Lea Salonga

Lea Salonga is a Filipino singer. She sang for two Disney princesses.

Born on 22 February 1971 in Manila, she has the Sun at the second degree of Pisces, squared by Neptune to within a sixth of a degree. That is one of the tightest aspects in any chart written here, and it is the self obscured: difficulty making out your own outline, a sense of being hard to see directly. Usually that counts as a problem. In her case it doubles as a job description. An enormous number of people have heard her voice and would not recognise her in the street, because the voice was arriving out of somebody else's face.

Her Moon, in Capricorn, is caught by Neptune at almost exactly the same distance, so both lights are bound to the same planet. Neptune dissolves outlines, and it is the planet of film and music and everything else that works by not being literal. A chart with the Sun and the Moon both tied to it belongs to somebody whose medium is atmosphere rather than argument, and whose own edges are the price of the gift.

Against that sits Venus in easy contact with Mars, which is warmth, creative energy and an uncomplicated relationship with wanting things, and four planets in earth, which is the part that turns up, learns the part and hits the note on the night. Singing for a living is mostly that, and almost none of it happens in front of anybody: the hours in a booth, the same phrase taken forty times, a voice looked after like an instrument because that is what it is. The chart is not vague at all. Only the outline is.

A voice outlasts a face. A chart whose outline is this soft tends to be remembered for what it made rather than for how it looked making it, and that is not the consolation prize it sounds like. The work is being recognised as hers rather than as the characters' now, by a generation that grew up knowing both.