold an edge, so the question becomes how much came in with it, and four circuits precede it. For somebody whose record names one band and a working life spent inside it, how much came in is the generous question. Five planets in water, in a guitarist known for volume, is the reading nobody would predict from the records. His Sun on the twenty sixth degree of Scorpio sits at the far end of the withholding sign with Mercury and Venus behind it, so the speaking and valuing halves are both in there with it. With a single planet in air, none of that was ever going to be explained from the stage.