Lily-Rose Depp

Five of her planets sit in air signs and only one in earth, with two each in fire and water. Air stands outside a situation and describes it; the element that would ground any of it is nearly absent. Depp is a French American actress whose record names one series, and whose surname arrived in the trade several decades before she did, which is a particular kind of starting position.

The Sun sits at six degrees of Gemini with Mercury close beside it, so identity and speech occupy almost the same point in the sign that will not stay in one register. The Moon answers from Scorpio, which gives nothing away. That pairing describes somebody fluent and visible in public and genuinely unreadable underneath it, which is a workable arrangement for a performer and a difficult one for anybody trying to write about her.

The Moon sits square Neptune at under a fifth of a degree, private feeling against the planet of image, which in somebody whose public picture was assembled by other people before she had any say is the structural fact rather than a flourish. A T-square holds Venus, Mars and Jupiter, and Mars sits directly opposite Jupiter at four fifths. Four of them were running backwards.

Jupiter came full circle to its Aries degree on 21 April 2023, at twenty three, which is only the second lap her chart has run. Aries deals in the thing begun, so the question is what was set in motion rather than what has been completed. On a career this early that is the right question, and the chart has no earth in it to pretend otherwise. Her Moon sits at the start of Scorpio at noon, with the sign before it still possible, Libra, so even the sign that gives nothing away is not quite settled.