Lil Yachty

Lil Yachty made his name on Lil Boat and then released a psychedelic rock album nobody had predicted, which is the kind of move that either ends a career or proves there was one.

He was born at Mableton on 23 August 1997 with the Sun thirty two minutes of arc into Virgo, the narrowest possible Virgo with Leo immediately behind it, and since the hour was never recorded even that is not quite settled. A Sun on the first degree of a sign reads as the sign still arriving, and Virgo arriving is the instinct to do a thing properly before knowing what the thing is.

The chart's loudest feature is Mars square Uranus, four minutes of arc from exact, which is about as close as that pair comes. Mars is drive and Uranus is the refusal to be the same as last time, and at right angles they produce somebody who changes direction abruptly and is not available to be talked out of it. A genre switch that baffled the audience is not a surprise on this chart. It is the chart's single most exact statement about itself.

Five of his ten planets are retrograde, including Saturn, Jupiter and Mercury, which gives the whole arrangement a private, inside-out quality: things get worked out in an order that is not visible from outside, and explanations arrive after decisions rather than before. Four planets sit in earth with only one in water, so the chart is more practical and less bruisable than the music's reputation suggests.

His Jupiter return fell in February 2021, at twenty three, and the twelve years it opened are the ones the reinvention happened inside. What the signs point to from here is not consolidation. On a chart whose tightest aspect is Mars against Uranus, the next move being unpredictable is the most predictable thing about it.